The ITSF sport — the game commonly called foosball in the United States
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You control the four red rods. Every figure on a rod is rigidly fixed to it: you cannot move a figure to the ball, you move a rod and all of its figures go together. That is the whole game, and it is why the sport's skills are passing between your own figures, pinning the ball and the pull shot.
From the ITSF Standard Matchplay Rules, version 2.0 (December 2023). That document names its rules rather than numbering them, so each is cited by name and section.
A figure can only reach the strip of table its rod sweeps. With the reconstructed figure geometry that strip is 52.9 mm either side of the rod, against a rod pitch of 150 mm — so between every pair of rods there is a band 44.3 mm wide that no figure on either side can reach at any lateral position. There are 9 such bands in all, 29.5% of the table's length, and they are drawn faintly on the field. This is not a simplification: the reach limit follows from the ball being small and low, and the ITSF rulebook confirms the bands exist by giving a dedicated restart location for a “dead ball between the 5-rods” — which is exactly the widest of them.
Playing surface 120 x 70 cm, goals 20 x 8 cm, figures 70 mm tall, ball 34.5 mm and 18.75 g. Figure counts per rod: 1, 2, 5 and 3. Rod travel is derived, not chosen: a rod slides until an outer figure would leave the playfield, so a 5-rod has only 124 mm of travel and a goalkeeper rod has 684 mm. Physics runs at a fixed 480 Hz substep regardless of your display.
5 points a game, 3 of 5 games a match, and the deciding game needs a margin of 2 points, capped at 8. The current ITSF ruleset deliberately leaves both numbers to the tournament director; these are the defaults from the superseded 2016 rulebook, which is the only place they are written down.
Difficulty here is a reaction time, not an aim error. The opponent reads the ball as it was some milliseconds ago and plans from that: rookie 380 ms, club 230 ms, pro 110 ms. Its commands go through the same rate-limited rods and the same input path yours do.
This is an independent reimplementation of a sport, not of a product. Table football has no single author: the earliest patent is Harold Searles Thornton's British patent GB 205,991, filed in 1921 and granted in 1923; Lucien Rosengart popularised it in France in the 1930s, and Alejandro Finisterre patented a version in Spain in 1937. The sport is governed by the International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF), founded in 2002, whose Standard Matchplay Rules this game follows.
On the name. In the United States this game is usually called foosball. That word is a live United States trademark, so it is not used as this app's name — but it is what you are looking for, and this is it.
The ITSF publishes no table or equipment dimension standard. Its rulebook contains no length, no mass and no dimension of any kind; the superseded 2016 rulebook says only that “the Official tables are voted by ITSF General Assembly”. The ITSF approves table models — Bonzini, Roberto Sport, Garlando, Tornado, Leonhart — and those models genuinely differ. So the geometry here is a documented nominal table, and these items are reconstructed:
No account, no network, no tracking. The only thing stored on your device is your chosen opponent level, ruleset and camera tilt.
Full sourcing, every reconstructed constant and every documented difference are in CREDITS.txt. llms.txt describes the app for machine readers.