Button Soccer 3D

The table
is set

The classic button soccer game, remade in 3D.Free to play in your browser.

  • Laptop & desktop

    Play now in your browser

  • Tablet & phone

    Coming soon

Choose your nation

  • URUGUAY
  • BRAZIL
  • ARGENTINA
  • COLOMBIA
  • BOLIVIA
  • CHILE
  • ECUADOR
  • PARAGUAY
  • PERU
  • VENEZUELA
  • ITALY
  • GERMANY
  • ENGLAND
  • FRANCE
  • SPAIN
  • PORTUGAL
  • NETHERLANDS
  • BELGIUM
  • CROATIA
  • DENMARK
  • ALBANIA
  • ANDORRA
  • ARMENIA
  • AUSTRIA
  • AZERBAIJAN
  • BELARUS
  • BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
  • BULGARIA
  • CYPRUS
  • CZECHIA
  • ESTONIA
  • FAROE ISLANDS
  • FINLAND
  • GEORGIA
  • GIBRALTAR
  • GREECE
  • HUNGARY
  • ICELAND
  • ISRAEL
  • KAZAKHSTAN
  • KOSOVO
  • LATVIA
  • LIECHTENSTEIN
  • LITHUANIA
  • LUXEMBOURG
  • MALTA
  • MOLDOVA
  • MONTENEGRO
  • NORTH MACEDONIA
  • NORTHERN IRELAND
  • NORWAY
  • POLAND
  • REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
  • ROMANIA
  • RUSSIA
  • SAN MARINO
  • SCOTLAND
  • SERBIA
  • SLOVAKIA
  • SLOVENIA
  • SWEDEN
  • SWITZERLAND
  • TURKIYE
  • UKRAINE
  • WALES
  • USA
  • MEXICO
  • CANADA
  • ANGUILLA
  • ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
  • ARUBA
  • BAHAMAS
  • BARBADOS
  • BELIZE
  • BERMUDA
  • BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
  • CAYMAN ISLANDS
  • COSTA RICA
  • CUBA
  • CURACAO
  • DOMINICA
  • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • EL SALVADOR
  • GRENADA
  • GUATEMALA
  • GUYANA
  • HAITI
  • HONDURAS
  • JAMAICA
  • MONTSERRAT
  • NICARAGUA
  • PANAMA
  • PUERTO RICO
  • SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
  • SAINT LUCIA
  • SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
  • SURINAME
  • TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
  • TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
  • US VIRGIN ISLANDS
  • MOROCCO
  • ALGERIA
  • ANGOLA
  • BENIN
  • BOTSWANA
  • BURKINA FASO
  • BURUNDI
  • CAMEROON
  • CAPE VERDE
  • CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
  • CHAD
  • COMOROS
  • CONGO
  • DR CONGO
  • DJIBOUTI
  • EGYPT
  • EQUATORIAL GUINEA
  • ERITREA
  • ESWATINI
  • ETHIOPIA
  • GABON
  • GAMBIA
  • GHANA
  • GUINEA
  • GUINEA-BISSAU
  • IVORY COAST
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
  • LIBYA
  • MADAGASCAR
  • MALAWI
  • MALI
  • MAURITANIA
  • MAURITIUS
  • MOZAMBIQUE
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • NIGERIA
  • RWANDA
  • SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
  • SENEGAL
  • SEYCHELLES
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • SOUTH SUDAN
  • SUDAN
  • TANZANIA
  • TOGO
  • TUNISIA
  • UGANDA
  • ZAMBIA
  • ZIMBABWE
  • JAPAN
  • SOUTH KOREA
  • AFGHANISTAN
  • AUSTRALIA
  • BAHRAIN
  • BANGLADESH
  • BHUTAN
  • BRUNEI
  • CAMBODIA
  • CHINA
  • CHINESE TAIPEI
  • GUAM
  • HONG KONG
  • INDIA
  • INDONESIA
  • IRAN
  • IRAQ
  • JORDAN
  • NORTH KOREA
  • KUWAIT
  • KYRGYZSTAN
  • LAOS
  • LEBANON
  • MACAU
  • MALAYSIA
  • MALDIVES
  • MONGOLIA
  • MYANMAR
  • NEPAL
  • OMAN
  • PAKISTAN
  • PALESTINE
  • PHILIPPINES
  • QATAR
  • SAUDI ARABIA
  • SINGAPORE
  • SRI LANKA
  • SYRIA
  • TAJIKISTAN
  • THAILAND
  • TIMOR-LESTE
  • TURKMENISTAN
  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
  • UZBEKISTAN
  • VIETNAM
  • YEMEN
  • AMERICAN SAMOA
  • COOK ISLANDS
  • FIJI
  • NEW CALEDONIA
  • NEW ZEALAND
  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA
  • SAMOA
  • SOLOMON ISLANDS
  • TAHITI
  • TONGA
  • VANUATU

