Next Goal Wins 2020

Next Goal Wins is a fast-paced, strategic game of team building and head to head football rivalry.

Each player drafts a team of seven footballers from each of the classic positions - Goalkeepers, Defenders, Midfielders and Attackers - to take them through a league in which they will play a head-to-head match against each other player of the game. A win is worth three points, a draw worth one point and loss gets you nothing. At the end of the league, the player with the most points will be crowned as the champion.

In a match, both players will put forward a squad of four of their players from each of the positions. With three attacks each, it's up to each player to pass, punt, dribble, cross and ultimately shoot or head the ball past the opposing player's goalkeeper with their attacker, decided by stat-to-stat comparisons aided by the roll of six-sided die. Win the clash to move the ball forward, but lose and your attack will be ended by a block, tackle or save and the ball given to the other player.

Outside of matches, pick up event cards to alter the landscape of the game both inside and outside of matches - sometimes in your favour, sometimes not - and patch up weaknesses in your team makeup by transferring new players in.

Beware, to finish at the top of the league it'll take talent and luck!

—description from the designer