The 38-0 Game: One Perfect Season, Zero Slip-Ups

38-0 stands for a season record no club has ever achieved: 38 wins, 0 draws, 0 defeats. The 38-0 game turns that impossible line into a football challenge you can actually play — draft an XI from real historic squads, simulate all 38 matchdays, and see how close you get.

What does 38-0 mean?

League tables list a club's record as wins-draws-losses. A 20-team league plays 38 matchdays, so the perfect line reads 38-0-0: every match won, not a single point dropped. Short forms and spoken variants all mean the same thing — 38-0, 38 and 0, 38 nil, thirty-eight and oh. It has never happened in a 38-game top-flight season, which is exactly why it became a game.

How the 38-0 football game works

1. Spin — the wheel draws a real club and a real season, for example Fiorentina 01/02.
2. Draft — you pick one player who actually played for that club that year and place him in your XI. Positions must match, and every pick is final.
3. Repeat — eleven spins, eleven picks, limited rerolls. When the XI is complete, the rules lock.
4. Simulate — all 38 matchdays play out minute by minute, with named scorers on both sides and a live league table.
5. Score — 38-0-0 is the dream. A single draw ends the perfect season, but the run still counts on the leaderboard.

Has anyone ever gone 38 and 0 for real?

No. Unbeaten seasons exist — Arsenal went through the 2003/04 Premier League without losing, and Juventus did the same in the 2011/12 Serie A — but both records are full of draws: Arsenal drew 12 of their 38, Juventus drew 15. Winning every single match is a different universe of difficulty. We wrote up the closest real-world attempts in has any team ever had a perfect Serie A season?

The Serie A version

This site is the Italian take on the 38-0 challenge: 55 clubs with real squads spanning 1929 to 2022, from Juventus, Milan, Inter, Roma and Napoli down to one-season sides. On top of the classic solo draft it adds a daily challenge — the whole world draws the same sequence of spins for 24 hours — 1v1 duels against a friend on identical cards, and a Squad of 16 format where you draft a full squad first and choose the formation last. It plays in English or Italian.

FAQ

In the game, yes — rarely, and mostly on lower difficulties with a strong draft. In real football, never in a 38-game top flight. That gap is the whole point.

Yes — free in any modern browser, desktop or mobile, no download. An account is only needed to appear on the world leaderboard.

Same thing. 38-0-0 is the full wins-draws-losses line, the rest are short or spoken forms. Even the common typos — 36-0-0, 32-0-0, 30-0-0 — are usually people looking for this game.

Yes — the Duel mode sends you both the identical sequence of spins, and whoever builds the better season wins the series.