To play Bola Social Soccer you need a browser and a free account of your own. Open bola.fbgamesweb.com, choose Create account, fill in a username, a club name, a country and a password, and you go straight into the game, with no email to confirm. From there you set up your club, play a practice match with the keyboard and work toward level 3, when most buildings unlock. This guide goes through the account, the buildings, the squad, the controls and the money.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create your free account and put this guide to work from your first practice match.
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.
Open bola.fbgamesweb.com and choose Create account. The form asks for four things: a username of 3 to 20 characters (letters, numbers or underscore), a club name of 3 to 24 characters, your country from a list of 12, and a password typed twice, between 8 and 72 bytes long.
That is all. There is no email address or phone number to give and no confirmation message to wait for: submit the form and you land directly in the game.
Two protections can get in your way. The server accepts only 5 new accounts per connection per hour, and after 6 wrong passwords in 10 minutes it blocks further attempts for a few minutes. If you hit either one, wait and try again.
As soon as you enter, a welcome assistant walks you through the basics. The main screen is an aerial view of your city. Across the top are your club, your Bollars (the game's money), your Melon Cash (the second currency), your fans and your level, and along the bottom is My League, a row of clubs you can visit.
The assistant sets a short chain of missions: give your club a name and colors in the Administration building, sign a sponsor, play one practice match, buy a stadium piece when you reach level 3, and challenge a friend. Do them in that order.
Administration, the PLAY button and Practice are open from level 1. At level 3 the Team, Gym, Stadium, social matches and Tournaments open up, and the Museum, where your trophies and match history live, opens at level 6.
Levels come from fans. You reach level 2 with more than 200 fans, level 3 with more than 600, level 4 with more than 1,200 and level 5 with more than 2,000. The pattern is that level n+1 needs more than 100 × n × (n+1) fans. We have not confirmed the highest level in the game, so we will not quote one.
Your stadium starts with 5 pieces and room for 7,500 spectators. Pieces raise capacity, luxury and fans, cost 300 to 11,000 Bollars (17 of them only Melon Cash) and sell back for half.
Your squad has 18 players: 11 starters and 7 substitutes. Each has six attributes, speed, attack, defense, skill, strength and condition, with values from 25 to 99. Every match tires your starters by roughly 9 to 14 condition points, and condition comes back at 5 points per hour, so back-to-back matches leave your lineup tired.
There are six formations: 4-3-3, 3-4-3, 5-3-2, 4-4-2, 3-5-2 and 4-3-1-2. Without an active coach you can only use 4-3-3, and each coach you hire unlocks formations of their own. The catalog has 10 coaches, from level 1 to 9, hired for 7, 10, 14 or 21 days at 1,500 to 22,000 Bollars (one costs 15 Melon Cash).
The gym sells temporary power-ups that raise speed, attack and defense. There are 4 types, each lasts 24 hours, they cost 250 to 400 Bollars, and you can put up to 3 on each player.
Matches are played with the keyboard. Move with the arrow keys or I, J, K and L. A or Z is shoot or slide tackle, S or X is pass or press, Space or Enter switches the player you control, P pauses, and Esc leaves the match after asking you to confirm.
On free kicks and penalties you hold A to charge the shot and aim with the arrow keys. Fouls and restarts wait for a key press (A or S) before play continues.
Each half lasts about one real minute, standing for 45 minutes of game time, and at half time you get a stats screen with possession, shots and fouls. Fouls only happen on slide tackles, and there are no cards, injuries, substitutions or offside to worry about. Touchscreen controls are covered in our mobile guide.
A new club starts with 5,000 Bollars, 3 Melon Cash, 0 fans, fan passion at 30, a 4-3-3 formation and 3 challenges available.
Practice pays 60 Bollars per match, up to 12 a day, and the game's rules work out at 315 Bollars for a home win by a brand-new club. Sponsors pay 400 to 1,600 Bollars a day on contracts of 7 or 14 days, so sign the highest-paying one your fan count allows.
Daily limits: 24 rewarded matches, 24 league matches and 3 normal challenges, with a new challenge every 8 hours and one extra for 1 Melon Cash. Fan passion runs from 10 to 100, rises 2 on a win and falls 9 on a loss, and it affects your gate income.
If the game says the username already exists, pick another one. If it says there were too many sign-ups from your connection, or too many failed attempts, wait a few minutes before trying again.
If it says the game could not be loaded, press its Retry button. If it says there is a new version of the game, press Reload. If it says your session expired, log in again.
If none of that helps, open a ticket from the support menu inside the game.
The public rules are short. Keep one account per person. Play cleanly, without automation programs and without exploiting game errors. Choose a respectful username and club name. Never hand your password to anyone or pay a third party for something in the game.
The team can suspend accounts that break the rules; appeals go through a support ticket.
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.
In Bola Social Soccer you create a free account, name your club and pick its colors, sign a sponsor, play a practice match from the PLAY button and, at level 3, start upgrading your stadium. Matches are played with the keyboard.
A username of 3 to 20 characters (letters, numbers or underscore), a club name of 3 to 24 characters, one of 12 countries and a password of 8 to 72 bytes, typed twice. Bola Social Soccer asks for no email or phone number and sends no confirmation message.
Move with the arrow keys or I, J, K and L. A or Z shoots or slide-tackles, S or X passes or presses, Space or Enter switches players, P pauses and Esc leaves the match after a confirmation. On free kicks and penalties in Bola Social Soccer, hold A and aim with the arrows.
Each half lasts about one real minute and stands for 45 minutes of game time, with a half-time screen showing possession, shots and fouls. A whole Bola Social Soccer match therefore takes only a couple of minutes plus the half-time screen.
A new club in Bola Social Soccer starts with 5,000 Bollars and 3 Melon Cash. Practice matches then pay 60 Bollars each, up to 12 a day, and sponsors pay between 400 and 1,600 Bollars a day on contracts of 7 or 14 days.
Six: 4-3-3, 3-4-3, 5-3-2, 4-4-2, 3-5-2 and 4-3-1-2. In Bola Social Soccer you can only use 4-3-3 without an active coach, and each coach you hire unlocks formations of their own. Coach contracts last 7, 10, 14 or 21 days.
In Bola Social Soccer, Administration, PLAY and Practice are open from level 1. Team, Gym, Stadium, social matches and Tournaments open at level 3, and the Museum at level 6. Level 2 needs more than 200 fans and level 3 more than 600.
Follow the welcome assistant: give your club a name and colors in Administration, sign a sponsor, play a practice match and, once you reach level 3, buy a stadium piece. Then challenge a friend. That is the same order the assistant of Bola Social Soccer itself uses.
Every match in Bola Social Soccer tires your starters by roughly 9 to 14 condition points, and condition recovers at 5 points per hour. The gym sells 24-hour power-ups that raise speed, attack and defense, up to 3 per player, for 250 to 400 Bollars each.
Wait a few minutes. After 6 wrong passwords in 10 minutes, Bola Social Soccer blocks further login attempts for a short time. For too many sign-ups from your connection, wait as well: only 5 accounts per connection are allowed each hour.
Brand notice: Bola Social Soccer is an original game by Three Melons. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Three Melons, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition.
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