goal A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan, and commit to achieve. People endeavour to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. A goal is roughly similar to ...

is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve. Goal may also refer to:

Sport

Goal (sports) In sport, a goal may refer to either an instance of scoring, or to the physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or Hockey puck, puck in order to Score (sport), score points. The structure of a goal varies from spor ...

, a method of scoring in many sports, or the physical structure or area where scoring occurs ** Goals, the goal frame in association football *

Scoring in association football In games of association football, teams compete to score the most goals. A goal is scored when the Ball (association football), ball passes completely over a goal line at either end of the field of play between two centrally positioned upright go ...

, goal scored when the ball passes completely over a goal line *

Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck entirely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who act ...

, scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line **The Goal, the winning goal of the

1972 Summit Series The Summit Series, Super Series 72, Canada–USSR Series (), or Series of the Century (), was an eight-game ice hockey series between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972. It was the first competition between the Soviet nation ...

Scoring in Gaelic games This page discusses scoring in the Gaelic games of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, ladies' Gaelic football, international rules football and shinty-hurling. Note that although rounders and Gaelic handball are considered "Gaelic games", they ...

, for games such as hurling, camogie, and Gaelic football *

Drop goal A drop goal, field goal, or dropped goal is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league and also, rarely, in American football and Canadian football. A drop goal is scored by drop kicking the ball (dropping the ball and then kick ...

, a scoring method used in rugby *

Field goal A field goal (FG) is a means of scoring in gridiron football. To score a field goal, the team in possession of the ball must place kick, or drop kick, the ball through the goal, i.e., between the uprights and over the crossbar. Consequently, ...

, a scoring method used in American and Canadian football *

Field goal (basketball) In basketball, a field goal is a basket scored on any Basketball moves#Shots, shot or tap other than a free throw, worth two or three-point field goal, three points depending on the location of the attempt on the basket. Uncommonly, a field goal ...

, a basket scored on any shot other than a free throw

Arts, entertainment and media

Films

* ''Goal'' (1936 film), a 1936 Argentine sports film directed by Luis Moglia Barth * ''Goal!'' (film series), a trilogy of football films ** ''Goal!'' (film), 2005 British film **'' Goal II: Living the Dream'', 2007 sequel **'' Goal III: Taking on the World'', 2009 straight-to-DVD release * ''Goal'' (2007 Hindi film), a 2007 Bollywood Hindi-language film based on football in the Asian community in England; titled ''Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal'' in India. * ''Goal'' (2007 Malayalam film), a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Kamal * ''Goal'' (2018 film), a 2018 Sinhala film * ''Goal!'', the 1966 official FIFA World Cup film

Games

* ''Goal!'' (video game), a 1988 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System * ''Goals'' (video game), an upcoming free-to-play video game for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S * ''

Dino Dini's Goal ''Dino Dini's Goal'' is a soccer video game A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, ...

'', a 1993 game for Amiga, Atari ST and PC

Literature

* ''Goal'' (children's novel), a children's novel by Michael Hardcastle * ''The Goal'' (novel), a 1984 management-oriented novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Other uses

GOAL (organization) John O'Shea (born 1944) is the founder and former Chief executive officer, CEO of GOAL (organization), GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organization devoted to assisting the poor. His first career was as a sports journalist and GOAL retains link ...

, a charitable organisation founded by Irish humanitarian John O'Shea *

Goal (website) Goal, stylized in all caps and alternatively known as Goal.com, is a website currently dedicated to the coverage of international association football. Currently owned by the Integrated Media Company (IMC) division of TPG Inc. since 2020, it is ...

, a football news website owned by FootballCo. *

Goal mac Morn A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan, and commit to achieve. People endeavour to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. A goal is roughly similar to ...

or Goll mac Morna, a character in Irish mythology *

Global Overseas Adoptees' Link Global Overseas Adoptees' Link (G.O.A.'L) is an organization in Seoul, South Korea, for adoptees. History The first major task of GOAL was to lobby for the inclusion of adoptees in the Overseas Koreans Act. This act was passed in 1999 and allowed ...

, a South Korean agency that aids Korean overseas adoptees *

GOAL agent programming language GOAL is an agent programming language for programming cognitive agents. GOAL agents derive their choice of action from their beliefs and goals. The language provides the basic building blocks to design and implement cognitive agents by programmin ...

, a high-level programming language for programming rational agents *

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL, also known as Game Object Assembly Lisp) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, made for video games developed by Andy Gavin and the ''Jak and Daxter'' team at the company Naughty Dog. It w ...

, a video game programming language * A trade name for the herbicide