Goal (disambiguation)
# Goal (disambiguation)

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
* 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
* 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

## 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
