This company is the next 5-a-side generation which are generally located in urban areas of the country. At the moment there a only few centres opened throughout the UK, however it is growing. I think they are proposing to build 7 new centres in year 2007 and 5 centres this year alone.
I believe GOAL will be a potential bagger in terms of cash it will generate. I myself play at one of these centres at least twice a month. It costs about 60 to hire a pitch for one hour. It may sound alot but when divide by 10 players its 5.00 its good value and you get fit as well! At my centre there are 20 pitches at my local centre.thats already 1200 in one hour!! The good thing about these centres is that they are open virtually all year round 7 days a week. So cash generated is going to be considerable as it open more centres.The cost of maintenance is next to nothing, just simple and easy things are used nothing fancy or complicated like you see at the fitness centres. The number of staff at my centres are only small so company expenditure must be low as well.
Last Monday 6 March 2006 they announced their impressive results and is continuing to grow and already started paying dividends. They have announced new deal with Umbro for sponsorship.
As you know us Brits love football and now that there is World Cup coming up god knows what cup fever will bring to us...Play football of course!
I think the share price have the potential to grow considerably in the coming months and after the World cup

Sounds good, now on my list. The world cup and an england good run could push these up.

Your theory hangs on England doing well. I would bank on that happening. I have a bad feeling about this summers football showcase.

I think you may have just missed the boat ...I got in on 7 March at 199p and sold it yesterday at 245p. However I am eyeing on it again and see if the price will bottom out and then jump in again.

Click on this for more info, dont know if you already know about these?

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=v1&p=&q=q&s=goal&m=L
go to headlines some interesting reads.

What do you reckon?

I thought about these but had concerns.

1. The cost of acquiring these huge plots of land to build the centres on cant be cheap and although 60 a pitch per hour may seem a lot it probably aint that much is you put it up against the cost of servicing the debt on the initial outlay to acquire and build the centre. What I'm saying is I wonder how their return on investment compares to say an Asda or Tesco on the same site.

2. Fives is a booming industry and continues to grow but having played at various centres they all seem to be completely dead midweek during the day and on sundays (in my experience). They need to find a way to fill these periods.

Just some thoughts. Although feel free to treat them as utter drivel. I will watch this company with interest and good luck to anyone investing.

Fair points on your concerns...
My local soccer centre was originally a driving range with a golf course where there was already a building facility in placed. So I think in this was a question of tidying the place up really. They have kept a golf course open as well, to generate any extra cash from golfers.

I reckon the bosses are clever in picking out the sites which are not necessarily new plot of land for their new centres, like they did to my local however I don't know how they have approached with the new and existing sites but obviously they are must be doing something right, otherwise they wouldn't be making any profits!

Any idea where I can get a copy of their annual report? Dont appear to have it on Hemscott.

TRY THIS LINK IF ITS ANY HELP

http://www.goalsplc.co.uk/goals/investors/pdfs/Prelims2005pres.pdf

Update - The Sunday Telegraph says buy Goals Soccer Centres at 229p

Will the world cup help this share ?

As the start of the football season kicks off , these shares should gain like last season .

Results out on monday , should score well !

* Sales up 35%

* EBITDA* up 56%

* EBITA* up 59%

* Profit before tax up 72%

* Basic Earnings per share up 70%

* Strong financial performance driven by like for like sales growth of
5% and new openings

* Maiden interim ordinary dividend of 0.3p per share (goes XD on 27/9)


"..and look forward to the remainder of 2006 and
beyond with confidence and enthusiasm..."

I must these are impressive results.
The shares have been virtually static a long while but I can see it picking up momentum soon. (IMO)

6 more centres to open in the next 12 months . The sp is moving in the right direction , 3 before xmas ?

I think it will be more before xmas. After last result back in Mar 06 I think, I got in at 199p and nothing much happened for about two weeks and then sudden bounce and managed to sell at 245p mark before it dropped a little.
If I were you I would watch the number shares traded being traded on daily basis I noticed at the time I bought some the number of shares traded was increasing daily hence caused the sudden bounce.

