Tag:sport=australian_football
 sport = australian_football
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A sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval field, also called football, footy, Aussie rules, or AFL.  
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Summary
A team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a ball on large oval shaped grass fields, with four goal posts at each end.
Description
Australian rules football, is a sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval field with 4 vertical goal posts (no cross bars) at both ends.
Officially known as Australian football,[1] also called football, footy, or Aussie rules[2] (and in some regions marketed as AFL after the Australian Football League, the pre-eminent and fully professional Australian football league in the country),[3]
The main way to score points is by kicking the ball between the two tall goal posts. The team with the higher total score at the end of the match wins[4] unless either a draw is declared or a tie-break is used.[5]
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Photo examples
Aussie rules ground distances
Goalposts
Canadian Aussie Rules player evades Nauruan opponent at 2008 International Cup
Nauru and Canada contest the ball at ground level at the 2008 Australian Football International Cup
Womens 2007 VWFL Grand Final
Womens 2007 VWFL first division grand final between Melbourne University and Darebin Falcons
Spectacular mark in Aussie Rules football
A player of Australian rules football
Dean Solomon and Peter Bell go hard for the ball.
Kicking
Notes
- ↑ “About the AFL”. Australian Football League. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ↑ “History website”. Footy.com.au. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ↑ Connolly, Rohan (22 March 2012). “Name of the game is up in the air in NSW”. The Age. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ↑ 2012 Laws of the game (p. 6)
- ↑ In some special situations such as Grand Finals or other knockout tournaments, if the score is tied, either extra time or a rematch the following week is required to get a result.