Transfer Trail is a free daily football transfer quiz in which a player’s moves are turned over one at a time — the season, the club they left, the club they joined and the fee paid — until you can name them. Guess on the first move and you score 100; each further move costs 20. Guesses are unlimited and running out of moves does not end the round, so a trail can be worked to its last card without the game closing on you. A trail is the transfers actually on record, which means it can begin a stint or two after a player left home; where that happens the reveal says so rather than letting you assume you have been shown a whole career. Trails run through seventeen clubs over the ten seasons from 2016-17, new each day at midnight UTC.
The season, the selling club, the buying club and the fee. The fee is what makes this different from a plain career list — a specific number attached to a specific summer is a memorable fact in a way that a club name on its own is not, and it is often the single detail that identifies the player before the clubs do.
Because a move only appears if it is on record, and a player leaving a boyhood club or coming through an academy often has no recorded transfer at all. So the first card is the first move the data knows about, not necessarily the first of the career. The reveal flags any trail that begins late, so you are never misled about what you were shown.
One hundred for naming the player on the first move, and 20 off for each further move you reveal. Wrong guesses are free and unlimited; only turning over another card moves the score. When the moves run out the round stays open, so you can keep guessing at no further cost.
Not unless you turn one on. The score already measures hesitation through the cards you reveal, and a timer would charge for the same thing twice. A three-minute clock is available in the setup sheet before a round begins, for anyone who wants the round to have an edge to it.
Read the fee against its season rather than in isolation — a twenty-million move in 2017 and the same figure in 2024 describe very different players.
Who Am I? reveals the same career as clubs without the money attached, and Chronology gives you the clubs up front and asks only for the order.