I feel this company has plenty potential to grow, as I said before the brits just love playing football. It will never disappear

Unfortunately I am bit tied up with spare cash otherwise I would have long at 255p the results are showing good steady growth yearly.

I reckon it could rise as much to 350p by xmas IMO!

Yes , I would like to get more of these . Got my eye on other shares that could move faster .

Interesting volume for goal, I think its on the verge of a breakout?
With one big buys 710k shares @ 270.54p....mmm wonder what they are upto?

Just seen 1m buy of shares and load more. Very big volume by Goal standards. Have I missed the boat or shall jump on tomorrow am???

Yes your right , big movement soon i feel .

Fliper, just noticed Goal is in ex-div period will it make any difference? How long is the period normally?

Director sold 1m shares yesterday at 270p which was shown as buy on moneyam!
However he and partners are now interested in 4m plus shares which will represent 9.7% of the company.

Yes , but is he going to use that 2.7 mil to pay for more centres ?

Fliper

Who knows, but I what do notice is that same thing happened after the final results back in feb/march. But still share climbed.

Maybe they are paying some of the money back to the bank for the load outstanding?

It's not the company's money to buy centres or repay loans with - it's the director's personal cash to do what he likes with.

And he must filthy rich alright.
Stockdog do you have any shares in this company?

Watching closely, but not in. Not sure yet if ever. Also watching PWR, even less sure.

If you made a profit selling shares in a compnay you own, would you buy assets for the company or py of its loan?

Not sure what point you're making, but you seem angry. Can I help?

Stockdog, thanks but I not angry.

I am just curious which way the chart is heading I thought it was on the verge of a breakout. Maybe I am wrong? ( again)

The one thing I like about this company, is if worse case scenario comes, they have lots of land to sell which be could worth millions to developers.

Also maybe they should be thinking about expanding in Europe as well?
I think the possibilties is endless and it is going to take time.

Europe is a great idea - hadn't thought of that.

If they were performing bad , would they be looking to open 6 more centres this year ?

Champions league, UEFA, European Championship 5 a-side LOL
But seriously though the potential is there, its whether or not they take the risk?
Of course there will some of similar kind already in placed however I think Goals can be competitive in providing better services etc

I see the lehman brothers are in at 5.8% holding . More are buying , they must think these are a winner .

And also Blackrock Group who now owns 12.58%.
mm... but I have been in a situation institutions buy companies share and they still drop. Personally I really dont take much notice of their holdings in company, as I dont believe in them to reflect the share price unless they are preparing a bid

Guys do you use this link?

http://www.chart-breakout.blogspot.com/

interesting site R88ave. interesting comment, most people are averse to buying at that point, thinking it is expensive - that's me, I shall watch and see how many break outs come good.

just wondering how do you know when the price is exepnsive?
I sometimes use peg and for this case it is worked out at 0.51 value looking at this website.

i read somewhere to invest in shares with the peg is between 0.40-0.70 and sell when it reaches 0.9-1.0 (i think it was jim slater way of dealing shares)

Funnily enough, just re-reading Zulu Principle currently - Jim Slater says buy the PEG under 0.75, preferably under 0.6. Sell on any adverse change in the story, if SP reaches an absurd irrational peak, or if doing exceptionally well with continued 15% plus p.a. increase in EPS, hold and sell when PEG reaches 1.2. Suggests a stop loss of 25% for growth shares.

Picking and buying seem to be no problem - it's selling I can't get right.

I seem to have both problem mate, so I am hoping this one is right.
the problem is when selling is pure personal greed really, telling yourself i have enough and move on to something else. I usually set a target of 10-20%. the shares has to breathe when rising continiually that when you need to sell before.

two large 't'? trade as buys went through today, what is the 't' trade? Is it of any significance

trader to trader

thanks fliper

Anyone know what 'x' trade is? 100k buy with this symbol?
Is it good news?

Yesterdays big sell was lehman brothers . check rns .

Fliper just checked the rns
Its say they were INTERESTED..... I thought that would be buy???? Man I am confused!

Check old rns , they had 5.8% and now they have 4.19% , so they have sold a few .

Nice right up in share mag today .

