About the game
About Ultimate 5-a-side
Ultimate 5-a-side is a free, independent football draft game built for fans who enjoy squad building, hidden ratings, draft decisions and leaderboard challenges.
What the game is
Ultimate 5-a-side lets players build a compact five-player team made up of one goalkeeper, one defender, two midfielders and one forward. Instead of building a full eleven-player squad, every decision has immediate impact because each position is limited and every accepted player affects the final score.
The site includes quick solo challenges, online rooms with friends, league-based drafts, special challenge pools and a Player Simulation mode where a fictional football career is built season by season.
What makes it different
Fast decisions
Pick, decline, bid or transfer depending on the mode. Most games are designed to be quick enough to replay.
Hidden ratings
Scores are revealed at the end, keeping drafts unpredictable and making risk-taking part of the fun.
Football variety
Play standard solo drafts, all-years challenges, league filters, online battles and career simulations.
Leaderboards
Completed games can be submitted to public leaderboards so players can compare scores across modes.
Independent fan-made project
Ultimate 5-a-side is independently created and operated as a fan-made football game. Player names, clubs and football references are used for descriptive and gameplay purposes. No official logos, crests, player images or official branding are used in the game interface.
The ratings and scoring systems are unique to Ultimate 5-a-side and should not be treated as official ratings from any club, league, game publisher, data company or football organisation.