Bola Social Soccer is a soccer game where you run your own club: you build a squad, upgrade a stadium and play matches and tournaments. It began as a Facebook game made by Three Melons, an Argentine studio from Buenos Aires, and this free browser edition by FB Games lets you play it in a current browser with an account of your own, no Flash and no Facebook. This guide explains what the game is, where it comes from, what happened to the original and to the Disney mobile version, and what is still missing in the beta.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create a free account of your own and start your club. It is a beta, so some parts are still missing.
Run your soccer club: build the squad, upgrade your stadium and compete in tournaments. It plays in the browser and your club is saved to your account.
In beta: parts of the game are still missing and errors may appear.
Bola Social Soccer is a soccer game with a club-management side. You get a squad, a simple stadium and an aerial view of your city, and you grow all of it by playing: matches pay Bollars, the game's money, your fans decide your level, and each level unlocks new buildings and stadium pieces. On screen the game calls itself simply BOLA.
Between matches you run the club. You choose the formation and the starters, boost your players with temporary power-ups at the gym, sign sponsors, buy stadium pieces and decide what to play: practice games, social matches against friends' clubs or tournaments. All three live behind the PLAY button.
Playing is free. This edition is a beta, so it is still a work in progress, and a later section lists what is missing.
Bola was made by Three Melons, an Argentine studio from Buenos Aires, and it was the studio's first original title. In March 2010 Playdom announced that it was buying Three Melons, and by then Bola was already on Facebook as a soccer game.
Disney bought Playdom on July 27, 2010. Because the sale happened with Bola already published by Three Melons, the game's history involves both names, and 2010 press coverage describes Bola as a Three Melons game owned by Playdom.
We do not quote a launch date for the Facebook version because we could not confirm one.
Wikipedia lists Bola among the games Playdom discontinued, without giving a date. So if you are asking whether Bola Social Soccer is still playable, the original Facebook version is listed as discontinued, and what you can open today is a browser edition like this one.
On July 3, 2014, Disney released Disney Bola Soccer (Disney Bola Football in some regions), a free game for iOS and Android that took the Facebook game to mobile. It is a different product with no relationship to this edition, and we cannot tell you whether it is still available in the app stores.
This is a browser edition run by FB Games, an independent project. It is free, it is in beta, and you play it at bola.fbgamesweb.com. It is not an official site of Three Melons, Playdom or Disney, and it is not a mobile app.
You do not need Facebook. There is no Facebook sign-in or any other social login: you create an account with a username and a password, and the progress of the old Facebook game is not imported, so everybody starts a new club.
It is also not Wild Ones. Wild Ones Rebirth is a different game on FB Games, a turn-based artillery game with pets, and it has nothing to do with soccer.
The game itself comes in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German and Turkish. There is no Russian or Chinese version of the game, although the public front page can be shown in seven languages.
A new club has 18 players: 2 goalkeepers, 6 defenders, 5 midfielders and 5 forwards, of whom 11 are starters and 7 are substitutes. Their names are generated at random.
The stadium is built piece by piece. There are 64 pieces in 17 types, including 4 pitches, four sides with 5 options each, four corners with 4 options each and 24 pieces of surroundings.
For competition there are 9 individual tournaments, each with 4 clubs (you and 3 rivals) playing a single round. The World Battle puts countries against each other: you pick one of 12 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Germany, England, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, the United States or Uruguay), and challenges against clubs from other countries earn points for yours, 3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, with a world ranking.
Sponsors are the money side: there are four, with contracts of 7 or 14 days that pay between 400 and 1,600 Bollars a day, and requirements that go from no fans at all to 2,000 fans.
The Fans building and the kits tab are marked “Coming soon”, and the international cup tournament and the World Battle achievements are not in the game yet.
Matches are simplified as well. They have goals, throw-ins, goal kicks, corners, fouls (only on slide tackles), free kicks with a wall, penalties and a pause, but no cards, injuries, substitutions or offside.
The sound and music are this edition's own, not the original's. Expect some rough edges and the occasional error; you can report problems with a support ticket from inside the game.
To start a club, read the guide on how to play Bola Social Soccer. If you came looking for a private server, the guide on that topic explains how accounts, rules and support work on this one. There are also guides about playing without Flash, about mobile, about downloads and about games like Bola Social Soccer.
Whichever you pick, the quickest way to find out whether you like it is to open the game and play a practice match. Sign-up asks for a username, a club name, a country and a password, and nothing else.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Bola Social Soccer is a soccer and club-management game: you build a squad, choose a formation, upgrade your stadium and play practice matches, matches against friends' clubs and tournaments. This FB Games edition runs for free in your browser with an account of your own, and it is in beta, so some parts are still missing.
Bola Social Soccer was made by Three Melons, an Argentine studio from Buenos Aires, as its first original title. Playdom announced the purchase of the studio in March 2010, when Bola was already on Facebook, and Disney bought Playdom on July 27, 2010. This browser edition is run by FB Games, which is independent of all of them.
Yes, Bola Social Soccer started as a Facebook game, but you do not need Facebook in this edition. You sign up with a username, a club name, a country and a password, and there is no social login. Progress from the Facebook version is not imported, so you start a new club.
Wikipedia lists the original Bola among the games Playdom discontinued, without giving a date. You can play the Bola Social Soccer browser edition at bola.fbgamesweb.com. It is free and in beta, which means parts of the game are missing and errors can appear.
Yes, playing Bola Social Soccer on FB Games is free. The game also has a second currency, Melon Cash, and donations to get more of it are voluntary and are requested through a support ticket inside the game. Creating an account takes only a username, a club name, a country and a password.
Disney Bola Soccer, called Disney Bola Football in some regions, was released by Disney on July 3, 2014 as a free game for iOS and Android that took the Facebook game to mobile. It is a different product from this Bola Social Soccer browser edition, and we cannot confirm whether it is still in the app stores.
No. Bola Social Soccer is a soccer and club-management game. Wild Ones Rebirth is a different game on FB Games: a turn-based artillery game with pets, based on an original by Playdom. The two share a website and nothing else, and the Bola Social Soccer account is independent of the accounts of the other games.
Bola Social Soccer comes in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German and Turkish. There is no Russian or Chinese version of the game, although the public front page can be shown in seven languages, including those two. The language you choose in the game is remembered for a year.
A Bola Social Soccer club has 18 players: 2 goalkeepers, 6 defenders, 5 midfielders and 5 forwards. Eleven are starters and seven are substitutes. Their names are generated at random, and each one has speed, attack, defense, skill, strength and condition values between 25 and 99.
In Bola Social Soccer the Fans building and the kits tab are marked “Coming soon”, and the international cup and the World Battle achievements are not in yet. Matches have no cards, injuries, substitutions or offside, and the sound and music are this edition's own, not the original's.
Brand notice: Bola Social Soccer is an original game by Three Melons. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.; Playdom, Disney, iOS and Android are trademarks of their respective owners and are named here only as history or for context. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Three Melons, Facebook, Meta, Playdom or Disney. This is a browser edition.
Creating an account takes a minute, and you play straight from your browser.