Fliper could you please expand on what the share mag says

Short-term price was 280p, it expects them to rise to 450p and eventually as high as 870p .

LOL I wish!! I wonder how they have worked that out then?
However I do see the massive potentials, ie expand to Europe, bid approach etc the possibilities are endless. I like this company as it does not rely anything in particular other than people to get fit! Also there are only 2 of its kind in this country.

TAKE OVER BID.

So I hit right word then LOL!

Found this for a good read:- http://www.fool.co.uk/news/comment/2006/c061012i.htm?source=eooyhoit14050001

Fliper how reliable are Share mags?

With all shares , they can go up or down .

Looks like we are heading for a new spike on graph .

The graph is looking nice now .

Fliper are you in??
Unfortunately to other comitments I had to bail out last week :-(. Typical, oh well win some and lose some thats life!

Yes , have been for some time.

Good on you, hope it carries on!

I can understand you selling to buy goo . I am holding goo already .

Good guess fliper but I have actually had GOO a little longer bought them last month at 10p, although I could got them lower, but was wary a little when it was dropping towards 8p I wanted to check where support was. You must looking closely with GOO I dont think I remember seeing your name of bb. Anyway how long have you both? At the mo these are looking good arent they!

Check back on thread , i am there .

Sorry to of the topic have you ever looked at MXP? I am in about 3 weeks ago at 87p. Looked oversold and prespect looks pretty impressive

280 to buy , not sure about mxp .

Well we saw 3 last week , a little fall back and we are moving up again . Looks good on graph .

Its a goal !

Nice one fliper!!!

their overvalued now in my opinion p/e of 41 ??? and directors now selling not buying

10B. overvalued. 444p to buy now. try PWR only a pound.

What did i say on post 48 !

BACK TO 400P. why 870 re post 48.

Powerleague Group reported a 56% jump in full-year pretax profit on higher turnover.

The company said it has continued to trade in line with expectations since the year-end.

The commercial operator of five-a-side football centres in the UK posted a pretax profit of 4.96m for the year to end June compared with 3.23m previously. Total sales rose 12% to 23.03m.

The company has proposed a final dividend of 1.1p compared with 0.75p per share.

Looking ahead, the company said the current pipeline of sites within the portfolio remains strong with new opportunities being targeted within under-provided locations.


price101/103p

going down

if england win again, this will recover. i hope

lol .... thats a big ask

IN AT 180

xx
this has been on my watchlist as a potential short for some time.
been waiting patiently for a bounce to short into.could be wrong, but please do be cautious/ careful.
good luck
regards
jkd

NICE MOVE, EIGHT DAYS TO GO.

For the six months ended June 30, Goals Soccer, which now operates 33 centers in the U.K., posted a pretax profit of GBP3.9 million, compared with GBP3.7 million in the same period a year earlier.

Revenue increased to GBP12.9 million from GBP11.4 million, while the dividend was increased to 0.68 pence a share from 0.63 pence.

The company, which raised GBP11 million through a share placing during the period, said there are now four centers under construction in Liverpool, Portsmouth, Eltham and Brentford, with two of these due to open during 2009.

Goals Soccer said it is confident of opening at least six centers during 2010.

OVER 220p

NOW 151p

BAD WEATHER HITS GOALS 137.

COULD BE THE BOTTOM, HOPE SO.

OFF THE BOTTOM AND THE WORLD CUP IS ON ITS WAY.

First U.S. site--which opens this summer--needs to match the average profit of one of its U.K. centers before it will open further sites in the region.

"When we get up to a certain level of trading we'll consider our next move. We want it to be as profitable as a site in the U.K.," Managing Director Keith Rogers told Dow Jones Newswires.

The group posted a 7% rise in 2009 pretax profit as it benefited from new site openings.

At 1530 GMT, shares +40 pence, or 2.7%, at 150 pence.

The World Cupthe way it should be!
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100 DAYS TO GO,Share price on the move ok.

Graham Wilson buys 10,000 at 150p on 1st March total holdings 310,000.

1-3 win and goals it up over 13p.

