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A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.

Goal may also refer to:

Sport

• Goal (sports), a method of scoring in many sports, or the physical structure or area where scoring occurs
  • Goals, the goal frame in association football
• Scoring in association football, goal scored when the ball passes completely over a goal line
  • Andrés Cantor (born 1962), Argentine sportscaster known for popularizing the extended "¡Gooool!" ("Goal!") interjection
• Goal (ice hockey), scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line
  • The Goal, the winning goal of the 1972 Summit Series
• Scoring in Gaelic games, for games such as hurling, camogie, and Gaelic football
• Drop goal, a scoring method used in rugby
• Field goal, a scoring method used in American and Canadian football
• Field goal (basketball), a basket scored on any shot other than a free throw

Arts, entertainment and media

Films

• Goal (1936 film), a 1936 Argentine sports film directed by Luis Moglia Barth
• Goal! (film series), a trilogy of football films
  • Goal! (film), 2005 British film
  • Goal II: Living the Dream, 2007 sequel
  • Goal III: Taking on the World, 2009 straight-to-DVD release
• Goal (2007 Hindi film), a 2007 Bollywood Hindi-language film based on football in the Asian community in England; titled Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal in India.
• Goal (2007 Malayalam film), a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Kamal
• Goal (2018 film), a 2018 Sinhala film
• Goal!, the 1966 official FIFA World Cup film

Games

• Goal! (video game), a 1988 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Goals (video game), a 2026 free-to-play video game for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S
• Dino Dini's Goal, a 1993 game for Amiga, Atari ST and PC

Literature

• Goal (children's novel), a children's novel by Michael Hardcastle
• The Goal (novel), a 1984 management-oriented novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Music

• "Goals" (song), by Lisa, Anitta, and Rema, 2026
• "Goals", by Anitta, 2018
• "Goals", by M.I.A., 2017
• "Goals", by Sophie Powers, 2025
• "Goals", by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, 2022

Other uses

• GOAL (organization), a charitable organisation founded by Irish humanitarian John O'Shea
• Goal (website), a football news website owned by FootballCo.
• Goal mac Morn or Goll mac Morna, a character in Irish mythology
• Global Overseas Adoptees' Link, a South Korean agency that aids Korean overseas adoptees
• GOAL agent programming language, a high-level programming language for programming rational agents
• Game Oriented Assembly Lisp, a video game programming language
• A trade name for the herbicide oxyfluorfen

See also

• Gaol or jail, a prison or remand center
• Goal line (disambiguation)
• Gol (disambiguation)
• Gole (disambiguation)
• Object (disambiguation)
• Objective (disambiguation)
• Purpose (disambiguation)
• Targeting (disambiguation)