UK Football Clubs Hangman 🏟️

Guess the club before the mango drops. UK Football Clubs has sixty English, Scottish and Welsh clubs - from Arsenal and Celtic to Accrington Stanley and Queen of the South - in a free, child-friendly hangman alternative you can play instantly in your browser. No gallows, no downloads, no logins: pick a difficulty and find out whether you can spell the clubs as well as you know them.

Every club the game can pick is on the UK Football Clubs word list, sorted by difficulty.

Clubs for every level

Names are written in full, without the "FC", so it's Manchester United rather than Man Utd. There are three difficulty levels:

• Easy - the famous names: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton, Celtic, Rangers and both Manchester clubs.
• Medium - well-known clubs with longer or trickier names: Tottenham Hotspur, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Brighton and Hove Albion, Middlesbrough, Hibernian and Aberdeen.
• Hard - famous old names from further down the leagues and across Scotland: Accrington Stanley, Hamilton Academical, Stenhousemuir and the longest of all, Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

How to guess football club names

Count the words. Thirty-nine of the sixty answers are two words or more, and the blanks show you how long each word is. Six clubs end in United and six in City, so a last word of six letters is often UNITED and a last word of four letters is often CITY.

E first, then T, N and R. E is the most common letter in the list by a long way, followed by T, N, R and A.

Think of the town. Most clubs are named after their town or city, so once a few letters are in, ask yourself which football town fits - then check the ending: Town, City, United, Rovers, Wanderers or Athletic.

Tricky club spellings to watch

• Middlesbrough - it's -brough, not -borough. Easy to add an O that isn't there.
• Sheffield Wednesday - the D in Wednesday is silent, but it still needs guessing.
• Tottenham Hotspur - double T in the middle of Tottenham, even though you hardly hear the middle when it's said.
• Wolverhampton Wanderers - twenty-two letters, with an H hiding in the middle of Wolverhampton.
• Stenhousemuir - a Scottish club whose name is easy to say but hard to spell: S-T-E-N-H-O-U-S-E-M-U-I-R.
• Inverness Caledonian Thistle - at twenty-six letters, the longest answer in the category.

The stories behind the names

• Sheffield Wednesday grew out of the Wednesday Cricket Club, so named because the founding members had a half-day off work on Wednesdays.
• Arsenal was founded in 1886 as Dial Square by munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.
• Crystal Palace began as a professional club in 1905 at the Crystal Palace exhibition building, and played its first home games in the grounds.
• Heart of Midlothian, Edinburgh's oldest football club, was formed in 1874 with a name influenced by Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian.
• Hamilton Academical was established in 1874 from the school football team at Hamilton Academy - hence "Academical".
• Inverness Caledonian Thistle was formed in 1994 when two Inverness clubs, Caledonian and Inverness Thistle, merged.

Questions

Is UK Football Clubs Hangman free?
Yes - completely free, with no account, no download and no ads during gameplay.

Is every club included?
Not every one - there are 60 across the three levels, from England, Scotland and Wales, with the best-known clubs and the best spelling challenges.

What ages is this suitable for?
All ages. Easy names work for young football fans, while the Hard ones will test adults too.

Can I play on a phone or tablet?
Yes. It works in any browser on any device, with nothing to install.

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