About Ball IQ

Ball IQ is a football quiz game for people who love the details — the moments, records, managers and matches that define the sport. It began with a simple frustration: almost every football quiz online is shallow, and when you get one wrong it just says "wrong" and moves on. Ball IQ explains the answer on most questions, so playing feels less like a test and more like learning something each round.

The game is built on thousands of hand-curated questions spanning the FIFA World Cup, the Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and the European Championship, plus dedicated sets on football's great managers, its legends, and the all-time records that settle arguments. Difficulty runs from gentle warm-ups to genuinely hard deep cuts, so a casual fan and a die-hard both get a real test. Beyond the quizzes there's a daily challenge, a Wordle-style guessing game called Footle, an IQ test that scores your football knowledge, and live online multiplayer where you go head-to-head with friends in real time.

Ball IQ is an independent project, built and maintained in Norway. It's available as a free app on the App Store and Google Play, and as a web app you can play in any browser — no sign-up required to start. New questions are added regularly, and the whole thing is made by someone who genuinely cares about getting the football right.

That accuracy matters to us. Questions are researched, most answers carry a short factual explanation, and the bank is reviewed continuously. If you ever spot a mistake or a question that reads wrong, we want to know — corrections get fixed fast. Football history is detailed and occasionally contested, and we'd rather get it right than get it quickly.

Here is what that looks like in practice. Every question is written by hand and then checked twice before it reaches the game: once against the claim it makes, and once against the wrong answers offered alongside it. That second check matters more than it sounds. A question is only as good as its wrong options — if three of the four can be dismissed without knowing any football, it is not really a question. Sets that fail either check are rewritten or dropped rather than padded out, which is why some clubs have fewer questions than others. We would rather a smaller set that is right.

The game is organised around how people actually argue about football. There are quizzes for individual clubs — 72 of them, from Liverpool and Real Madrid down to Hajduk Split and Bournemouth — as well as leagues, tournaments, eras and individual players. Alongside them sit reference lists: every Ballon d'Or winner, every European Cup final, the top scorers and record holders, kept as plain tables you can check rather than quiz formats. Some people come for the game and stay for the tables; some do the reverse.

Ball IQ is free, and free in the ordinary sense — you can play the daily games and every quiz without an account, without a trial, and without a paywall appearing three questions in. Creating an account only adds things that need one: saved streaks, friends, and multiplayer rooms. We do not sell player data, and the native apps carry no advertising or analytics at all.