Kick off a World Cup coding challenge at your Code Club!

Football fever is spreading across the globe, and your Code Club can join in the fun too.

We’ve rounded up 3 football-inspired projects that let creators score goals, design kits, and predict winners — all while building their coding skills. Which one will you set as a challenge in your Code Club?

Beat the goalie

Can you beat the keeper? In ‘Beat the goalie’, you build a Scratch football game where you aim, kick, and try to score a goal before time runs out. Add sounds and scoring as you explore key presses, sprite interactions, sensing, variables, and game logic.

Kit chooser

Create the ultimate team look in ‘Kit chooser’, where you design your own football strip in Scratch using colours, patterns, and custom styling. Turn kit design into code as you work with sprites, costumes, broadcasts, variables, loops, and conditionals.

Match predictor

Who will win the World Cup? In ‘Match predictor’, you use a micro:bit to build a gadget that randomly predicts the winner of a football match. Choose your teams, test your code in MakeCode, and explore button input, lists, randomness, strings, and transferring code onto physical hardware.

Celebrate success with certificates

Every great tournament ends with a celebration! Encourage club members to share their completed projects and award certificates to recognise their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving.  

We have a selection of ‘recognition certificates’ perfect for these football themed projects: 

• Completed a project
• Shared a coding project
• Problem-solving
• Understands coding concepts 

Enjoyed these football-inspired projects? Discover even more sports-themed activities on our projects site.