The Football Masters series is a free predicting game that runs genuinely all year round. Our season gets started even while the football has stopped, with our ‘Freeze’ contest to guess how the Premier League will finish.
While we call it a free football game, in truth it’s loads of mini games. Below is our calendar for the entire season. Further details on how each individual competition works are at the bottom, or by clicking here.
| Week # | Tournament | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-3 |  Fortress: Germany | 17 Aug - 1 September | |
| 4-6 |  Predictor: Scottish Masters | 2 - 22 September | |
| 7-10 |  Goalfest Brazil | 23 Sep - 20 October | |
| 11-13 |  Match Fixer: Sierra Leone | 21 Oct - 10 November | |
| 14-16 | Goalfest Argentina | 11 Nov - 1 December | |
| 17-20 | Fortress: Italy [Major Tournament] | 2 - 29 December | |
| 17-20 |  Christmas Cherrypicker | Throughout December | |
| 21 |  New Year Madness | 30 Dec - 5 January | |
| 22-24 | Match Fixer: South Korea | 6 - 26 January | |
| 25-27 | Predictor: Aussie Masters | 27 Jan - 16 February | |
| 28-31 | Match Fixer: France | 17 Feb - 16 March | |
| 32-34 | Goalfest USA | 17 Mar - 6 April | |
| 35-37 | Fortress: Spain | 7 - 27 April | |
| 38-41 | Predictor: Amsterdam Open [Major Tournament] | 28 Apr - 25 May (Last day of EPL season) | |
| 42+ |  Masters Series: Grand Slam Final | 20 May onwards |
Our Competitions
Not just one free football game - there's plenty of them
The Predictor
The original football masters series game. The basic rules are simple – each weekend you’ll get a set of games to guess the scores for. The closer you are, the better you’ll do.
- A 100% correct score gets you three points.
- The correct margin of victory gets you two points (ie you guess 3-1 and the score is 2-0).
- A correct result wins you one point (ie you guess 0-1 and the actual score is 1-4).
If two teams are tied on points then it comes down to ‘goal difference’ – in other words, if your opponent guessed there would be 25 goals across all the games you’ve predicted on that weekend, you guessed there would be 30 and there were actually 35, then you’ll be ahead of them on goal difference.
Goalfest
If anything, even more fiendishly simple than the Predictor. The basic rules are: we give you a selection of games for the coming weekend. Your job is to pick the ones that will have the most goals. Every goal scored in your games will send you further up the table.
It’s as simple as that. So if you pick five games and they have 24 goals in them, and your friend picks five games with 12 goals in total, then you’ll be ahead of them in the league by 12. Until next weekend, of course, when they get a chance for revenge…
Fortress
Where every weekend is a bona fide 12-pointer. Instead of picking matches (like Goals Goals Goals), this time you are picking teams. Let’s say you choose four teams playing in that weekend’s games, and they all win 3-0. You’ll be on 12 points in the league (3 points for a win, multiplied by four), with a goal difference of +12. Keep that up for the next three or four weeks, and you’ll have won a title for your troubles.
Games will generally be across Europe (and maybe beyond), so you’ll need to keep an eye on some results across the continent.
Match Fixer
Like Fortress, you pick the team you want to win at the weekend. But in an added match-fixing twist, you also pick the opponents as well.
So let’s say you choose Liverpool as your team and Arsenal as your opponent. If Liverpool score 3 goals in their game and Arsenal score 1, then it’s a 3-1 win and you get three points to add to the leaderboard (and +2 goal difference).
It doesn’t matter if Liverpool actually lost 4-3 to Man City, or Arsenal won 1-0 against Crystal Palace. As far as we’re concerned it’s ‘Liverpool 3, Arsenal 1’. The perfect crime.
Freeze: Premier League
We ask you to guess where teams are going to finish in the Premier League that season. You win based on how close you are to the final result – so this game plays out for way, way longer than some of the others here. We will do this twice – once during the summer break before the league has got going, and again at around Christmas time. So you can correct course if you’re going wildly wrong – or double down if you think you’re on track to triumph.
For all of our tournaments, we use a ‘speed score’ as our final tiebreaker. Put simply, if you are first to predict each week, your speed score for that tournament is 1 – the next person’s is 2, 3, etc. If two or more players are tied on points, goal difference, everything else, then it’s your speed score that wins – so the earlier you play, the better.
If two teams are still tied, then it’s a draw and they share whatever prize, ranking points or glory is on offer.