Two-player penalty shootout games you can play on one iPhone

As of 6 November 2026, at least eight games on the App Store let two people take penalties against each other on one iPhone. In Penalty Shootout Duels and Spot Kick Duel you shoot and then save. Goal Rush: Penalty Challenge and Penalty free kick shoot take turns, and Penalty Area: Face2Face, built for iPhone Duo, has a Duel mode. Three party packs include a penalty game among many others. Football Kick, which 9io makes and which is free on the App Store, is a two-player penalty shootout game too. One player swipes to shoot while the other taps where to dive, and they swap every kick.

All of them are free to download, and no single in-app purchase among them costs more than $6.99, as of 6 November 2026. We make Football Kick, so weigh its entry with that in mind. Facts about the other games come from their US App Store pages on 6 November 2026, so prices are in US dollars. We haven’t played the other games for this post, so each entry says what its listing says. Football Kick’s entry comes from its listing and from the code that shipped as version 1.0.

Two-player penalty shootout games compared

Everything in the table is as of 6 November 2026. “Not stated” means the App Store page doesn’t say, and “none declared” means the page lists no advertising.

Four of the eight other games carry ads, and Penalty Area and Duel Lab say they have none. Of the nine, only Penalty Area and Football Kick say they use iPhone Duo’s fold.

Penalty games where you shoot and save in turn

Penalty Shootout Duels (Joern Viebrock) came out on 31 October 2026 and is at version 0.3.30. Its listing says you can take turns with a friend on one phone or tablet. To shoot, you pick a corner and stop an accuracy bar at the right moment, and in goal you choose your coverage. A shootout runs to three or five penalties, and you can name your team and pick its kit. Local matches work offline. It’s free and rated 16+, and the listing says it carries banner ads, ad breaks and optional ads that give an in-game advantage, as of 6 November 2026.

Spot Kick Duel (Ulysses Virgen), an iPhone-only game first released in June 2026, has a local versus mode for two players side by side on one iPhone. You tap anywhere on the pitch to shoot and drag your keeper left or right to block the shots coming at you, and the first to three goals wins. It plays offline with no account. It’s free with ads and no in-app purchases, and rated 18+, as of 6 November 2026. Its last update, version 1.0.5, came out on 6 September 2026.

Pass-and-play football games that take turns

Goal Rush: Penalty Challenge (Benny Obel Mwamfupe), released on 28 October 2026, keeps it simple: you aim left, centre or right. Its Multi-player mode has two people take turns on one iPhone, and the listing doesn’t mention a keeper you control. It plays offline with no account. It’s free and rated 4+, and its page lists no in-app purchases and declares no ads, as of 6 November 2026.

Penalty free kick shoot (Mireia Lluch Ortola) is pass and play with secret picks. Each player chooses a team. Player 1 takes five penalties and picks where their keeper will dive five times, then Player 2 does the same, and the kicks play out at the end. It’s free and rated 4+, as of 6 November 2026. Its latest update, version 1.4 on 30 May 2024, rebuilt the app for newer screens. The page lists no in-app purchases and doesn’t say whether it shows ads now, though an update note from 2017 said the app had cut back its advertising.

Penalty Area: Face2Face and football on iPhone Duo’s fold

Penalty Area: Face2Face (Eray Dinç) has been on the App Store since 21 October 2026 and is built for iPhone Duo. Its listing says the fold becomes part of the game and puts you face to face with Goalkeeper ED. The developer’s website shows the phone partly folded, with the keeper on the upper display and the ball and pitch on the lower one, and says the lighting and the goal’s perspective respond to the hinge.¹ The swipe’s speed and curve shape each shot, and a second finger can rest on the screen like a planted foot.

Duel, one of its four modes, challenges a friend on the same device. The listing names ED as the keeper you face and doesn’t say how a duel is scored. The download starts you with free runs in The Run, and a one-time $4.99 purchase opens all four modes, Duel included, with unlimited play. It has no ads or subscription, needs iOS 26 or later and is rated 13+, as of 6 November 2026.

Kawaii’s Foldable Games, eleven small fold games released on 2 November 2026 and free as of 6 November 2026, includes a penalty kick on the fold, but its listing names only Paddles as a two-player game. Football Kick’s Shootout uses the fold for two players, as the section after next shows.

Local multiplayer soccer games for iPhone with a penalty round

Each of these collections has a penalty game among others for two people on one phone.

2 Player Games: Offline Games (Moreno Maio), on the App Store since May 2019 and updated on 2 November 2026, gives its penalty game one line, in which the goalkeeper dives and you kick for goal. It’s free with ads, Remove Ads costs $6.99, and it’s rated 4+, as of 6 November 2026.

Versus: 2 Player Games (BeexPro Consulting), out since 30 September 2026, has you hold the phone between you, one at each end. In its Penalty Kicks you both play at once, aiming, pulling back and letting go, then trying to save the other player’s kick. It needs no internet, it’s free with ads, and it’s rated 9+. Remove Ads costs $3.99, five premium games $4.99 and both $6.99, as of 6 November 2026, and the listing doesn’t say whether Penalty Kicks is one of the five.

