You are given two players who look to have nothing in common, and asked to link them through teammates. Two players who were in the same squad in the same season are one link apart. Usually you need two or three, routed through a journeyman nobody thinks of until the moment they do. TransferChain rewards a very particular kind of football memory: not who was great, but who went where, and when.
🔗 Play TransferChain →Two players appear at either end of an empty chain. You fill the gap one player at a time: each player you add must have been in the same squad, in the same season, as the last one in your chain. Par is the fewest links possible, and matching it is a perfect game. The squads are those of the clubs in the 2025/26 top five leagues, for 2018/19 to 2021/22 and 2025/26.
A player with eight clubs is worth more to you than a legend with one. Careers that wandered are the connective tissue of almost every chain.
Squads with heavy turnover touch hundreds of careers. Routing through a club that signs and sells constantly beats routing through a settled one.
Sharing a club is not enough: the two must have been in its squad in the same season. A club's 2020/21 squad and its 2025/26 squad are different bridges.
A well-travelled career opens far more routes than a one-club legend does, so work outwards from whichever player has moved most.
A football puzzle where you connect two players through a chain of teammates, using the squads of the clubs in the 2025/26 top five European leagues.
Yes. Every pairing is checked to be solvable before it is served — though there is often more than one valid route, and finding a shorter chain is its own satisfaction.
2018/19 to 2021/22, and 2025/26. Two players who were teammates only in another season are not linked yet.
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