Australian Football (also known as Aussie Rules) is a team ball sport. It incorporates elements of the usual football, rugby, and basketball that we know, it even contains some details of fights without rules. Its popularity has been growing all over the world recently.
The game begins after the referee throws the ball into the ground. After he bounces, he is considered put into play. It is this element that makes Aussie Rules football rules related to basketball.
For each team, there is a goal: to hit the opponent’s goal, moving forward across the field with the ball, and as a result score more points. Each team has two pairs of gates, which are located on each other. They are at the ends of the field. In the area of 50 meters near the goal there is a zone in which an attack on the player who received the ball is prohibited. Hitting the ball into the big goal counts as a goal and brings the team 1 point. In the case when the ball is kicked into the inner, narrower, 6 points are awarded for the goal.
The goal height is not limited in a game like Australian football. The rules govern the main points:
- running with the ball in hand is allowed no more than 10 steps;
- Having run this distance, the ball is either lost or continues to move with it, be sure to hit it on the ground before it;
- it can be transmitted in any direction with your feet or hands.
If an Australian football player passes the ball with his foot, and his opponent holds the ball with his hands, then the latter has the opportunity and the right to make a free kick. In the process of sportsmen’s struggle for the main trophy, if he was pressed to the ground, the judge stops the course of the fight and throws it out. It is carried out by hand, the ball strikes the ground with force. If the players in Australian football accidentally drove him out of the field, then in this case the judge makes a throw. He turns his back to the field and throws the ball over his head.
Each team consists of 18 people, and the participants are divided into central players, backs, forwards and half forwards, halfbacks, followers (they take on the maximum load of running).
Australian football. Rules of the organization of the playing field and requirements for the ball
This game provide an oval field. It should have large dimensions: 185 m in length and 155 m in width (small deviations are allowed). The center of the field is delimited by a rectangle with a circle drawn in it. Team building takes place along the edges of the quadrangle, and the ball is thrown into the circle. It has an oval shape. This is a rugby version and its weight is about 670 grams.
The match takes a total of 80 minutes. and consists of four periods. Each of them lasts 20 minutes. Only net game time is taken into account. At various delays, the stopwatch is instantly stopped.
Australian football has been known for a very long time. They have been playing it since the 19th century. This is a pretty tough game. Being one of the most dynamic competitions, it provides for power struggle. The match is stopped extremely rarely, even if the player was seriously injured.
In Russia in 2011, the Australian Football Federation was established. It includes players from Krasnoyarsk and Moscow. The country's team was represented at the European Championships in 2011 and consisted of Russian and foreign participants. The game applied the modified football rules. According to the results of the last tournament, the team took 10th place out of the declared 18. She defeated Catalonia and Denmark and lost her positions to Croatia and Wales.
This year it is planned to create the first league in Russia with two Moscow teams included in it. On an ongoing basis, 20 people are involved in Australian football in the country. The remaining players are foreigners. Coaches players Roger Scott, a visiting Australian expat.