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Demonstration sport, 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, [2] or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts ...
AFL breaks after the first and third quarters are 6 minutes, with a 20-minute break at halftime. [28] Thus, a match with quarters averaging 30 minutes would last about two and a half hours. Time is kept by two off-field officials, known as "timekeepers", who sound the siren at the start and end of each quarter.
Break: short for "break in play"; e.g. quarter-time, half-time, or three-quarter-time. [13] Break a line: teams often set up in defensive lines across the ground which can be hard for an opposition to get through; to 'break a line' is to find a way through such a defensive line, e.g., by run-and-carry rather than kicking.
Time on in Australian rules football is the portion of each quarter allocated for extra play which could not occur due to time being stopped. Each quarter has a specific length of playing time, which can vary in different forms of the game, but at senior level is usually 20 minutes. When the umpire stops play for a score, injury, the blood rule ...
Auskick taking place during the half-time break of an AFL game at Telstra Dome. Auskick is a program developed in Australia in the 1980s and promote participation in Australian rules football amongst children, particularly of primary school age and under.
Possession skills. Player takes a contested mark. Possession of the football is required to score so a core group of skills relate to possessing the football. These include: Marking – e.g. arm or chest mark, overhead mark. Bouncing the ball – e.g. running bounce. Pick up – e.g. collecting an unclaimed ball while it is loose on the ground.
7,238,858 – 2011 AFL season [3] Australian rules football (referred to simply as football or footy in all states except New South Wales and Queensland) is the most watched and attended sport and the second most participated code of football in Australia. Since originating in Victoria in 1858 and spreading elsewhere from 1866, it has been ...
The 2024 AFL season is the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season features 18 clubs and will run from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.