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Footballer database

The footballers behind the Extra Time word list, with their real club, country, position and birth year.

Short answer

220 footballers are listed here with their real recorded details. Any five-letter surname in the list can appear as a Extra Time answer, and every entry links to the player’s full page and to the game.

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Player data questions

Where does this player data come from?

From our own football database, assembled from open football data (primarily DBpedia, derived from Wikipedia under a free licence) and maintained alongside the game. Country, position, club and birth year are the real recorded values.

Why are these players here?

They are the footballers our five-letter word list draws on, plus the wider database the puzzles are built from. A five-letter surname in this list can appear as a Extra Time answer, which is why the names feel familiar on the board.

Is the data current?

It is a snapshot of a maintained database. Transfers happen, so a club can change after a record is written; where a fact is uncertain the field is left blank rather than guessed.

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