Football darts, aka Football 501: name footballers to count down from 501 by their real stats. Free, no account - daily challenge and 2-6 player pass-and-play.
Football darts is the name that stuck to a game that started at pub tables and on car journeys: pick a stat, take turns naming footballers, and count down from 501 by their real numbers, exactly as a darts player counts down from 501 by the score of each visit. It spread because it needs nothing but two people who know their football, and it turned into a phone-in-hand game once looking up a player's career goals took five seconds rather than a trip to the encyclopaedia.
The darts rules came with it. A single visit can't beat 180, so a player worth more than 180 is a bust; the finishes that can't be hit on a real board are busts too; and you can't go past the finishing zone. What changed as the game moved online is the finish itself - the strict exact-zero of the pub version became a 0 to -10 landing zone, which keeps the endgame playable without a calculator - and the arguments about whose number is right, which disappear when every name is scored against one database.
There is also a completely different thing called football darts: a giant inflatable velcro dartboard that you kick footballs at, hired for fetes and stag weekends. If that's the one you were looking for, the football darts rules guide covers both. The game on this page is the countdown: play the daily challenge free with no account, or set up your own filters and pass the phone round.
Football darts, also called Football 501, is a free online game that turns a game of darts into a football trivia contest. Instead of throwing darts you name footballers, and each player is worth their real career stat (goals, appearances, assists or clean sheets). That number is subtracted from your score as you race down from 501 to zero.
Usually, yes. Football 501 is the countdown version of football darts: name footballers, subtract their real stat from 501, first to check out wins. The other thing people mean by football darts is the inflatable velcro dartboard you kick footballs at - a party game rather than a quiz. This page is the countdown game, playable online.
You can. The pub variant is to throw a dart and then name a player whose stat matches the number you hit, or to use the board for the countdown and the names for the checkout. Most groups skip the board entirely and just play the countdown with a phone to look up the numbers - and here the site does the looking up for you.
Yes. Play pass-and-play with up to 6 people on a single phone, compare scores on the daily challenge, or climb the solo and weekly leaderboards. Everyone gets the same daily challenge, so you can all try the same puzzle and share your checkout.
Yes, all of it. The daily challenge, unlimited solo games with your own filters and pass-and-play for up to six people are free with no account, and you can play right now. A free account adds streaks, the daily and weekly leaderboards, and saves the games you have played.
Checkout means finishing: landing your score exactly between 0 and -10, first player to do it wins. Bust means an illegal move that ends your turn with no change - naming a player worth over 180 (no single dart beats 180), an impossible darts finish (163, 166, 169, 172, 173, 175, 176, 178, 179), a score below -10, or a player you've already used.