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Unofficial·Fan-made·Built by one person·No studio, no publisher·Nation or club, never the same link twice in a row· Unofficial·Fan-made·Built by one person·No studio, no publisher·Nation or club, never the same link twice in a row·
Issue No. 01 — Unofficial fan-made football programme

Impossible
XI

Spin for a random first player. Then chain ten more, each one sharing a nation or a club with the last. Never the same link twice in a row.

Finish the XI and take it through a European campaign.

Team Sheet
4-3-3 · Saka Potatoes
1
Thibaut Courtois
2
Eden Hazard
3
N'Golo Kanté
4
Olivier Giroud
5
Zlatan Ibrahimović
6
who shares a nation…
five down, six to go 84.6
Pick your mode

Three ways to play

Same rules underneath. What changes is who you're playing against, and how long the argument lasts.

The rules

Four steps to a finished XI

No tutorial video. It takes about forty seconds to learn and a lot longer to get good at.

01
Pick a formation
Lock in a shape before anyone touches the pitch. Every player after this has to fit one of the slots.
02
Spin for the first
Completely random, and completely out of your hands. Whoever lands is the anchor for the whole chain.
03
Chain the rest
Each new player shares a nation or a club with the last. Club counts for anywhere they've ever played, and you can't use the same link type twice in a row.
04
Go to Europe
League phase, knockouts, two-legged ties. Go the distance and try to lift the thing.
Live
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European campaigns completed
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Footballers linked
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Players worldwide
and counting, thank you for playing
Top of the table

The Leaderboard

Ranked by Overall Rating: squad strength, plus how far that XI went in Europe.

#TeamFormationSquadOverall
The story

One fan. One project.
Endless iterations.

If something feels off, it's because I built it wrong, not because a committee signed it off.

Impossible XI is a solo project. No studio, no publisher, no roadmap dictated by a boardroom.

Just a football fan who's followed Bayern Munich for the last sixteen years and thought the sport deserved a few more silly, obsessive little games about it.

Every mode here exists because someone asked for it, usually through the wishlist that sits inside the game. Ideas get read, voted on, and sometimes make it in the same week.

The player pool covers Europe's top leagues from roughly 2013 to today. The links are real: nationality, club history and position are public facts, used only so you can identify who you're picking.

Support the project

This runs on nights, weekends and hosting bills. If you're enjoying it, a coffee goes a long way.

Built by
One person
Supporting
Bayern, 16 years
Player pool
2013 to now
Price
Free, always
Next up
You decide