Afl how long quarters

When someone asks, what is the length of an AFL match , it can be answered in two ways. The person asking the question could be wondering how long does play go for in the game or they could want to know if they were going to a game, how long would they be there for. This would produce two totally different lengths of time.

To answer these two questions we have to first look at how a game of Australia rules football is structured. An AFL match is into four quarters, much like a game of American football would be. These shorter breaks are 6 minutes long. During the half-time break the players will normally exit the arena into their change rooms, whereas throughout the shorter breaks the players will generally remain on the ground.

Each quarter of AFL goes for 20 minutes. They will blow a siren to commence the quarter and once the timer has run out they will sound the siren again to indicate the end of period. Play for the quarter will end immediately at the sound of the siren, however if a ball is already in flight beforehand it can still register a score.

Also, a player who marks the ball before the siren sounds will still get the opportunity to kick the ball for a goal. So this answers the question of how long play will go for in a match, however the total length of the match is a little more complex.

The timekeeper will stop the clock for stoppages. Stoppages occur frequently and for a number or reasons including goals and behinds being scored, injuries, the ball going out of bounds and the umpire call for a ball throw up. That's more than two minutes longer than what we knew in But is two minutes of additional time on the field leading to more injuries and a noticeably longer game? Or are we simply taking time to re-adapt from the dramatically shorter matches of last season?

Throughout , reduced game time meant quarter lengths were on average more than five minutes shorter than they had been in the past Game lengths were subsequently more than 20 minutes shorter Perhaps, as Fagan suggested, the answer lies somewhere in between.

Or, perhaps, once the footy public gets back into the swing of normality, our habits will change again with it. Only time will tell. Western Bulldogs forward Josh Bruce kicks 48 goals from 20 games.

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