Official rules

How to play Fito Football

Two players, two teams of eleven disks, and a die for the ball. Take turns flicking your disks to move the die - and get it into your opponent's goal. Here is everything, lesson by lesson. Each lesson has a short video made from the game.

1. The pitch and the pieces
2. Setting up
3. The flick
4. Kick-off and scoring
5. Out of play
6. Fouls and the goalkeeper

Lesson 1

The pitch and the pieces

The pitch is a football pitch in miniature: 160 x 106 cm, with the real proportions of a football field. Each team defends one goal and attacks the other.
The penalty area is 62 x 25 cm. The small area is exactly as wide as the goal (20 cm) and 8 cm deep.
Each team has 11 disks: six attackers (numbers 6-11), four defenders (stacks numbered 2-5, two tall and two short) and the goalkeeper (number 1).
The goalkeeper stands in front of the arms-barrier, a round disk on the goal line that represents the keeper's hands.
The die is the ball.

Piece	Size	Weight
Attacker	40-50 mm wide, 2-4 mm high, bevel 45-90°	8-10 g
Defender	45 mm wide, 30 or 45 mm tall	15-30 g
Goalkeeper	40-50 mm wide, 2-5 mm thick	8-10 g

Lesson 2

Setting up

Place your disks anywhere in your own half. There is no fixed formation - find the one that fits your style.
No disk may cross the halfway line or stand inside your small area.
The goalkeeper stands upright in the goal, leaning on the arms-barrier.
When both teams are ready, a die roll decides who kicks off: the higher roll starts, with the die on the centre spot.

Lesson 3

The flick

Move a disk with one flick: press on your disk, pull back to aim, and let go. The further you pull, the stronger the flick (the power is shown in %).
Strike the side of the disk off-centre to add spin.
One flick per turn, then it's the other team's turn.
You have 15 seconds per turn. If time runs out, the turn passes to the other team.

On the real board: flick with your fingers only, from the side of the disk - never from the top, and no arm or hand movement.

Lesson 4

Kick-off and scoring

The kicking-off team has two flicks.
The first flick can't score. If the die goes into the goal from it, the goal doesn't count and it's a goal kick to the other team.
The second flick must be made by a different disk.
A goal is scored when the whole die crosses the goal line inside the goal. After a goal, the other team kicks off.
A match has two halves of 6 minutes; teams change ends at half time. The team with more goals wins - a draw is fine too.

Official: 15 seconds per turn and two halves of 6 minutes. You can choose other lengths in the game's menu.

Lesson 5

Out of play

Throw-in: if the die goes over a touch line, the other team throws it back in by hand from where it went out, then plays its turn.
A throw-in or goal kick that goes out goes to the other team. You can't score straight from a throw.
A disk that leaves the pitch comes back centred on the line where it crossed.
Over the goal line: a goal kick if an attacker touched it last, a corner if a defender did. There is never a throw-in from the goal line.
Goal kick: thrown from the small area. If it isn't taken within the turn time, the other team gets a corner.
Corner: choose any disk (even the keeper), place it outside the pitch one finger from the die, and flick. A corner can't score directly; the second flick, by a different disk, can. If the corner misses the die or goes out, it's a goal kick.

Lesson 6

Fouls and the goalkeeper

Foul: if your disk hits an opponent's disk before touching the die.
Free kick: the die is placed where the foul happened. The fouled team takes it with any disk, one finger from the die, with one flick - and it can score.
The team that fouled places the offending disk four fingers from the die. The clock stops while the free kick is set up.
While the keeper is in goal, the arms-barrier blocks shots.
The keeper may leave the goal to play - then the arms-barrier disappears. When the keeper stops inside its small area, it goes back to the goal.
The small area belongs to the keeper: other disks are pushed out, and if the die stops there it's a goal kick.

One "finger" = 1.6 cm.