Every FIFA nation, 211 of them, each button carrying its flag, as the game turns them.

How it works

1

Opponent

The computer or a friend

Play the computer, or a friend on the same screen: VS AI or VS HUMAN.

OPPONENT: VS AI or VS HUMAN
2

Nation

Pick your nation

Your nation's button, its flag wrapped round it and its World Cup stars over it.

NATION: the nations' buttons with their World Cup stars
3

Formation

Set your shape

Choose from five classic formations and watch your team line up on the pitch.

FORMATION: Brazil lined up in 4-3-3, FIND MATCH below
4

Kick-off

Find a match

The computer finds you an opponent, both sides line up, and kick-off counts down.

CONNECTED: Brazil v Argentina, kick-off in 4

Controls

Every flick in four moves, with a mouse or trackpad and a few keys.

  1. Pick

    Click one of your buttons. The camera flies to its shoulder, the ball ahead.

  2. Lock

    Click a spot on its rim: high on the edge chips the ball, low drives it on.

  3. Pull

    Press and drag: down for power, across to aim. The dots show where your button will run.

  4. Flick

    Let go and the flicker strikes. Hit the ball off-centre and it curls.

  • SCall your shot
  • TabSwitch button
  • EnterReady
  • ArrowsMove the spot
  • EscBack
  • Right-clickCancel a pull

Game features

A smooth collectible-toy look, with the physics of the table and the presentation of a broadcast.

The esports room, its table under the lights

The room

One table in one esports room: the lights, the screens, the scoreboard ribbon in 3D letters.

A Brazil button lining up a shot at Argentina's goal

Real physics

Buttons slide and spin, the ball skids, curls and chips; posts, a crossbar and nets that give.

The shoulder view behind an Argentina button, the ball ahead

The flick

Drop to your button's shoulder, pull back for power, aim along its dotted run and let it fly.

The replay of Brazil's goal: the ball in the net, 1-0 on the ribbon

Replays

Every goal lights the room in the scorer's colours and plays again from the broadcast camera — saved automatically, ready to share.

The coin toss on the centre spot

The real rules

The coin toss, touches, fouls and penalties, corners, throw-ins and goal kicks, each placed.

The matchup card, AI v AI: Brazil v Argentina, both in 4-4-2

A real opponent

The computer reads the table, calls its shots and places its keeper, at a person's pace.

Gameplay

Button soccer as it's played on the table — against the computer, or a friend on the same screen.

Lining up a called shot

Call it, and the other side places its keeper on its line before you flick.

A foul gives the other side a free kick where it happened; its taker can't touch the ball again until a teammate has.

A foul in the box: one flick from the spot at the keeper on its line, and the taker can't play it again until the keeper has.

Off a defender over its own byline: a corner from the flag, and one straight in counts — the olympic goal.

Over the touchline: the ball set on the line where it crossed, and the other side plays it back in.

A robot drives out from behind the goal, fetches the ball and sets it on the spot.

