Australian football

Australian football - Aussie rules or Footy - a team sport with a ball.

The goal of each team is to move forward across the field with the ball, hit the opposing team's goal and score as many points as possible. Each team has two gates located in each other, for a goal in a large goal the team is awarded 1 point, for a goal in a narrower inner goal - 6 points. The height of the gate is not limited. With the ball in your hands, you can run no more than 10 steps, after which you must either give the ball, or continue moving with the ball, be sure to hit it on the ground. The ball is passed in any direction. You can pass the ball with your feet and hands. If the pass was kicked and the player who received it fixes the ball with his hands, then that player is entitled to a free kick. If, in the fight for the ball, it was pinned to the ground by the players, the referee stops the fight and immediately throws in. The throw-in is done with the hands, hitting the ground hard. If the ball goes out of bounds, the referee also throws in with his back to the field and throws the ball over his head.

Each team has 18 players. The field is oval, is rather large: length - 185 m, width - 155 m. The ball is oval, average weight is about 670 g. The match consists of four periods of 20 minutes, a total of 80 minutes; only net playing time is taken into account. Tough power struggle allowed.

Australian football has been played since the mid-19th century. This game is considered one of the most dynamic team games. Stops in the match are extremely rare, the referee does not stop the game even when a player is injured.

Australian football is the third most watched sport in the world. The average attendance of an AFL match is about 40 thousand people.

During a match, players run an average of 20-22 km, for comparison in regular football - about 9 km.

Australian Football in Russia

In the middle of 2011 the Federation of Australian Football of Russia was established. The federation includes players from Moscow and Krasnoyarsk.

At the 2011 European Australian Football Championship (a game with modified rules), a Russian team consisting of Russians and various foreigners was provided. At the end of the tournament, the Russian team took 10th place out of 18 with victories over Catalonia and Denmark and defeats against Croatia and Wales.

Russian Tsars uniform - Russian Australian Football Team

In 2012, it is planned to create the first league in Russia, which will include 2 teams, both from Moscow. The teams consist of both Russian and foreign players. At the moment, about 20 players are playing Australian football in Russia on a full-time basis.

The coach of the Moscow players and also the coach of the Russian team is Australian expatriate Roger Scott. Paul Kube conducts training in Krasnoyarsk.

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Links

Aussie Rules Football Promo on youtube

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Australia is a distinctive country, which, like Japan, has a unique view of the world. It is not surprising that Australian football is wildly popular in the country, although outside of it, almost no one is interested in it. Australians are very gambling people, which is why a significant amount of Australian football betting is made by amateurs.

Domestic bettors will like the Australian Football League because its dates cover the summer breaks in major football and hockey tournaments. At this time, you can switch to the AFL in the rates.

A bit of history

Australian football dates back to the late 19th century. It is a mixture of Gaelic, American and regular football with rugby. Australia's first football league was created back in 1897, but it was not until 2000 that it was merged with the leagues of the rest of the states, resulting in the AFL.

In the country, Australian football is not just a game, but practically a religion. The average attendance of the AFL games is about 40 thousand people, and up to hundreds of thousands of people come to individual playoff matches. Each of the Australian states has a league system that allows young players to grow and progress.

The best bookmakers for betting on Australian football: , and.

useful links

afl.com.au - Everything you need to know about the main Australian football tournament on the planet. Match reviews, team odds, news, videos, etc.
footywire.com - Australian football standings, stats, rankings and news.
finalsiren.com is a simple site with convenient statistics, lots of news and different ratings.

Basic rates

Analysis

There are 36 players on the field at the same time, so the role of an individual player in this sport is not as great as in the same one. Teamwork is much more important. Of the six main playing positions on the field, the “followers” \u200b\u200bstand out as they do a lot of work. It is these players that should be watched more closely.

A lot depends on the coach in Australian football. A large number of players allows a wide variety of schemes to be used in the game, so in many matches the role of a coach comes to the fore.

Australian football is a very fast and contact game. Weather conditions are unlikely to affect the outcome of the match, but rain, for example, significantly reduces the effectiveness of games. Therefore, it may be worth playing on TM if bad weather is expected during the game.

