Soccer 54

Playing soccer with playing cards!

Materials: standard deck of playing cards
Ages: 8 and up
Players: 1-2

Soccer 54

Using six cards in your hand, challenge for possession to move a soccer ball up and down a 3x3 field in order to get the best shot on goal. Whoever scores the most goals wins the half. Play another to decide the match!

• Playing time: 10 minutes.
  
• Rules: (see Download below)
• Quick play guide
• Video: watch a playthrough of Soccer 54.
• Play Soccer 54 online at PlayingCards.io.

More about the origin of Soccer 54.

PK Shootout 24

Learn to shoot and save in this standalone version of overtime in Soccer 54.

• Playing time: 5 minutes.
• Rules: (see Download below)
  
• Video: watch a playthrough of PK Shootout 24.
  
• Play PK Shootout 24 online at PlayingCards.io.

Soccer 54: Premier!

A more tactical version of Soccer 54!

• Finalist in the 2025 Spring Deck Hand Games design contest (pitch video)! 
• I've added 18 action cards that can help or hurt your game.
• Playtested at Protospiel Online (May 2025)
• Available for purchase exclusively on September, 21, 2025 at Game Market West.
• Playing time: 15 minutes.

Playtested

• Contact me if you would like to playtest these games.
• Follow my game design process on Bluesky using the #Soccer54 hashtag.

Testimonials

• Mike Berg: "I *love* the idea of doing it with a standard deck!"
• Nick Drage: "The game Soccer 54 divides a standard deck of playing cards into two sets, 4-10, and the A-3 and face cards combined; how common is that as a mechanism?"
• Northwest Game Labs: "Set up is a bit of shuffling, a bit of dealing, but you get into the game and start seeing a lot of clever, tight game design unfold. Hand management, bluffing, the way you have to juggle the ball around if you don't have the right cards to score... Nice!"
• Northwest Game Labs: "Nothing seems wasted or unnecessary, it all flows together very well and has an elegance to it."