Name a player who played in two clubs or a club & nationality, before your opponent does.

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Two Shirts, One Name

Common is a free trivia game that tests your football memory. Two clubs appear on screen and you have to name a real player who turned out for both. Arsenal and Real Madrid? Emmanuel Adebayor or Mesut Özil. Santos and Barcelona? Neymar comes to mind. The idea looks simple, then quietly turns into an exam on everything you have absorbed over the years.

Every answer is checked instantly against more than 90,000 real player careers compiled from Transfermarkt squads. The database covers every season of nine major European leagues since 1990: the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Süper Lig, the Primeira Liga, the Eredivisie and the Jupiler Pro League. Champions League history, the marquee MLS clubs, the Brazilian sides that export to Europe and the golden-era Chinese Super League squads are in there too.

How to play

Play a friend online, hand the device back and forth on the same screen, or train against the AI. In online matches both players pick their club at the same time; you cannot see your opponent's choice, only that they are ready. In Sudden Death the first valid answer takes the round, in Turn Based players alternate and no name may be reused, and in Blitz whoever lands the most correct answers in 30 seconds wins. In Nationality mode the second side is a country rather than a club. The How to Play page has the detail.

Arena, for streamers

In Arena mode a host opens a lobby and any number of viewers join through an invite link. Each round serves a club pairing from the major leagues, everyone answers at once, and a leaderboard builds itself. It was designed for community streams.

The search that settles arguments

When you are playing out loud and someone insists a player never turned out there, open Search and type both clubs: every shared player in the database is listed instantly. Type a single player's name instead and you get their full club career, including the sides they managed.

Transfer stories

Behind every pairing in the game there is a transfer story. Our blog collects the best of them: the players who crossed the Clásico divide, the ones who crossed Milan, the line nobody crosses between Liverpool and Manchester United, the traffic between Bayern and Dortmund, the Istanbul derby crossings and the golden age of the Chinese Super League.

Common is free, needs no account and runs in the browser. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app.

Setup

Game Type
Team & Team
Two clubs, one link
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Team & Nation
Club meets country
Game Mode
Sudden Death
First to name a player wins the round
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Turn Based
Take turns naming players. First to get stuck loses
Best of
3
5
Round Timer
15s
30s
45s
60s
The Gaffer's Clause
📋
Can't separate Klopp from Liverpool, no?
Count the clubs someone managed, not just played for
Leagues
Room Code
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Share with your opponent

You
Waiting...

Waiting for opponent...

Pick Your Team

Search and select

P1
VS
P2

Player 1
Player 2
3
GO!

Round 1
Player 1 Wins!
Player 1
Team
Player 2
Team
Name a player who links both sides
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📅 Daily Match

One pair a day. Same for everyone.

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🔍 Common Player Search

Playing out loud? Settle it here.

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Two clubs, or a club and a country

or search a player
📋
Count managers too

🏟️ Arena

Share the link, then start a round

Arena Code
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Leaderboard
Waiting for players…

🏟️ Arena

Waiting for the host to start a round…

Leaderboard