The live football tactics game
Make the calls a real gaffer makes
Tactical calls on real fixtures, graded on what actually happens on the pitch — and they turn green on your board while the match runs. Free to play, about a minute a round.
Straight from the real calendar
One match, five moments
You don't watch football. You manage it.
Pick a real fixture
Live World Cup matches and qualifiers, straight from the real calendar.
Lock your pre-match calls
Seven questions before kick-off: winner, both teams to score, cards and more.
Watch the board, not the clock
Your locked calls sit on a live board through the match and turn green the moment one is settled. Nothing goes red for something that simply hasn't happened yet.
Make the half-time call
A 13-minute window opens at the whistle, with questions written from the first half you just watched.
Get graded at full-time
Real results score your calls. Earn XP, move your ELO, climb the ranks.
More than one way to call it
Four ways to read a match
The same real fixtures. Different kinds of judgement.
Run of Play
Read how the match will unfold — who controls it, how open it stays — then back that read with three calls from three different areas of the game. The calls score like any others; the Run Score on top is a personal stat, not a rating.
Quick Picks
The straight version. Seven questions before kick-off, a handful more when the half-time window opens. A minute, and you are in.
Fan Flux
The crowd sets a probability. Move it, and at full time you are only right if you read the match better than the crowd did — scored properly, not by vibes. Costs Influence, pays reputation.
Pitchside
No options to choose from, just a real football stat and the range you think the true number sits inside. Tight and correct scores big, wide and correct scores almost nothing, missing scores nothing at all. It runs on finished matches, so it is playable whether or not there is football on.
No account needed
Test yourself before you sign up
Two things you can play right now, in the browser, in under two minutes.
The calibration quiz
Ten claims about football, the kind people repeat all the time. Say which are true and how sure you are. You get two scores kept deliberately apart: how often you were right, and whether your confidence deserved it. Every figure is computed from 5,593 real matches.
Take the quizThe fixture read
A real match paused at half-time with the teams hidden, because a fan who recognises the fixture is remembering rather than predicting. One side leads. Say whether it holds. The same match runs for everyone for three days, so the result is worth arguing about.
Play the fixture readFor creators
Play with your fans. Not just post at them.
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Engage
Host a competition under your own name, logo and colours. Your fans join with one link, no app download, no friction.
Convert
Turn passive followers into named, active members. Your leaderboard becomes your community, and your dashboard shows exactly who's playing.
Earn
Set a membership price for your competition and watch your estimated revenue grow with every fan who joins.
Billing is coming. During early access, prices are shown for information only and no one is charged.
Join as a Creator/Brand
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