2 Player Games: Duel Lab (Valodya Galstyan), an iPhone game released on 26 October 2026, gives each player half the screen, turned to face them. Penalty Shootout is one of its turn-based games, and the listing says it has no ads, accounts or tracking. Five games are free, and Duel Lab Pro, a one-time $4.99 purchase, adds the rest, though each Pro game can be played five times for free first. The listing doesn’t say which group Penalty Shootout is in, as of 6 November 2026. It’s rated 4+.

How Football Kick’s two-player Shootout works

Football Kick is a one-finger football (soccer) game for iPhone and iPad, made for iPhone Duo. It works offline, needs iOS 17 or later and has no ads, in-app purchases, accounts or tracking. Its Shootout makes it a penalty shootout game for iPhone too, against the CPU or a friend on one phone. This is how the two-player match plays in version 1.0, from the game’s code.

Choose Shootout on the home screen, then Play a friend. The match is at Continental Nights, the floodlit ground, every kick is a penalty, and the wind is set between 0 and 6 km/h for each kick. Player 1 shoots first in every round while Player 2 keeps goal, then they swap. The scoreboard keeps a P1 row and a P2 row with a dot for each kick, and lights up the name of whoever is shooting.

The shooter swipes through the ball as in the rest of the game. Speed is power, a curved swipe bends the ball, and on a phone, where your finger ends is where you aim. The ball is struck when the finger lifts.

The keeper never swipes. On a regular iPhone the keeper’s zone is roughly the top half of the screen, under the scoreboard, and every kick starts with the reminder “Keeper: tap the goal to dive”. A tap sends the keeper towards the point under the finger, and the dive starts the moment the finger lands. Only the first tap of each kick counts, and it can come before the strike or while the ball is in the air. A touch within 90 points of the ball while the shooter is lining up belongs to the shooter, so the keeper can’t take over the swipe.

On iPhone Duo folded like a laptop and stood on a table, the zones follow the fold. The shooter swipes on the flat half, which is the pitch, and the keeper taps the goal on the standing half. Folded like a book, both play on the main page while the other page shows a camera behind the net.

Both players get the same keeper, rated 1.0, the top of the game’s scale. A dive takes 0.18 s plus the distance divided by 10.8 m/s, so reaching a ball 3 m to one side takes about 0.46 s. A 31.8 m/s strike into the top corner arrives in about 0.4 s, as our post on Football Kick’s goalkeeper AI shows, so a keeper who waits for the strike is late for a firm shot into a corner and has to guess. The guess shows, because the dive is on screen before the shooter’s finger lifts, and the shooter can finish the swipe over the other corner. Slow motion, which the game times by playing each kick out in advance, stays off whenever a person is in goal.

The shootout stops as soon as one player can’t catch up. Level after five each, it goes to sudden death, decided only when both players have kicked in a round. To try the swipe first, footballkicks.9io.ai runs the app’s engine, ported to JavaScript, in a five-kick Penalties mode against a computer keeper, free for five minutes of play a day. Shootout is in the app only.

House rules for a fair shootout

Law 10.3 of the IFAB’s Laws of the Game sets out the penalty shoot-out, and Law 14 the keeper’s part in a penalty kick.²³ These house rules are our suggestions, and most come straight from those two Laws.

• Toss a coin for the first kick. Under Law 10.3 the winner of a coin toss chooses to kick first or second. Football Kick always has Player 1 kick first, so let the toss decide who plays as Player 1. Whether kicking first helps is disputed, and our post on where to aim a penalty kick covers the two big studies.
• Five each, taken alternately, then sudden death. Law 10.3 gives each side five kicks in turn and stops the shootout once one side can’t be caught. Level after five each, kicks go on until one side has scored more from the same number of kicks. Football Kick plays it that way, Penalty Shootout Duels lets you choose five, and Spot Kick Duel plays to three goals, so agree on the format first.
• Keep the keeper’s hand off the screen until the shooter’s finger is on the ball. Law 14.1 keeps the keeper on the goal line, facing the kicker, until the ball is kicked, and bans anything that unfairly distracts the kicker. On one phone, a hand hovering over the goal hides the corners the shooter is aiming at.
• Look away from secret picks. When a game asks for a hidden choice, such as the five dives in Penalty free kick shoot, the other player turns away until it’s made.
• With more than two people, play as teams. Under Law 10.3 every kick is taken by a different player, nobody kicks twice until everyone eligible has kicked once, and the bigger team drops players to match the smaller. An eligible player may also swap places with the keeper. With an odd number, the spare person referees.

Which two-player penalty game to pick

• If you want a shooter-against-keeper duel with team names and don’t mind ads, try Penalty Shootout Duels.
• If you want quick rounds to three goals and don’t mind ads or an 18+ rating, try Spot Kick Duel.
• If you want a simple football game for two players on one phone, rated 4+ with no declared ads or purchases, try Goal Rush.
• If you like secret picks and a reveal at the end, try Penalty free kick shoot, last updated in May 2024.
• If you own an iPhone Duo and don’t mind buying the full game, Penalty Area: Face2Face is built around the fold, and Duel comes with it.
• If penalties are one game in a night of many, Duel Lab has no ads, and Versus and 2 Player Games show them.
• If you want to play people on their own phones, our comparison of football kick games for iPhone covers online duels.
• If you want both players at the phone for every kick, one swiping and one diving, with no ads or purchases, try Football Kick, which we make. The swipe is free to try in the browser first.

For how to score more in Football Kick, see our tips, and for the 30-level single-player campaign, the World Tour guide.

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