How to play the Real Madrid history timeline

Each card is a Real Madrid milestone: European Cups, league titles, stadiums, famous signings and debuts. You place them by year, and each card has a short line under the title. One milestone sits on the timeline at the start with its year showing. Put each new card into a gap. When the spot is right, the year comes up; a wrong one still moves it to its real spot and costs you one of three lives.

Madrid's European record dominates the deck, and many cards are continental finals, so the opponents and host cities matter. Several titles use the club's own Spanish nicknames for its European wins, which help only if you know how far the count had got. The era of global superstar signings packs several cards close together. Debuts can catch you out, since a player's first game comes well before his best years.

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 12 times. An average run places 8.6 cards, and 74% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

La Quinta del Buitre wins five straight leagues begins missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium opens missed 50% of the time, usually by a single place
Granted the royal title by Alfonso XIII missed 40% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Club founded as Madrid Football Club Origins as a Spanish football club in the capital
Granted the royal title by Alfonso XIII Becomes Real Madrid with the crown on its crest
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium opens New home ground inaugurated on the Castellana
First European Cup won against Reims Di Stéfano's side lifts the inaugural continental crown
Fifth straight European Cup with the Puskás rout of Frankfurt Hampden Park final sealed a run of continental dominance
Signing of Alfredo Di Stéfano The Argentine forward who defined the golden era arrives
Sixth European Cup, the all-Spanish 'Yé-yé' triumph Homegrown side beats Partizan in Brussels
La Séptima ends a long European drought Mijatović goal beats Juventus in Amsterdam
La Octava won at Hampden with Zidane's volley Bayer Leverkusen beaten in Glasgow
Galácticos launched with the Figo transfer Record capture prised from Barcelona
World-record signing of Zinedine Zidane French maestro bought from Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo arrives for a world-record fee Portuguese star signed from Manchester United
La Décima sealed in extra time over Atlético Ramos header forced the Lisbon final to overtime
La Undécima won on penalties against Atlético Second Madrid derby European final, decided in Milan
La Duodécima, first back-to-back Champions League in the modern era Juventus beaten in Cardiff
La Trecena won against Liverpool in Kyiv Bale's overhead kick lit up the final
Zidane's third straight Champions League as coach A rare continental three-peat completed
First league title of the club's history Maiden Spanish championship secured
Copa del Rey won with the club renamed under the Republic National cup lifted in the 1930s
Intercontinental Cup won against Peñarol Crowned world club champions
La Quinta del Buitre wins five straight leagues begins Butragueño-led golden generation dominates domestically
Fifteenth European crown won over Dortmund at Wembley Carvajal and Vinícius seal another final
Mbappé signed on a free transfer Long-courted French striker finally joins
First club to win the expanded Club World Cup era title Global champions crowned in the revamped format
Luis Figo unveiled amid Camp Nou fury Catalan fans enraged by the cross-club move
Iker Casillas debuts as teenage goalkeeper Future captain breaks into the first team