Club teammates
Two players connect when they appeared for the same club in the same FIFA edition.
FIFA 15—EA FC 26 · THE FOOTBALL CONNECTION GRAPH
Every player is
closer than you think.
Pick any two footballers. We'll trace the shortest chain of teammates connecting them—club by club, country by country.
How it works & data sourcesTHE BIG FINDING99.26%
of FIFA 21 players belonged to one connected football universe.
Original FIFA 21 finding · Andrew YuBuilding the player networkIndexing twelve FIFA and EA Sports FC editions…
Club connection National team Your connection
PLAYER REACH
How far does one
name travel?
Choose a player or community profile to see how much of the football universe sits exactly one, two, three—up to six—links away.
Calculating player reach…
THE RULES OF THE GRAPH
One shared dressing room
is all it takes.
Choose a FROM and TO player, then trace the link. The original notebook's breadth-first search checks the graph and explains every hop.
National squads
Called-up internationals connect by year, including sourced Philippine squad cohorts.
Breadth-first search
BFS explores the graph layer by layer and returns the valid route with the fewest hops.
Public data
Kaggle player datasets cover FIFA 15 through EA FC 26, supplemented by sourced squad records.
Add yourself or a friend to the graph
Open Put yourself on the map, add a name and one or more known players, then save the profile to the community.