About Treble Winner
A football draft game about the hardest thing a club side can do.
Treble Winner asks one question: could the XI you draft win the league, the domestic cup and the European Cup in a single season? Only a handful of real sides have ever done it. The game lets you try with players from more than sixty years of European football.
What the game is
Two reels give you a club and a decade — Liverpool in the 1980s, say, or Ajax in the 1970s. You draft one player from whoever that club had in those ten years, and do it eleven times until every shirt of a 4-3-3 is filled. Then your side plays a full season: a 38-match league, a knockout cup and a European campaign. Win all three and it is a treble. Anything less is just a good year.
There is also a national-team version, in which the first reel is a country rather than a club, and a Daily Treble: one puzzle a day, the same for everybody, with its own leaderboard. The guide to playing covers all of it in detail.
The part that makes it a game rather than a spreadsheet is that you never see a rating. Every player in the pool has them, and they decide the season, but they are not shown on the cards and they are not sent to your browser. You draft on what you know about football — which is why we also publish articles on the clubs and decades the reels land on.
Who makes it
Treble Winner is made and run by LTD Async, a small software company in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The quickest way to reach us — about a bug, a player in the wrong decade, a correction to an article, advertising, or anything else — is info@async.ge.
Where the squads come from
The pool is built from Wikidata, the free, openly licensed knowledge base behind Wikipedia. It takes every club that has played a season in the top division of England, Spain, Italy, Germany or France since 1960, every senior men's national team, and every player Wikidata records at one of them in those decades. A player belongs to a decade at a club when his recorded spell there falls in it, so a career that crosses from one decade into the next appears in both.
That makes which club and decade a player belongs to a matter of public record. It also means the pool inherits Wikidata's gaps and slips: a squad that nobody has entered is thin, and the occasional name is spelled two ways. If you spot one, tell us and we will fix it at the source where we can.
How the ratings are made
Wikidata records facts, not opinions, so it has no ratings. Each player gets four — finishing, creativity, defending and physicality — and most start as a figure derived from his record: appearances, goals and individual honours, weighted by position. The best-known players have been tuned by hand on top of that. The ratings are our judgement, they are meant to be argued with, and they are what orders the clubs and decades behind the Easy, Normal and Hard settings.
Where an article quotes a number from the game — a decade's "best-XI rating", for instance — it is one of these ratings, and the article says so. Historical facts in the articles (titles, finals, scores, managers) are a different thing: they come from the public record, not from the game.
How we write the articles
The history pages are written by us, for players of the game, from the published record. We stick to what is well documented — who won what, and when — and keep opinion to the parts that are clearly opinion. When we get something wrong we correct it; write to info@async.ge and say which page.
How the site is paid for
The game is free and needs no account. The English pages carry advertising from Google AdSense, which pays for the server. Nothing from our own records is passed to advertisers, and analytics only run if you allow them. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is recorded and why, and the terms cover the leaderboards and shared results.
Not affiliated
Treble Winner is an independent fan project. It is not connected with, sponsored by or endorsed by any club, league, federation or player named on the site. Club and player names are used only to say who played where.