Squad Rush is a free daily football speed game in which you name as much of one club’s squad from one season as you can inside ninety seconds. The clock does not run from the moment the page loads — it starts on your first keystroke, so you can read the club, read the season, think, and only then begin. Wrong names cost nothing but the seconds spent typing them, which makes a punt at a half-remembered squad player the sensible move rather than the reckless one. Give up at any point to see the rest of the squad. The club is one of seventeen across the top five European leagues and the season one of ten from 2016-17 on. A fresh squad is set at midnight UTC, identical for everybody.
On your first keystroke, not on load. Reading the club and season, deciding where to start, and steadying yourself are all free. That means the sensible opening is not to type immediately but to fix three or four certain names in your head first, because typing is what the clock is actually measuring.
Anyone who appeared for that club in that season, which includes fringe players and mid-season arrivals as well as the regulars. Squads run to a few dozen names, so nobody is expected to clear one — the score is how many you found, and the reveal at the end is usually where the surprises are.
Nothing but the time to type them. There is no penalty, no strike count and no deduction, so a name you are sixty per cent sure of is worth submitting. The only real cost is that a long wrong name eats seconds you could have spent on a short right one.
By how well known the squad is. Easy squads are full of players a general football audience can name; Hard ones are the same seventeen clubs in seasons where the depth of the squad is less familiar. Playing any one of the three levels marks Squad Rush done for the day.
Type surnames only and go position by position rather than by memory of the season — the goalkeepers and centre-backs are a much shorter list than the attack.
Starting XI narrows the same squad down to the eleven who played most, and Squad Numbers asks it shirt by shirt instead.