Although there are only 4 players on the replacements, fresh strength is sometimes very necessary for the team, so check the rotation options with the teams.

Features of bets

The AFL has strong home and away teams. For example, the Richmond Tigers have won 23 victories and 10 defeats in the past three seasons away, while at home they have only 19 victories and 14 defeats (regular season matches are taken into account).

Despite the fact that the teams play only 22 games in the regular season, even the best teams pass it with 4-5 defeats in the asset. While in the first part of the season the players can still afford to relax in individual matches, in the playoffs they are concentrated until the last minutes.

Australia is a very wealthy country, so its citizens can afford to wager large sums on the matches of their favorite teams. This only plays into the hands of professional bettors who are just waiting for distortions in the line due to the large amount of "amateur money". At the same time, such offices give very high odds on Australian football, so it is even easier to look for value bets in the line. In any case, first study the rules well and only then proceed to betting.

Football on a round field? We play Australian football!

From time to time they write about varieties of football. Australian football is definitely not exotic.

From time to time they write about varieties of football. Australian football is definitely not exotic. Although rugby fans try to play it rather than the football we are accustomed to. "Soviet Sport" tells about this sport in such a way that now you will not understand how you have lived until now without love for it.

You will probably be terribly surprised when you find out that Australian football is in the top 3 most crowded stands of all sports? Let's leave aside the correctness and transparency of calculations, but on the green continent this sport is the most top of all team sports. Only rugby can argue. But the numbers are a stubborn thing: an average of 33,500 viewers come to a local league game. Comparing with the attendance of the Russian football championship is a thankless task.

They started playing Australian football even a little earlier than in the British Isles - our usual football, European, aka soccer. And the game, from the point of view of connoisseurs, is much brighter and more dynamic than we can only imagine.

Firstly, stops are rare in it: the referee does not whistle, even if someone is injured and writhes in agony on the green lawn.

You can push each other, even climb on top of each other like this:

Secondly, the main thing is like in football: to drive the ball into the goal. Only then it turns out that the goal here is not exactly football, and not rugby. Each team has two gates. They are like a nesting doll: each other. Hit the big goal and earned a point. I hit the small ones (those inside the big ones) - immediately 6. But the height of the goal is similar to the rugby one. In the sense that there is no top bar. Shoot at any height.

Thirdly, running is also not like in rugby: you can run no more than 10 steps with the ball in your hands, after which you must either give the ball or continue moving with it, be sure to hit the ball on the ground. The ball is passed in any direction. There are no restrictions here, like in rugby. You can pass the ball with your feet and hands. If the pass was kicked and the player who received it fixes the ball with his hands, then that player is entitled to a free kick. If, in the fight for the ball, it was pinned to the ground by the players, the referee stops the fight and immediately throws in. The throw-in is done with the hands, hitting the ground hard. Very interesting is the throw-in of the ball that went out-of-bounds: this throw-in is made by the referee, turning his back to the field and throwing the ball over his head.

Passions in the game are such that there is not even time for flying birds and other living creatures

Each team has 18 players. The field is oval, rather large. Much more football or rugby: length - 185 m, width - 155 m. There is a 50-yard zone near the goal, in which an attack on a player who has cleanly received the ball is not allowed.

Fans of tough women's fights will stop watching them when they watch Australian women's football at least once.

During a match, players run an average of 20-22 km, for comparison in regular football - about 9 km.

Australian Football Shadow Play

Let's just enjoy this drama:

Aren't you in love with Australian football after that?

And further. Compare where more courageous people play - in Australian football or in European?

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Well, yes, Australians, especially those who live in the oldest state of Australia - Victoria (the capital of Melbourne) really consider Australian football (aka footie, aka Australianfoot, aka, officially, Australian Rules Football) the greatest game and greatest show on earth ...

