A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.

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Goal may also refer to:

• Goal (sports), a method of scoring in many sports, or the physical structure or area where scoring occurs
  • Goals, the goal frame in association football
• Scoring in association football, goal scored when the ball passes completely over a goal line
• Goal (ice hockey), scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line
  • The Goal, the winning goal of the 1972 Summit Series
• Scoring in Gaelic games, for games such as hurling, camogie, and Gaelic football
• Drop goal, a scoring method used in rugby
• Field goal, a scoring method used in American and Canadian football
• Field goal (basketball), a basket scored on any shot other than a free throw

• GOAL (organization), a charitable organisation founded by Irish humanitarian John O'Shea
• Goal (website), a football news website owned by FootballCo.
• Goal mac Morn or Goll mac Morna, a character in Irish mythology
• Global Overseas Adoptees' Link, a South Korean agency that aids Korean overseas adoptees
• GOAL agent programming language, a high-level programming language for programming rational agents
• Game Oriented Assembly Lisp, a video game programming language
• A trade name for the herbicide oxyfluorfen

• Gaol or jail, a prison or remand center
• Goal line (disambiguation)
• Gol (disambiguation)
• Gole (disambiguation)
• Object (disambiguation)
• Objective (disambiguation)
• Purpose (disambiguation)
• Targeting (disambiguation)

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