Free Futsal scoreboard
Keep Futsal score live on your phone and share the match with anyone — free to watch, no account needed to follow along.
Futsal moves fast — five a side on a hard court, and the goals pile up quicker than anyone can keep in their head. With ScoreZen you tap once for each goal on your phone and hold the running score across both halves. Whether it's a league night in the sports hall, a weekend tournament, or a kickabout with friends, everyone watching follows along live.
Why score Futsal with ScoreZen
- One-tap scoring, built for Futsal
- Share the live score by QR code or link
- Free for spectators — no app to install to watch
- Keeps working if the connection drops
- 34 sports, tournaments and standings included
How Futsal scoring works
A goal is awarded when the whole ball crosses the goal line between the posts, with no infringement. Each goal counts as one point. The score is the total number of goals each team scores across the match.
Match format
A match consists of two 20-minute periods of effective playing time, separated by a break of about 15 minutes. If a knockout match is tied, extra time and/or a penalty shoot-out may apply depending on the competition rules.
How to win
The team that has scored the most goals at the end of regulation wins. If level, the match is a draw, unless the competition uses extra time and a shoot-out to decide it.
Recommended ScoreZen setup
Set futsal to goal-based scoring (tap +1). The Official preset gives two timed 20-minute periods; the Casual preset shortens the period length. A per-team accumulated-foul counter (reset each period) is available, and its cap can be set in Custom mode. No target score: end the match when time runs out.
What the table actually counts in futsal
A goal is worth one, and nothing else touches the score. What makes futsal demanding is what you keep beside it: a clock that stops, an accumulated foul count per team per period, one time-out per team per period, and after a sending-off a two-minute countdown. At least there is no offside - Law 11 says so in one sentence.
Two periods of 20 minutes of playing time. The timekeeper stops the chronometer whenever the ball is out of play, on every goal, free kick, penalty or injury. Half-time never exceeds 15 minutes, and a 20-minute period eats about 35 real minutes: build the schedule on that. Each team has one time-out of one minute per period; an unused one is not carried over, and extra time allows none at all.
Only fouls punished by a direct free kick or a penalty accumulate, counted team by team and period by period, the fifth flagged on the table. From a team's sixth, the opponent gets a direct free kick with no wall from the 10 m mark, and the kicker must try to score directly - unless that sixth foul was committed inside the offender's own penalty area, which makes it a penalty instead. And if the foul happened between the 10 m line and the goal, the attacking team chooses: the 10 m mark, or the spot where it was committed. The count resets at half-time, but second-period fouls carry into extra time.
(FIFA, Futsal Laws of the Game 2024-25, in force since 4 November 2024: Law 7 for duration and time-outs, Laws 13.4 and 13.5 for accumulated fouls, Law 3.8 for the two-minute reduction, Law 6 for the timekeeper.)
The table mistakes that decide futsal matches
The expensive mistake is counting the wrong fouls. A goalkeeper who controls the ball - with the hands or the feet - for more than four seconds in his own half, dangerous play, blocking his release: those are indirect free kicks and they never accumulate. Two of them in the wrong column and you have handed a team a 10 m shot the Laws never awarded. And on the advantage, the foul is signalled only once the ball is next out of play - watch the referee, not the ball.
Fouls reset at half-time and only at half-time: the second period's count follows the team into extra time. Then the two minutes after a sending-off - playing time, not your watch, and the substitute enters only with the authorisation of the timekeeper or the third referee. They can end early: at five against four or four against three, a goal by the bigger team restores a player to the short one; at five against three, only one comes back; with both teams reduced, nobody returns before serving their own two minutes.
And the buzzer is not always the end: if a sixth-foul free kick or a penalty was awarded as the period ran out, the period ends only once that kick is completed, so a goal after the signal can count. Write the scorer's number down as the ball goes in, with the cards and the time-outs. At the end of a 4-3, nobody agrees who scored the second.
A futsal day: the table, the sheet and the running order
The table sits off the pitch, level with the halfway line, on the same side as the substitution zones. The timekeeper stays seated there; the third referee may stand. It is the only place from which you see both substitution zones, and flying substitutions are where a match is lost administratively.