The rules

Button soccer as the game plays it, from the coin toss to the final whistle.

The match

Two halves of one minute each, on a clock that only runs while the ball is rolling.

When time is up, the half ends the next time the ball goes out of play.

Kick-off

A coin toss decides who kicks off the first half; the other side starts the second, and after a goal the side that conceded restarts.

Before kicking off, that side may move up to two buttons anywhere in its own half.

Your turn

You have seven touches of the ball a turn.

A flick that misses the ball hands the turn to your opponent.

Called shots

Only called goals count: call your shot from your opponent's half, and they place their keeper before you flick.

An uncalled goal is a goal kick to the defence — unless it's a corner straight in, the olympic goal.

A called shot that stays in play goes to your opponent unless a team-mate touched it last.

Fouls

Hitting an opponent's button or keeper before the ball is a foul.

The fouled side takes a free kick where it happened, moving one button and its taker; buttons in the way are cleared.

Penalties

A foul inside the box is a penalty: a called shot from the spot.

Every button leaves the area, the keeper waits on its line, and the taker stands anywhere behind the ball inside the box or the arc.

Out of play

Over the touchline, it's a throw-in to the other side; over a byline, a corner or a goal kick, depending on who touched it last.

The Ball Retriever fetches the ball and sets it on its spot. A throw-in that doesn't reach a team-mate goes to the other side.

Corners and goal kicks

On a corner, both sides move up to three buttons, attackers first, then the keeper is placed.

On a goal kick, the attack moves up to four buttons and the keeper punts it with the boot. A ball that stops in a goal area is the keeper's.

The taker

After a corner, free kick or throw-in, the taker can't touch the ball again until a team-mate has; after a penalty, until the keeper has.

Breaking this gives the other side a free kick where it happened.

The origin

Button soccer grew up on Brazilian tabletops: two teams of flat buttons, struck with a small flicker into a little ball on a painted pitch.

Generations learned it on the kitchen table, and it grew into a sport of its own, with clubs, federations and championships. Cousins like Subbuteo carried the idea around the world.

Button Soccer 3D keeps its soul — the flicker, the touches, the called shot — and brings it to your screen.

The table, reborn

On the table

  • Setting upA table, two sets, a ball, a flicker
  • Out of playSomeone fetches the ball
  • A great goalGone in a second
  • Your sidesThe sets you own
  • No one to playNo match

Button Soccer 3D

  • Setting upA browser tab
  • Out of playThe Ball Retriever fetches it
  • A great goalA light show and a replay
  • Your sidesEvery FIFA nation
  • No one to playThe computer's ready

What's next

Where Button Soccer 3D goes from here. Follow along for each one as it lands.

Online matches

Play a friend anywhere, with matchmaking and spectating.

Ranked games

Ranked matches played on skill alone: no dotted run for your button and no arrow for the ball.

Global leaderboard

Rank against players around the world, and see where your nation stands.

Tablet & phone

Touch controls built for smaller screens: a thumb-sized pull and pinch to zoom.

Clubs*

Club sides back in the game, alongside every nation.

*Subject to licensing.

Your language

The game speaks your device's language: English, Portuguese and Spanish to start, then every major language.

FAQ

What is button soccer?

Football on a table: flat buttons for players, flicked into a ball. It grew up in Brazil; Subbuteo-style table football is its cousin elsewhere.

Is it really free?

Yes: every side, every formation and the computer opponent, with no account and nothing to install.

What do I need to play?

A laptop or desktop with a recent browser — Chrome, Edge or Firefox — and a mouse or trackpad. Tablets and phones are coming soon.

Can I play a friend online?

Not yet: two players share one screen, taking turns. Online matches are on the way.

Does it work on phones?

Not yet: for now it plays fully on a laptop or desktop. Tablets and phones are coming soon.

How long is a match?

Two halves, the clock running only while the ball rolls in play — a few minutes a match.