Abstract: This invention relates to an installation for a ball game, of the football type, which comprises a rectangular playing pitch and at least one return panel made of a hard material whose outer surface is inclined towards the pitch. A preferred embodiment of the installation comprises a central obstacle, for example a net enveloping bows, dividing the pitch into two zones of equal surface area, and two panels placed along the sides of the pitch parallel to the central obstacle. Each of the two panels is constituted by four elements mounted on supports in the form of containers and assembled in two's. The two central elements are flat; the two lateral elements are incurved and are concave in the horizontal plane. In this way, any ball struck from the opponent zone onto the panel is returned by said panel onto the zone along which it is placed.