Soccer Table Assembly Instructions

Soccer tables, also known as foosball tables, are tabletop arcade or home entertainment games that can be played by two opponents or by opposing two-member teams who each control an 11-men team. Assembling your soccer or foosball table is a challenge, but with attention to the set-by-step instructions, anyone can do it. The assembly generally follows three parts: building the table, putting together the player rod and assembling the playing surface, table sides and player rods.

Instructions

Building the Table

1

Take the wooden table board and fasten the four table legs to its underside at each of the four corners using two wood screws. Use the screwdriver to screw in the legs from the top of the table downward into the tops of the legs. Make sure that the screws are flush with the table board because you will glue the playing surface directly onto the table board.

2

Align the two long sideboards with the eight rod holes along the long edges of the wooden table board. Ensure that the rod holes are in line with their opposing holes by using the level horizontally from one hole to its opposite. This alignment is important so that when the player rods are fitted through the holes, they can twist and spin without wobbling or getting jammed or off kilter. Use the wood glue to adhere these sideboards to their positioning.

3

Line the two short sideboards with goal holes on the short sides of the wooden table board so that they are flush with the table edges and long boards, forming closed corners. Glue the edges and corners together, and the undersides of the short sideboards to keep them in place.

4

From the underside of the table board screw upward using the screwdriver three wood screws into each of the long sideboards and two wood screws into each of the short sideboards. Be careful not to screw into the rod holes on the long sideboards as this would impede the rod from fitting into the hole. You should have no screws remaining.

5

Use the wood glue to adhere the underside of the playing surface to the top of the wooden table board.

Assembling the Player Rods

6

Take the 22 player pieces and separate them into two groups of 11. Take one of each of the four different kinds of rods, and place it with either group.

7

Fasten five players onto the five-player rod, three players onto the three-player rod, two players onto the two-player rod, and the one player who will be the goalie onto the one-player rod. Do this with the second team of players.

8

Use the measuring tape to make sure the players are spaced evenly apart on the rod, and that the goalies are positioned in the center of their rods. This may be easier to do, however, when the rods are in their rod holes in the table because you are not to space the players across the whole rod, but rather only the width of the playing surface on the table. Do not yet fit the handles onto the rod ends.

Putting Together the Table with the Player Rods

9

Take the player rods and place them one by one over the holes they'll be horizontally fitted into. The five player rods should go horizontally across the first holes nearest the ball hole of the long sideboards. The three player rods go on the outside of the five player rods nearer the goals. Then the two player rods, then the one goalie player rod.

10

Stick one of the ends of a player rod into its hole on the long sideboard on the opposite side of the table. Push that forward end beyond the sideboard so that you can fit the back end---the one at your hand---into the hole on the sideboard near you. As an example, you are fitting the player rods into the table as you would fit a toilet paper dowel into its socket holders. Repeat this step with all the player rods.

11

Put the 16 rod handles on the 16 ends of the player rods and glue them, using the wood glue.

12

Evenly space the players along the player rods across the playing surface. Your table's ready to play!