There is something quietly addictive about a good football quiz. Not the ones that ask you to recite every World Cup winner since Uruguay in 1930, but the sort that catches you out on a player you reckon you know inside out, or a fact that sits just beyond the edge of your memory. BBC Sport have been quietly building that habit with their trio of daily quizzes, and if you have not yet made them part of your morning routine — alongside the tea and a scroll through the overnight transfer gossip — you are missing a trick.

Three formats, three different tests

The daily offering comes in three distinct formats, each designed to poke a different corner of your football knowledge.

  • Who Am I? drops you into a guessing game where clues are rationed out one at a time. Get the answer on the first clue and you bank the maximum points; the more hints you need, the more your score bleeds away. It rewards those who can join the dots quickly — the early-career loan spells, the international caps, the unusual transfer combinations — rather than those who simply know the big names.
  • Five in Five is exactly what it sounds like: five correct answers required before the five-minute clock runs out. The format suits the genuinely well-rounded football fan, the kind who can switch from naming a 1990s FA Cup finalist to recalling a League One top scorer without missing a beat.
  • Brainteaser is the fiendish one. You get five lives before the answer is revealed, and the question is deliberately designed to make you second-guess yourself. It is the format that tends to spark the most debate in offices and group chats, because almost every answer feels plausible until it suddenly does not.

Why quizzes matter to football culture

It is easy to dismiss quizzes as filler, but they serve a genuinely useful purpose in how fans engage with the game. The depth of football knowledge in this country is extraordinary — accumulated across decades of watching, reading, arguing and remembering. A well-constructed quiz taps into all of that, creating a brief daily ritual that sits somewhere between mental exercise and community sport. The competitive element, whether you are chasing a personal best or quietly measuring yourself against a colleague, keeps people coming back.

BBC Sport have leaned into that by making the questions a collaborative effort. Today's set was put together by Joe Rindl, Flora Snelson, and a BBC Sport user called Kian from Chessington — a reminder that some of the most devious quiz questions come from fans who have spent years storing away the kind of obscure detail that never quite fits into a match report but never fully leaves the memory either.

How to find them

All three quizzes update daily and are available through BBC Sport's dedicated football quizzes page. You can also sign up for notifications so the latest edition lands on your device without any hunting around. For those who want to go deeper, there are archive pages gathering every previous edition of Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser in one place — useful if you have come late to the habit and want to work through the back catalogue on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Whether you manage all three in a single sitting or spread them through the day, they are a decent way to keep the football brain ticking over between fixtures. And if you do get stumped by the Brainteaser, do not worry — apparently even the people setting the questions occasionally surprise themselves.

Frequently asked

Where can I find the BBC Sport daily football quizzes?
The three daily quizzes — Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser — are published each day on BBC Sport's dedicated football quizzes page. You can also sign up for notifications to get each new quiz sent straight to your device.
How does the BBC Sport Who Am I? quiz work?
Who Am I? challenges you to identify a footballer using as few clues as possible. Each wrong guess unlocks a new clue, and the fewer clues you need, the more points you score — so it pays to be decisive early.
Can I play previous BBC Sport football quizzes?
Yes. BBC Sport has archive pages that collect every previous edition of Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser, so you can go back and attempt older editions whenever you like.