🏆 FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 PREDICTION GAME

Rules & Scoring Guide

Predict match results, collect points and compete with other players. Please read all rules carefully before playing.

⚽ Predicting Matches

Predict the final score for every match in the tournament. You can add or update your prediction until 30 minutes after the scheduled match start time.

Example: If a match is scheduled to start at 22:00, predictions will remain open until 22:30. After this time, the match prediction will be locked automatically.

The prediction lock time is calculated from the official scheduled match time, not from the actual whistle/kickoff time.

If a match starts a few minutes late, the prediction deadline will not change. The system will still lock predictions 30 minutes after the original scheduled time.

The system uses server time for locking predictions. Please make sure your scores are entered and saved before the deadline.

Some knockout stage matches may not show team names at the beginning of the tournament because the qualified teams are not yet confirmed.

Once teams progress to the next round, matches will be updated. You can enter or change your prediction until that match is locked.

✅ Important Prediction Reminder

If you enter the score for only one team and leave the other team’s score empty, your prediction will be incomplete and you will receive:

0 Points for that match.

Scores are normally saved automatically after entering them.

Before predictions are locked, please refresh the page and confirm that your scores are showing correctly. It is each player’s responsibility to make sure predictions are saved.

📊 Scoring System

Group stage points are calculated based on the score at the end of normal time.

For knockout matches, the score after extra time will be used if extra time is played. Penalty shootout goals are not counted.

Type Points Description
Toto Score 2 Correct winner or correct draw prediction
Full Score 5 Exact match score prediction
Goal Bonus 1 Correct number of goals for a team
Goal Difference Bonus 1 Correct winner and correct goal difference

⭐ Golden Ball Multiplier

Each player receives one Golden Ball multiplier for the tournament. When activated on a match, your points from that match will be multiplied by:

2X Points

The Golden Ball can only be used once during the entire tournament.

You may move it to another match while that match is still open. After the selected match is locked, the Golden Ball cannot be changed.

❓ Bonus Questions

Bonus questions will be available from the knockout rounds. Answer them before the deadline to collect additional points.

🏅 Ranking Rules

If multiple players have the same total points, rankings will be decided by:

  1. Highest number of exact score predictions
  2. Highest number of correct match result predictions
  3. Highest number of correct bonus questions

Rules page

Predicting the matches

Predict the end score of all the matches in the tournament/competition. You have until 15 minutes before the start of a match to add or change your prediction.
The server time is used. No discussion about that, so be on time if you want to fill in your scores.

As you may have noticed the matches in the next stages are not yet filled at the beginning of the tournament. Once the teams are through to the next round, I will add them. These games can also be changed until 15 minutes before the game starts. Or, if you’re feeling lucky, you can predict them now.

The scoring

In the group phase the scores at the end of the game are used for the calculation of the scores. For final rounds the score at the end of the game including extra time is used. Goals in a penalty shoot-out are not taken into consideration.

You get points for predicting the correct winner of the match or prediction of a draw. We call this the toto score. In case you also predict the exact amount of goals scored, you get extra points. We call this the full score. If you got the goals correct you get the extra goal bonus, even if you didn’t get the match result correct (e.g. match ends in 1-1 and you predicted 0-1 you will still get 1 points). The last scoring options is the goal difference bonus: if you predict the correct winner, not the exact score, but you predicted the correct difference in goals, you get the goal difference bonus (e.g. you predicted 3-1 or 4-2 and result is 2-0).

points
toto score 2
full score 5
goal bonus 1
goal difference bonus 1

If you want to view the ranking, then go to the ranking page and pick the correct league. If you’re logged in, then the league for which you subscribed, is automatically picked.

The multiplier

Each player has one multiplier. If you enable a multiplier on a match, the score for that match is multiplied by 2. You may enable the multiplier on every match and you can change your mind and move the multiplier as long this match is still changeable. The multiplier is activated after the prediction for the match is locked. Once activated the multiplier cannot be moved anymore.

Same ranking?

When multiple players have the exact same amount of points, then the following sorting rules are applied on the ranking (most important one at the top):

  1. amount of full scores;
  2. amount of toto scores;
  3. amount of correct bonus questions.