One of the companies that benefits from the nation's love of footie is Goal Soccer Centres, which owns what it calls "next generation" five-a-side pitches around the country. It has 34 sites in the UK with plans for seven more this year and a further six in 2011. Management is confident for growth and on a price-to-earnings of 11 times revenues, it is worth a speculative dig. Buy says the Independent.

England v Mexico 24 May 2010 Wembley.

TO GO

MY GOD WHAT WENT WRONG.

R. Graham Wilson, Non Executive Director, bought 30,000 shares in the company on the 1st July 2010 at a price of 140.00p. The Director now holds 340,000 shares.

Five-a-side football operator Goals Soccer Centres said the exceptional snow falls from January through March 2010 reduced profits in the first half-year by 0.8m.

Sales up 3% to 13.2m (2009: 12.9m), with like for like sales down 3% (flat excluding the snow impact).

EBITDA was maintained at 5.8m (2009: 5.8m).

Adjusted Profit Before Tax was down 3% to 3.8m (2009: 3.9m).

Adjusted Diluted earnings per share were down 14% to 5.3p (2009: 6.2p).

Dividend was maintained at 0.675p per share (2009: 0.675p).

Net cash generated from operations was up 7% to 5.3m (2009: 5m) and net bank debt was 43.8m, well within newly extended facility of 55m.

Goals reported an accelerated rollout with four centres added during the current year at Liverpool North, Portsmouth, Eltham and Gillette Corner in London. Four further centres are under construction at Liverpool South, Sunderland, Ipswich and Norwich.

A joint venture in California, USA, opened in June 2010 and is trading in line with management expectations.

A franchise agreement has been granted to an experienced leisure operator in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Since the end of the 2010 World Cup like for like sales have improved by 3%. The Directors anticipate that the results for the year to end- December 2010 will show continued growth and will be within the range of current market expectations.

Keith Rogers, Managing Director of Goals said: 'Goals has delivered a robust trading performance in spite of the abnormal weather and a challenging economic environment.

'We took advantage of the opportunity that the World Cup presented to increase interest in our key product areas. This has resulted in increased Children's Parties and Corporate Events during the period and is now being reflected in an improvement in core football.

'Whilst the UK consumer outlook remains uncertain we are confident that results for the year to 31st December 2010 will show continued growth and will be within the range of current market expectations.'

Breakout on.

6 SEPT 2010 Graham Wilson BOUGHT 10,000 123.5p NOW HOLDS 350,000

Very sad looking graph.

Time for a bounce?

In fact, looking through the last year RNS statements, the Directors have have been incrediably poor in timing share purchases. Range from 150p - 125p.

OK, they couldn't have forecast the snow which will hinder their profits but nevertheless they don't have a massive amount of headroom with their debt pile.

Doesn't really inspire that much confidence in the company.

All IMO

StockMarketWire.com

Goals Soccer Centres posts underlying pre-tax profits of £4.4m for the six months to the end of June - 9% up on last time.

The group - a leading player in the fast growing 5-a-side soccer market which currently operates 44 centres in the UK, and one in Los Angeles -said sales were up 3% at £17.1m.

Underlying diluted earnings per share rose by 4% to 6.2p (2013: 5.9p) and the ordinary dividend is maintained at 0.675p per share.

Managing director Keith Rogers said: "Following the completion of the balance sheet restructuring the group has now secured more efficient long term funding to finance its expansion plans for the UK and US. Our mid-year results are encouraging with sales and profit improvement across the estate and well advanced plans to deliver two new centres in 2014 and three in 2015.

"I am confident Goals now has the team, processes, strategy, funding and pipeline in place to accelerate long term growth for its shareholders."

Goals Soccer Centres (AIM:GOAL) – modest sales growth and margins maintained. Read more at http://tinyurl.com/psn5utq

Disappointing interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015.

With the UK market not looking terribly encouraging, despite management’s considerable marketing efforts, the Group’s future success appears to be dependent on growth in the United States, a traditionally tough market for UK businesses.

New research note at http://tinyurl.com/o3kobr4

An epic fortnight for results and updates from AIM, in which Goals Soccer Centres is also featured.

See more at http://tinyurl.com/ovjm7se