British Foosball Association

How To Play Table Football

Player Skills

Table Football is much more than a game of spinning bars and hoping to hit the ball towards the goal. The best way to improve is to attend tournaments and learn from more experienced players, whilst practicing the basic and some of the more advanced skills discussed in this section.

• Basic Attacking
  
• Basic Defending
  
• Basic Blocking
  
• Tournament Play
  

The Basic Skills sections provide an overview for developing the key attacking, defending and blocking skills, whilst emphasising the importance of control, timing, positioning and accuracy.

The Advanced Skills and Tournament Play sections cover in more detail some of the specific skills required play at the highest level.

The art of Table Football is discussed in great detail on the various players' message boards, notably BritFoos and RSTS.