Goal (disambiguation)

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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
  • 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

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, 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

See also

  • Gaol or jail, a prison or remand center
  • Goal line (disambiguation)
  • Gol (disambiguation)
  • Gole (disambiguation)
  • Object (disambiguation)
  • Objective (disambiguation)
  • Purpose (disambiguation)
  • Targeting (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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