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The objective of the game is to score more points than the other team during the allotted time. [1] Teams can score points by advancing the ball to reach the opposite end of the field, which is home to a scoring zone (the end zone) and the goalposts. Teams move the ball down the field by running a series of plays consisting of runs or passes.
A blue card is frequently used in indoor football in the United States as a level below a yellow card for offenses such as breaking house safety rules, spitting on the field, committing minor physical fouls, or illegal substitutions, [23] signifying that the offender must leave the field and stay in a penalty box (usually 2–5 minutes), during ...
Most codes of football from before 1863 provided only one means of scoring (typically called the "goal", although Harrow football used the word "base"). [7] The two major exceptions (the Eton field game and Sheffield rules, which borrowed the concept from Eton) both used the "rouge" (a touchdown, somewhat similar to a try in today's rugby) as a tie-breaker.
A goal being scored (1961) In games of association football, teams compete to score the most goals.A goal is scored when the ball passes completely over a goal line at either end of the field of play between two centrally positioned upright goal posts 24 feet (7.32 m) apart and underneath a horizontal crossbar at a height of 8 feet (2.44 m) — this frame is itself referred to as a goal.
The first detailed sets of rules published by football clubs (rather than a school or university) were those of Sheffield F.C. (written 1858, published 1859) which codified a game played for 20 years until being discontinued in favour of the Football Association code, and those of Melbourne FC (1859) which are the origins of Australian rules ...
Philipp Lahm about to take a shot in the 2012 UEFA Champions League final penalty shoot-out. In association football, a penalty shoot-out (previously known as kicks from the penalty mark) is a tie-breaking method to determine which team is awarded victory in a match that cannot end in a draw, when the score is tied after the normal time as well as extra time (if used) has expired (for example ...
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
For information about all sports known as football, see football. For information about usage of the words "football" and "soccer" by country, see football (word). This category contains articles related to the Laws of the Game of association football, i.e. the rules saying how the game should be played, and how fair play is enforced.