How the Barcelona history timeline game works

The cards are moments from FC Barcelona's history: trophies, stadium openings, famous signings, debuts and departures. You order them by year, and a line beneath each title gives the detail. You get one moment on the line to start, year showing. You work through the rest a card at a time, choosing a gap for each. When you're right the year shows up; when you're wrong it lands in its true place and you lose one of three lives.

The club's story runs through Dutch influence on the pitch and the bench, a production line of homegrown stars from the academy, and the trophy-laden years built around one Argentine forward. That last stretch is crowded, so expect several cards from a single season. Debuts are tricky because a player's first game can come long before his peak. Early domestic trophies are spread thin.

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 37 times. An average run places 11.8 cards, and 80% of all placements land in the right spot. 5% of runs place every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

La Masia academy formally established at the farmhouse missed 63% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Fairs Cup won as a European pioneer missed 47% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Copa del Rey won during the pre-war era missed 38% of the time, usually by a single place

The safest card is MSN treble under Luis Enrique, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 27 of the 27 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Club founded by Joan Gamper Swiss pioneer starts Futbol Club Barcelona
Camp Nou stadium opens Vast new home inaugurated in Les Corts district
Johan Cruyff signed as a player Dutch genius joins the Catalan side
First European Cup won at Wembley Koeman free kick beats Sampdoria
Cruyff's Dream Team era begins as manager Total-football philosophy installed on the bench
Ronaldo the Brazilian signed for a world record Teenage phenomenon arrives from PSV
Rivaldo wins the Ballon d'Or at the club Brazilian playmaker crowned world's best
Ronaldinho arrives to revive the club Brazilian star signed from Paris Saint-Germain
Second European Cup won against Arsenal in Paris Eto'o and Belletti overturn the Gunners
Lionel Messi's first-team debut Argentine teenager steps onto the pitch
Guardiola's treble sealed in Rome Champions League, La Liga and Copa in one season
Sextuple completed with the Club World Cup Six trophies in a single calendar year
Champions League won against Manchester United at Wembley Messi-inspired masterclass over United
MSN treble under Luis Enrique Messi, Suárez and Neymar sweep three trophies
Champions League won over Juventus in Berlin Fourth continental title of the modern era
Neymar sold to Paris Saint-Germain World-record transfer breaks up the front three
Messi departs the club on a free Financial crisis forces the icon's exit
First La Liga title of the club's history Maiden Spanish championship won
Copa del Rey won during the pre-war era Early national cup success
Fairs Cup won as a European pioneer Continental competition triumph before the European Cup era
Cup Winners' Cup won under Cruyff as player-catalyst Continental cup lifted in the 1970s
Six trophies eclipsed by Messi's record scoring season Argentine sets a single-season goals record
Kaiser Franz-style rebuild under Xavi as head coach Club legend returns to the dugout
Lewandowski signed from Bayern Munich Polish striker leads a post-Messi reset
La Masia academy formally established at the farmhouse Youth system that produced Messi and Xavi founded
Ronald Koeman's free kick that won the first European Cup The strike that broke the Wembley deadlock
Andrés Iniesta debuts for the first team Midfield great begins his Barça career