The cleat finder picks soccer cleats based on where your foot pinches. Answer six short questions and you get a top 3, each with a reason and a size tip.
How does the soccer cleat finder work?
You start with who you are shopping for and your size if you know it. Then you choose where it pinches: a wide forefoot, a very wide foot, a high instep, a narrow foot or slipping heel, or flat feet. If you are not sure, three yes or no questions fill in the complaint for you.
Next come your width (estimate it, measure it, or skip it), your surface and your preferences. You can step back without starting over, and you need no account or email address.
What do the questions mean?
The complaint question matters most, because every complaint calls for a different cleat. A wide forefoot needs a roomy ball of the foot, a high instep a separate tongue with deep lacing, a narrow foot a snugger heel and flat feet a stable cleat with room for an insole. You can choose up to two complaints, and the first counts most.
The surface sets the soleplate: FG for natural grass, AG for artificial grass, TF for turf shoes and IN for indoor. It is a hard filter, so a cleat without a suitable soleplate never makes your top 3.
How is the score calculated?
Every model has a fit rating from 0 to 3 per complaint. The finder first removes cleats that cannot work, such as the wrong soleplate or a rating of 0 for your main complaint. Laceless cleats get no fit points for a wide or high instep complaint unless you allow them.
What is left is scored out of 100. Most of that is fit, with your main complaint counting more than your second, plus your measurement, preferences and how certain our rating is. For a very wide foot, an official wide width such as the New Balance 2E gets a bonus. Low scores miss the top 3, and commission plays no part.
How do you measure your foot?
Measuring is optional but sharpens the result. Measure in the evening in your soccer socks, and use the bigger foot.
- Put your heel against a wall, on paper, on a hard floor, and stand up straight.
- Mark your longest toe and measure the distance to the wall for your length.
- Trace your foot with the pen held upright, mark the widest points and measure between them for your width.
The finder sorts your foot as narrow, standard, wide or very wide by dividing width by length. The foot width calculator does the same math, and how to measure foot width has the full walk-through.
What can the finder not do?
The finder gives fit advice, not a diagnosis. If you have lasting pain, or trouble in your foot, ankle or knee, see a podiatrist. Our ratings are editorial and we have not measured each cleat ourselves. A result is a good chance of a good fit, not a guarantee. Read how we rate fit and the wide soccer cleats guide.