Lineup Legends

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Lineup Legends

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Lineup Legends — eleven countries, eleven players who have retired

Every day eleven countries line up and you pick one legend from each for the eleven slots of a 4-3-3. Only players who have hung up their boots count — and that is not our guess: it means a career that our database has closed for ten years or more. The slot comes from the position: once a position is full, a country that only has players there is left without a place. Free, no sign-up, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

How to play Lineup Legends

Lineup Legends is Lineup with one restriction: retired players only. Every day eleven countries line up — the same for the whole world — and you field one legend from each into the eleven slots of a 4-3-3.

The rules, in 30 seconds

  1. See the queue. The eleven countries appear in the order they will be played.
  2. Name a legend from the current country. Any player from that country who has stopped playing counts.
  3. The slot comes from the position, and each slot takes one player.
  4. With no slot left, the country stays empty — and the score is how many of the eleven you filled.

The legend criterion, declared

"Legend" here is not an opinion: it is a player whose career our database closes ten years ago or more. His last recorded spell ended by 2016, and no spell of his is open.

The ten-year cut has a measured reason: the data source often omits the end of a career, and deciding by elimination ends up calling retired someone who still plays. Against the 702 players we curated by hand, the one-year cut makes mistakes — active names would get in — and the ten-year cut makes none. Whoever stayed undefined is left out: better a missing name than a claim we cannot back.

Three strategies that work

Frequently asked questions

My favourite player is missing. Why?

Either he is still active, or he is not from the current country, or his career record is open in our database.

Is my progress saved?

It is, in your own browser, and separate from the other games in the hub.

Are there other Lineups?

Three of them: countries, clubs and America.

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