How to play the European Cup finals timeline game

These cards are European Cup and Champions League finals, listed as winner over runner-up, with a line underneath about the scorer, the venue or the story of the night. You're sorting the finals by the year they were played. One final starts on the timeline with its year shown. Slot each new card into the gap where you think it fits; a right pick reveals the year, and a wrong one sends the final to its real place while costing one of three lives.

The deck covers both the old European Cup and the modern Champions League, so black-and-white dynasties sit next to finals you probably watched live. A few giants reach the final again and again, which makes the club names less useful than the note under them. Shootouts, all-national finals and famous comebacks all appear, and a venue in the note is often the quickest way to place a card.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 68 times. An average run places 6.2 cards, and 67% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

Bayern Munich over Atletico Madrid missed 89% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Liverpool over Real Madrid missed 78% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Liverpool over Borussia Monchengladbach missed 75% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Real Madrid over Liverpool, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 61 cards you might be dealt, with 33 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Real Madrid over Eintracht Frankfurt Di Stefano and Puskas romp 7-3 at Hampden
Benfica over Real Madrid Eusebio scores twice in Amsterdam
Inter Milan over Real Madrid Herrera's Grande Inter triumphs
Real Madrid over Partizan The Ye-ye side wins a sixth title
Manchester United over Benfica Best and Charlton triumph at Wembley
Feyenoord over Celtic The first Dutch champions of Europe
Ajax over Juventus Total Football completes a three-peat
Bayern Munich over Leeds United A controversial night in Paris
Liverpool over Borussia Monchengladbach The Reds' first European Cup, in Rome
Nottingham Forest over Malmo Brian Clough's unlikely champions
Liverpool over Real Madrid Alan Kennedy's winner in Paris
Hamburg over Juventus Felix Magath's early strike in Athens
Steaua Bucharest over Barcelona Duckadam saves four penalties
PSV Eindhoven over Benfica Dutch champions win on penalties
Red Star Belgrade over Marseille A goalless final settled on penalties
Marseille over AC Milan Basile Boli's header stuns Milan
Ajax over AC Milan Teenage sub Kluivert's late winner
Manchester United over Bayern Munich Injury-time comeback completes the treble
Bayern Munich over Valencia Bayern win a penalty shootout in Milan
AC Milan over Juventus An all-Italian final decided on penalties
Liverpool over AC Milan The Istanbul comeback from three down
AC Milan over Liverpool Filippo Inzaghi's double avenges Istanbul
Inter Milan over Bayern Munich Diego Milito's double seals Mourinho's treble
Bayern Munich over Borussia Dortmund Robben's late winner in an all-German final
Barcelona over Juventus The MSN trio shine in Berlin
Real Madrid over Liverpool Bale's bicycle-kick stunner in Kyiv
Bayern Munich over Paris Saint-Germain Coman's header in the Lisbon final
Manchester City over Inter Milan Rodri's goal completes the treble