Game Rules & No-Gambling Statement
Version 2.1 · Effective 2026-10-29
In short. GOALit is a free prediction game. Guess scores before kickoff, earn points based on how close you were, and see who tops the table. There's no entry fee, no prize of money or value, and nothing in GOALit is gambling. See Terms of Use §4 for the legal detail.
How scoring works
You submit a guess for a match's final score before it kicks off. Each tournament has its own scoring rules, set when it's created; the defaults, shown and explained in full inside the app at Settings → Rules, award points roughly like this:
- A fully correct score ("bullseye") scores the most points.
- Correctly picking the winning side (or a draw) without the exact score scores fewer points.
- A wrong guess scores no points.
- Correctly picking your tournament's eventual champion, or its top scorer, earns a separate bonus, decided at the end of the relevant competition.
Exact point values are configured per tournament and shown in the app — check Settings → Rules or the tournament's own rules screen for the numbers in effect in a specific tournament, rather than relying on this page for exact figures.
Kickoff lock
Guesses lock at kickoff. If you haven't submitted a guess before a match starts, you don't score points for that match. Each tournament's guesses are independent: if you're in two tournaments following the same league, you guess separately in each one.
The 90-minute rule
Your guess is judged on the score at the end of 90 minutes of play, as reported by our football data provider. Extra time and penalty shoot-outs are never counted, even if they decide the actual match.
The data provider is the source of truth
Scores, fixtures and results come from a third-party football data provider. Live scores and points may update continuously while a match is in play, but nothing is final until the data provider reports the match as complete.
Corrections and admin adjustments
If the data provider corrects a score after the fact, or a mistake is found in how points were calculated, points and leaderboards may be recalculated, including retroactively. A tournament administrator can ask Crownerv to apply a manual point adjustment (for example, to fix a specific, identified error); a Crownerv admin reviews and decides whether to approve it. We aim to use this sparingly and transparently, but the final word on scoring, and on any adjustment, rests with Crownerv.
Titles
A tournament's final standings earn "Titles" — honorary recognition for the top finishers — only if the tournament has at least 3 members who joined before its first match. Smaller tournaments still track points and a leaderboard, but their results don't count toward Titles.
No entry fee, no prizes, not gambling
Playing GOALit costs nothing: no entry fee, no in-app purchase, and no prize of money or money's worth from Crownerv. Points and Titles exist for fun and bragging rights only, and have no monetary value. You may not run or participate in any paid pool or side bet based on GOALit outside the app — see Terms of Use §4 for why this matters and what we do about it. Apple is not a sponsor of GOALit, and has no role in any Title or result awarded in the app.
Fair play
Using multiple accounts, bots, scripts, or exploiting bugs to gain an unfair scoring advantage is against our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, and can lead to point reversal, disqualification from Titles, or a ban.
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