# Player tags and clan tags: how to find, share and look them up > Where your Clash of Clans player tag lives, how to copy and share it, how clan tags differ, why the # matters, and what anyone can actually see from a tag. Source: https://clanwarden.com/blog/clash-of-clans-player-tag Published 25 August 2026 · 6 min read · Basics Keywords: clash of clans player tag, how to find player tag coc, clash of clans clan tag, coc player tag lookup, find someone's clash of clans account, what is a player tag A player tag is your account's permanent ID, a `#` followed by eight or nine characters, handed out when the account is created and never changed after that. (Accounts from the game's first year have shorter ones, which is why `#2PP` is only three.) Change your name, move device, switch clans twenty times: the tag stays. It is how every tool outside the game, this one included, knows which account you mean. ## Finding your player tag 1. Open Clash of Clans and go to your home village. 2. Tap your **name and experience level** in the top-left corner. Your profile opens. 3. Your tag is directly under your name: `#` followed by eight or nine characters. 4. Tap it to copy it to your clipboard. Some screens show a share icon beside it instead, which does the same thing. > **The characters that trip people up** > > Tags use a restricted alphabet, and there is no `O`, no `I`, no `S` and no `B` in it. If you are reading a tag off a screenshot, the round character is a zero, the tall one is a one, the five is a five and the eight is an eight. This is the cause of most "account not found" errors. You can also find your own tag from Settings, and other people's from the clan member list. Tap any member and their profile opens with their tag under their name. ## Finding a clan tag Clan tags work identically and are a separate thing from your player tag. Open your clan, tap the clan name at the top to open clan info, and the tag sits under the clan's name in the same place. Anyone can read it, including people who are not in the clan. | | Player tag | Clan tag | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------- | | Identifies | One account, permanently | One clan, permanently | | Where | Profile, under your name | Clan info, under the clan name | | Changes when… | Never | Never, not even if the clan is renamed | | Used for | Account lookups, tools, recruitment applications | Roster lookups, war history, clan management tools | In ClanWarden the two do different jobs: a player tag gives you [one account's rush verdict](https://clanwarden.com/), and a clan tag gives you [the whole roster ranked at once](https://clanwarden.com/boards). ## Does the # symbol matter? In the game, yes, the tag includes it. In most tools, no: they will accept `#2PP` or `2PP` and work out what you meant. It is worth knowing why the difference exists, because it is the same reason a pasted tag sometimes fails in a browser. `#` is a reserved character in URLs, so everything after it is a page anchor, not part of the address, so a raw tag in a URL bar loses everything from the `#` onwards. Well-built tools encode it or strip it. If you paste a tag somewhere and get an error, dropping the `#` is the first thing to try. > **Try it without one** > > No tag handy? `#2PP` is one of the oldest accounts in the game and works everywhere as a test tag. ## What someone can see from your tag This is the part worth being straight about, because "can people hack my account with my tag" is a question that gets asked constantly and answered badly. A tag is public information. It is visible to everyone in your clan, everyone you war against, and anyone who sees your profile. It is an identifier, not a credential, and it grants nothing. What it _does_ let anyone do is read what Supercell publishes about the account through the official API: - Name, town hall level, experience level, trophies and personal best - Hero levels, troop and spell levels, and hero equipment levels - War stars, attack and defence wins, donations for the current season - Current clan and role, and your clan war preference - Achievements, and league and legend league statistics - **Not** your email, phone number, Supercell ID or any login detail - **Not** your base layout or the contents of your storages - **Not** anything that lets anyone do a single thing to your account > **The actual risk is the opposite direction** > > Nobody takes an account with a tag. They take it with a login link you clicked, or a "free gems" site you signed into. Supercell will never ask for your credentials, and no legitimate stats tool ever needs anything except the tag itself. ## Looking an account up Once you have a tag, checking an account takes seconds and needs no login on either side. The account owner does not have to install anything, approve anything or even know you did it, because everything comes from Supercell's public API. Paste a player tag into ClanWarden and you get a rush score graded against that account's own town hall, a verdict on heroes, troops, spells and equipment, and the three upgrades it should do next. Paste a clan tag and you get the same treatment applied to the entire roster, ranked. If you would rather have the verdict delivered unkindly, the same tag also feeds the [roast](https://clanwarden.com/blog/roast-my-clash-of-clans-base). The two reasons people actually do this: checking their own progress against where their town hall says they should be, and checking an applicant before letting them into a clan. The second is common enough that it has [its own workflow](https://clanwarden.com/blog/clash-of-clans-clan-recruitment). A tag in the application is what turns "seems active" into something you can verify in ten seconds. ## Sharing a tag properly - **Copy it, do not type it.** Tap the tag in your profile. Every manually typed tag eventually contains a letter O. - **Paste it whole**, `#` included, into chat or a recruitment post. Tools strip what they do not need. - **Screenshots are the worst option.** The reader has to transcribe it, and the character confusion above is waiting for them. - **In-game links work too.** The share button on your profile creates a link that opens your account directly in the game for anyone who taps it. **Have a tag? See what it says**: Paste a player tag for the full rush verdict, or a clan tag for the whole roster ranked. No login, either way. [Look up a tag](https://clanwarden.com/) ## Frequently asked ### How do I find my player tag in Clash of Clans? Tap your name in the top-left corner of your home village to open your profile. Your player tag is directly under your name, a # followed by eight or nine characters. Tap it to copy it. ### What is the difference between a player tag and a clan tag? A player tag identifies one account and is found on your profile. A clan tag identifies a clan and is found under the clan name in clan info. Both are permanent and neither changes if the player or clan is renamed. ### Is it safe to share my Clash of Clans player tag? Yes. A tag is a public identifier, not a credential. It is already visible to everyone in your clan and everyone you war against. It lets people read public stats through Supercell's API, and it grants no access to your account whatsoever. ### Why does my player tag not work when I paste it? Usually one of two things. Either the # was lost, since it is a reserved character in web addresses, or a character was misread. Tags contain no letter O, I, S or B, so those are almost always 0, 1, 5 and 8. ### Can I look up any Clash of Clans player with their tag? Yes, as long as the tag is correct. Supercell publishes each account's public profile, covering name, town hall, heroes, troops, equipment, war stars, donations and current clan, through its official API, which is what stats tools read. ## Related guides - https://clanwarden.com/blog/rushed-base-clash-of-clans.md - https://clanwarden.com/blog/clash-of-clans-upgrade-order.md - https://clanwarden.com/blog/roast-my-clash-of-clans-base.md --- ClanWarden (https://clanwarden.com) is unofficial fan content, not affiliated with or endorsed by Supercell.