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Australian Football

Australian football is a physical football code played on an oval field. Teams move an oval ball through kicks, marks, handballs, leads and tackles; goals and behinds decide the score.

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Classification

Category Ball sport

Family Football Codes

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Australian football is an oval-field team ball sport with kicking, handballing, marks, tackles, goals and behinds.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who like endurance, team tactics, open space, contested ball and physical play.

Cost Low to medium for ball, boots and mouthguard; youth and social programmes often provide equipment. Medium depending on club dues, team fees, travel, protective gear and league play. Australian-football club, Play AFL programme, university team, social/Nines format or local footy group. Entry should separate technique and contact progression; tackle only wit…

First progress Basic actions come after a few practices; game awareness and contact competence take months.

Fitness level high

Was du brauchst

Australian football
boots
mouthguard
marked oval or field
team
coach
contact rules

First steps

find a club or social footy group
practise drop punt
learn marking and handball
play small low-contact games
learn tackling progressively

Play AFL, local Australian-football club, university sport, social footy, Auskick/Superkick or Nines.

Start with warm-up, mouthguard, coaching and a clear contact level; take head and tackle rules seriously.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Australian rules football, Aussie Rules

Tags team, outdoor, australian-football, ball-sport, football-codes, ballsport, australian-rules-football, aussie-rules

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Move the oval ball into scoring position through kicks, handballs and team play and outscore the opponent.

Teilnehmer

Teams; official and local formats vary by level.

Teamgröße

Elite format traditionally has 18 on field plus interchange; junior/social formats are smaller.

Spielfeld

Oval with boundary, centre square, 50 m arcs and goal posts.

Dauer

Quarters by competition and age level.

Wertung

Goals and behinds; tackles, marks, frees and contested ball follow the Laws of Australian Football.

Gewinnbedingung

Highest total score at the end of the match.

Ausrüstung

oval football
goal posts
boots
mouthguard

Wichtige Regelpunkte

high contact
push in the back
holding the ball
running too far without bounce
illegal tackle