Goal (disambiguation)

A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.

Goal may also refer to:

Sport

 * Goal (sports), 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, goal scored when the ball passes completely over a goal line
 * Goal (ice hockey), scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line
 * The Goal, the winning goal of the 1972 Summit Series
 * Scoring in Gaelic games, for games such as hurling, camogie, and Gaelic football
 * Drop goal, a scoring method used in rugby
 * Field goal, a scoring method used in American and Canadian football
 * Field goal (basketball), a basket scored on any shot other than a free throw

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, 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), a charitable organisation founded by Irish humanitarian John O'Shea
 * Goal (website), a football news website owned by FootballCo.
 * Goal mac Morn or Goll mac Morna, a character in Irish mythology
 * Global Overseas Adoptees' Link, a South Korean agency that aids Korean overseas adoptees
 * GOAL agent programming language, a high-level programming language for programming rational agents
 * Game Oriented Assembly Lisp, a video game programming language
 * A trade name for the herbicide oxyfluorfen