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Garlando Table Football Buyers Guide

To help you choose your table among the various freeplay models Garlando offers, we have provided the guide below. Please read it and make the most of it.

To get a general idea of the main features of the freeplay football tables and compare the various models, you can use the comparison Chart.

Please click here to Compare all Garlando Football Tables.

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What is the starting age to use a football table ?

Garlando freeplay tables are certified as suitable to be used by children over 3 years of age, since they comply with the European Harmonized Rules of Safety EN-7. If your children are at least around 5 and appreciate this kind of game, our model is specifically suitable, making sure you ask for the version with telescopic safety bars.
is equipped with height adjustable legs, which make it possible to set the table height at three different levels, to match the children using it. Manufactured with the same components as the bar football tables, with a sturdy cabinet, is also convenient for adults.
Other tables children will certainly like arethe G-3000, colourful and extremely original.

Read more on G-100

Going-through vs. telescopic bars

Going-through bars protrude from the cabinet, while the telescopic safety bars do not. This prevents dangerous strikes to the childrens' eyes and face. Its use is strongly advised if the football table is meant for children and in the event that the table must be used in a location attended by children.

Glass vs. plastic laminate playing field

The glass playfield (in the smooth, not sandblasted version) allows a faster game, which suits the no passage technique. The plastic laminate and the sandblasted glass favour a slower game with a greater control of the ball.

Rotating vs. non-rotating goalkeeper

A fully rotating goalkeeper is able to effect a complete rotation, which makes scoring easier. A non-rotating goalkeeper can only rotate at 180 degrees: scoring is more difficult. The choice depends on how you would like to play, especially if in your country or area a certain habit prevails and you are already accustomed to it while playing in pubs.

Choosing a freeplay football table for a community

The Garlando freeplay tables most suitable for a very intense use are the indoor models G-500, and Familiare, or the outdoor and G-2000 Weatherproof.
However, if you believe that the table will undergo a very rough or abusive use, you should go for a coin operated model adjusted for freeplaying.

Read more on G-500
Read more on G-500 Weatherproof
Read more on G-2000 Weatherproof
Read more on Familiare
Read more on G-5000

Choosing a freeplay football table with the same features as the bar models

All freeplay football tables are made with the same components (bars, players, roller bearings, handles) as the bar football tables.
Some models also share the structure in plywood and plastic laminate, while others are built in mdf, a very sturdy material providing robustness and durability.
Unlike other football table manufacturers, Garlando does not employ chipboard.

Indoor or outdoor use ?

Outdoor football tables, and G-2000 Weatherproof, can be used in the open air and at home, all the year long.

Indoor models must be kept indoor and cannot be exposed to rough weather. However, in some cases and taking some precautions they can be brought outdoor. To this purpose, however, it is not possible to set an ever valid rule, since it will be necessary to evaluate the local climate conditions. For example, saltiness may damage the rod chromium-plating even through a partially sheltered veranda. In other cases it may be sufficient to use the protection cover in summer, and to bring the table indoor in winter.

Read more on G-500 Weatherproof
Read more on G-2000 Weatherproof
Read more on the protection cover

When it is convenient to choose Foldy

The only table in the entire Garlando range that has foldable legs, Foldy can be comfortably moved thanks to two wheels (on the cabinet) and can be stored after usage. It is the ideal table for all places with reduced room.

Main differences between G-100 and G-200

Very similar at a superficial glance, especially if the has a beech coating, they hide important differences: comes with three-level height-adjustable legs to suit the players’ stature. G-200 has fixed legs with levellers (supplied on request) to obtain a perfectly flat playfield on uneven floors. is available in 3 different colours: red, blue and beech, G-200 in beech only.

See the comparison chart
Read more on G-100
Read more on G-200

Main differences between G-200 and G-500

Looking very like each other – they share the same cabinet coating and legs – it is not easy to catch the differences between these tables. They can be found in the cabinet thickness, ball exits, playing field materials and dimensions.

See the comparison chart
Read more on G-200
Read more on G-500

Main differences between G-500 and G-2000

Apart from the cabinet shape, classic for G-500, innovating for G-2000, and the colours - beech and briar wood for G-500, blue or cherry-wood for G-2000 – they are all alike.

See the comparison chart
Read more on G-500

Main differences between G-2000 and G-5000

Apart from a similar cabinet shape and components (these are the same on all models), G-2000 and have important differences in the materials as well as in some optionals that are present on .

See the comparison chart
Read more on G-5000

Main differences between G-500 Weatherproof and G-2000 Weatherproof

Both are made with waterproof materials and components. The choice will depend on your tastes.

See the comparison chart
Read more on G-500 Weatherproof
Read more on G-2000 Weatherproof

If you should still have doubts about what table to choose and if you wish to obtain further information and / or clarification on any of the above matters or on any other related matter, please contact us at anytime.