How Goalasso works — the twelve game modes, how scoring and levels are worked out, what you get by signing in, and where the questions come from.
You just play — there is no sign-up wall. Open the home page, pick a game from the mode selector and you are in; Goalasso creates a guest session for you automatically. Some modes then ask you to choose a difficulty (Easy, Medium or Hard), others start straight away. Signing in is free and optional: it saves your best score in every mode, puts you on the leaderboards, and keeps your progress in step across your phone, your computer and the iPhone app.
Twelve, and they are not all quizzes. Box to Box is a 3D runner: dodge the tackles, reach the box and beat the keeper. The VAR puts you in the referee's shoes for a one-shot story where every call counts. Chain Reaction has you linking footballers from the same country against the clock. ValueGuessr asks how close you can get to a player's market value. TransferChain connects two players through shared teammates. Tier List ranks legends from GOAT downwards. Career Path shows a player's clubs in order, one of them hidden, and asks who he is. Stay Quiet dares you to hold out for a better player. Trophy Hunt asks you to name everyone on a top list. Stadium Roar compares two players' stats. The Bomb is name-as-many-as-you-can before time runs out. Rank It has you placing ten players in order on a single stat.
The question-based modes offer three: Easy sticks to well-known players, major tournaments and the broad strokes of football history. Medium goes further into specific statistics, less familiar names and tactical detail. Hard is for records, historical detail and the kind of question that troubles people who think they know everything. Not every mode uses them — Box to Box, The VAR, ValueGuessr and Chain Reaction have their own built-in progression instead, and get harder as you go.
Each mode scores its own way — accuracy in ValueGuessr, how long you survive in Box to Box, how many names you get in The Bomb — and Goalasso keeps your best result in each one. Your Overall total is the sum of those personal bests, so it rewards playing a range of modes well rather than simply playing a lot. Your level follows that total: one level for every 1,000 points, so 2,410 points puts you at level 3 with 590 to go.
There is an Overall board and one board per mode. A mode's board ranks players by their best score in that mode; the Overall board ranks by the sum of every personal best, so the two always measure the same thing. You need to be signed in to appear: guest sessions can play everything but are not ranked, which keeps the boards meaningful. There is no friend-invite system yet — the usual approach is to share your score and dare someone to beat it.
ValueGuessr has one: a daily round where everybody gets the same five players, with a single attempt. It is the mode to play if you want a fair comparison with other people on the same day, and it resets every day. The other modes are unlimited — play them as often as you like, and your best run is the one that counts.
No. Every game mode is open to guests, and nothing is held back behind a sign-up. What an account adds is memory: your best score in each mode is kept on the account rather than in one browser, you appear on the leaderboards, and your progress follows you between devices and into the iPhone app. You can sign up with an email address, with Google, or with Apple, and it is free.
Your profile is where your record lives: your level and points, how many games you have played, your accuracy across the question-based modes, your best streak and your high score. There is an Achievements tab for the milestones you have unlocked — a hot streak, a perfect round — and a History tab listing your recent games with their scores. You can change your display name, your avatar and your language from Edit Profile.
Passwords are stored hashed, and you can sign in with Google (or Apple in the iPhone app) instead if you would rather not have one here at all. What appears publicly is what you would expect on a leaderboard: your display name, your avatar and your score. We do not sell personal information. Goalasso is operated from the EU and follows the GDPR, so you can ask for a copy of your data or for your account to be deleted — the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is collected and why.
Yes. The site is built for small screens first, and every mode works by touch, Box to Box included. There is also a native Goalasso app for iPhone on the App Store, with the same games and the same account, so your scores carry across. On Android, play in the browser and add Goalasso to your home screen — it then opens like an app.
Try a refresh first, and if that fails, sign out and back in — that clears most oddities. If it persists, use the contact form and tell us what you were doing, which mode you were in, and what device and browser you were using; a screenshot helps more than anything. Goalasso works best on an up-to-date Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge.
Most rounds are assembled by code from our database of 9,318 players and 1,037 clubs, compiled from Wikidata and Transfermarkt data; the rest come from data packs and lists we prepare ourselves. The answer is checked against the same data, so the database is the authority. No AI writes questions while you play, and nobody reviews each question by hand. Behind Our Questions explains where each mode gets its content.
English and French. Both the interface and the questions are available in each, and you can switch from the selector in the navigation bar or from your profile. The two versions of the site have their own pages, so you can read an article in one language while playing in the other without anything resetting.
A blog and a set of guides, both written to be read rather than to pad the site out. The blog covers World Cup and Champions League history, the greatest players and goalkeepers, famous rivalries, how tactics have changed, and how to get better at football trivia. The guides go deeper into a few subjects — how a player's career actually progresses, how the transfer market got where it is, how national teams pick squads, and how youth academies work.