Kit: a chronometer you stop and restart with one hand, the equipment needed to keep a record of the accumulated fouls, a clearly visible sign to place on the table when a team reaches five, and the document officials use to request a time-out. International matches require a third referee and a timekeeper, on a chronometer able to run several two-minute reductions at once while tracking both foul counts.
Before kick-off, take both team lists with shirt numbers - a name not given to the referees before the start cannot come on later - plus the captains and the goalkeepers' shirts. At half-time two things change: the foul counts return to zero, and each team swaps substitution zone, since a team's zone sits in the half it defends.
Levels differ more than people expect. National and international: two referees on court, a third referee and a timekeeper at the table, a genuine 20 minutes of playing time. Many regional and district competitions run a continuous clock instead, with a reduced table and a duration set by the competition rules - the Laws allow those 20 minutes to be reduced, never extended. On a tournament day, six or eight matches on one court, that choice decides whether you finish on time.
What ScoreZen changes for futsal
You score from your phone: the countdown for the two 20-minute periods, the goals, and on the same screen each team's accumulated foul counter, which resets at half-time and warns you the moment a team reaches five, so the sixth is never a surprise. The one-minute time-out per team per period is there, and the cards too.
After a sending-off, the two-minute countdown runs on playing time, not on the wall clock: it freezes as soon as you stop the chronometer, exactly as the Laws count it. If a conceded goal brings the player back earlier, that stays the referees' call and yours. If the tie goes to penalties, the shoot-out panel keeps that count off the score.
Share the match with a link, or a QR code taped to the door of the hall. Parents, grandparents and the suspended player follow the live score from anywhere; spectators are free, unlimited and never need an account. TV mode fills a screen or a laptop plugged into a television, the transparent overlay drops the score into OBS, and the A4 score sheet prints for the paper trail.
For a tournament, ScoreZen runs knockout with an optional third-place match, home-and-away championship, pools then a final bracket, Swiss system, best-of-3 and best-of-5 series, and rotating teams. One QR code covers the whole tournament: each player finds their own match and scores it from their phone while you follow every court from the table. Afterwards the replay and the vertical story are shareable, the club site embeds the widget, the season exports to CSV, and the read-only public API needs no key. It keeps counting without a signal and syncs back up, in 25 languages, across 34 sports. Three trial matches are free for life; after that, €1.99once unlocks it for life.
Frequently asked questions
How do you keep up with futsal's fast scoring on a phone?
Tap once each time a goal goes in — that's all it takes, even when they come in bursts. ScoreZen runs on any phone with no ads to slow you down, and the running total updates live for every spectator you've shared the QR code or link with.
How long is a futsal match, and does the clock really stop?
Two periods of 20 minutes of playing time. The timekeeper stops the chronometer every time the ball leaves play, at every goal, free kick, penalty or injury, then restarts it at the resumption. Half-time never exceeds 15 minutes, and a 20-minute period takes about 35 minutes of real time. Many regional competitions run a continuous clock instead, with the duration set by their own competition rules.
What happens from the sixth accumulated foul in futsal?
Only fouls punished by a direct free kick or a penalty accumulate, counted per team and per period. From a team's sixth in a period, the opponent gets a direct free kick with no wall from the 10 m mark, and the kicker must try to score directly - unless the foul was committed inside the offender's own penalty area, which makes it a penalty. If it happened between the 10 m line and the goal, the attacking team chooses between the 10 m mark and the spot itself. The count resets at half-time, but second-period fouls carry into extra time.
Can my players score their own matches during a futsal tournament?
Yes. One QR code covers the whole tournament: each player scans it, finds their own match and scores it from their phone. You stay at the table and watch every court move, and the results feed the pools, the Swiss system or the bracket automatically. Spectators just open the link, and never create an account.
How much does it cost, and can I try it first?
Three trial matches, free, for life, with no card. After that, one payment of €1.99unlocks ScoreZen for life, and spectators stay free however many follow. If your competition still wants paper, the A4 score sheet prints from the match you scored on your phone, with the score, the teams, the date and the public link.