Trophy Cabinet — Guess the Footballer From Their Honours
How Trophy Cabinet works
One player's honours, and nothing else. No name, no club, no nationality, no photo — just the competitions and the years, laid out the way a cabinet is. Every other guessing game here spreads attributes across a grid and asks you to triangulate. This gives one axis in full and asks a narrower question: do you recognise a career from what it won?
281 players whose exact set of competitions and years belongs to nobody else, drawn from the 348 holding three or more derived trophies across 13 competitions. The biggest cabinet in the pool holds 23.
The uniqueness filter is not a nicety. Teammates share cabinets — a whole Bayern generation holds the same league titles in the same years — and marking a dozen correct answers wrong is not a hard puzzle, it is a broken one. What survives the filter is usually a career with one stray trophy from an earlier club, which is exactly the detail that makes a cabinet identifiable in the first place.
What a trophy means here: the player was at the club in a season it won. Not that they played in the final, not that they were given a medal. An injured season, a bench year and a January transfer all count. It is a squad record.
Maintained by the PlayFutbol Data Team · First puzzle published September 2026 · Last audited September 14, 2026.
How to play in 3 steps
- 1
Read the cabinet
Competitions and the years they were won.
- 2
Name a player
Search and pick. You have 6 guesses.
- 3
Use the clues
Every miss unlocks one, running broad to narrow.
How to read a cabinet
- 1. The years pin the era before the trophies pin the club. A cabinet running 2008–2012 and one running 2019–2024 rule out entirely different squads, and the era is easier to read than the club.
- 2. The odd trophy out is the whole puzzle. Four Bundesligas describe a Bayern squad; four Bundesligas plus one Eredivisie describes one person who moved.
- 3. Gaps mean transfers. A league title, three empty years, then a different league — that shape is a move abroad, and there are not many players it fits.
- 4. A World Cup narrows nationality hard. International honours cut the field faster than any club trophy, so use them first when they appear.
- 5. Count before you guess. A cabinet of twenty is a serial winner at one or two clubs; a cabinet of three is a journeyman who caught one good season.
A worked example
An FA Cup in 2015, a Europa League in 2016, a La Liga in 2022. Three trophies, three different competitions, two countries, and a seven-year arc. The English pair sit together, so that is one club in one spell; the La Liga is a later move to Spain. Almost nobody made exactly that journey in exactly those years — which is why this cabinet survives the uniqueness filter while "Bundesliga 2020, 2021, 2022" does not. Memphis Depay.
About the authors
Trophy Cabinet is maintained by the PlayFutbol Data Team. Honours are derived by crossing verified club spells with Wikidata season winners — a rebuild that replaced hand-entered trophy lists which had, among other things, a defender holding a Champions League he won at twelve. Players whose chronology could not be verified are excluded from the pool entirely.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Trophy Cabinet?
A daily football guessing game. You see one player's honours — competitions and years — and nothing else. No name, no club, no nationality, no photo. 6 guesses to name them.
What do I get for a wrong guess?
A clue. They arrive broad to narrow: nationality, position, career length, one club they won with, and finally the first letter of the surname. A player who reaches the last clue has already spent five guesses.
How is it scored?
A first-guess identification is 100 points, dropping 15 for each guess after that, with a floor of 25. Failing to name them scores nothing.
Could two players have the same cabinet?
Yes, and it would break the game — an entire Bayern generation holds the same league titles in the same years, and marking eleven correct answers wrong is not a hard puzzle. So only players whose exact competition-and-year set belongs to nobody else are ever used: 281 of the 348 players holding three or more derived trophies.
Does a trophy mean they played?
No, and this is the most important thing on the page. A trophy here means the player was at the club in a season it won. An injured season, a bench year and a January transfer all count. It is a squad record, not an appearance record.
Where do the trophies come from?
They are derived, not typed in: verified club spells crossed with Wikidata season winners. Players whose career chronology could not be verified are excluded entirely rather than shown with numbers we do not trust.
Why only three trophies or more?
Below three a cabinet is not a fingerprint — one league title and one cup describes hundreds of people. Three is where the shape starts to identify somebody.
Which competitions can appear?
13: the five big European leagues, four domestic cups, the Champions League, the Europa League, the World Cup and the European Championship.
How is this different from Who Am I?
Who Am I gives six clues across six different attributes and asks you to triangulate. Trophy Cabinet gives one axis in full and asks whether you recognise a career from what it won. Different question, different skill.
Does everyone get the same player?
Yes. A seeded generator gives every player worldwide the same cabinet for a given date.
Is there an archive?
Yes, the last 30 days are replayable and do not affect your daily streak.
Is it free?
Yes. No signup, no paywall, no ads inside the game.
Related daily football games
- Honours Rank — order five players by trophy count.
- Who Am I? — six clues across six attributes.
- Trophy Grid — competitions against nationalities, nine cells.
Trophy Cabinet is maintained by the PlayFutbol Data Team · 281 unique cabinets · 13 competitions · Last audited September 14, 2026 · Report corrections at support@playfutbol.app.