The largest field is an oval 180 x 150 meters. The largest number of field players in a team is 18. The longest duration is 4 halves of 20 minutes of CLEAN TIME. Incredibly liberal rules. The referee generally intervenes in the game, as a rule, only if it is necessary to hit a held ball or throw the ball out of touch. This is exactly what the judge himself is doing. Well, the judges also keep track of whether a goal is scored or not. This is the colossal difference between American football and Australofoot. Well, the enormous attendance. In small Australia (population 20 million), 40 thousand spectators consistently come to the matches and about 100 to the Grand Finale - the main match of the year.
Briefly about the rules. Due to the fact that they were formulated long before football and rugby (more on that later), they have peculiarities and archaisms that cause nothing but the desire to open your mouth wide and clap your eyes.

Briefly about the rules.

So two teams on a huge oval field. 4 halves of 20 minutes of net time. The object of the game is to score an oval ball by kicking into the goal. Any of the three. That's right - there are four racks on each side. There is no top bar. She also appeared in normal football only in the 80s of the nineteenth century and did not get used to them right away. In hockey, the crossbar began to be used only at the beginning of the last century. Roughly speaking - a few sticks stuck in - here is the gate.

Hit in the middle - 6 points. On the side - on a point. The ball can be transported across the field as you please. But if you carry it in your hands, then you have to hit it on the ground every 10 steps. No offsides, no forward pass bans, no tries or touchdowns. Gate only, hardcore only. As in the original football.

If the ball was passed to you with a foot, and you caught it in the air, you can shoot a free kick on goal. If a crowd of people has piled on the ball and it is fixed on the ground, the referee throws in with force hitting it on the ground. The referee also throws in the ball from the out-of-bounds. Moreover, standing with his back to the field. Power struggle is practically unlimited, there are no protective devices on the players. During a match, an Australian football player runs an average of 22 kilometers. In regular football, about 9.

How it all looks is clearly seen from this video. The last 5 minutes of the opening match of the current Australian Football League Championship. The match takes place at Melbourn Cricket Ground, the largest stadium south of the equator (Maracanã is slightly smaller). In the stands, there are almost 100,000 spectators eating Australian meat pies with ketchup.

When you watch this video, you understand why the Australian army, even without nuclear weapons, has always been and is one of the best armies in the world. The descendants of the English Luddites just have a hard time with brakes in the head and other parts of the body.

The most characteristic picture of Australian football, similar to that of a quarterback getting ready to pass in an amphut, flying over the end of a rugby player's goal, or preparing to kick a kicker in our fubol, is by far the most creepy trick of Australian football.

During the interception, the player jumps on the back of the opponent player, pushes off from it and goes high up, in order to then collapse onto the lawn with his back or even his head.

Another feature is the recording of match results. The result is written something like this:

This means that Colingwood have scored 16 goals in the center and 12 in the sides, gaining 108 points, and St. Kids, respectively, 5 and 9.

How did such a controversial (in provincial leagues often even fatal) sport come about? At the beginning of the 19th century in Great Britain, the USA, Ireland and France, the situation with football was as simple as a Bedouin song - in every village, town and college they played as God laid it on their hearts. There were even situations when the rules were agreed upon right before the match.

At the same time, the continent already had the experience of codifying the rules of sports games. First, France adopted the Jeu-de-Pom rules (in England it was called Real Tennis). This happened back in the 18th century and for many years this sport (tennis (laun tennis) grew out of it and squash became the main sports game of the privileged classes of Europe. In the hall for playing this game, the organizers of the Revolution of 1789 gathered in Paris before the storming of the Bastille, in Popov demonstrated his lightning detector in the same hall in St. Petersburg in 1894. Once jue-de-pom ("ball game") was even an Olympic sport.

A little later, in Germany and Italy, the great poet Heine finally codified the rules of fistball, the forerunner of volleyball, which was born as an urban version of fistball, played on a small area covered with cobblestones, rather than grass.

Why was codification needed? Very simple. By the end of the 18th century, England was cut through numerous channels, through which, in more or less comfortable conditions, it was possible to move around the country relatively quickly. Before that, of course, there were no such opportunities. In addition, the country's population grew rapidly and the tiny village of Manchester, as it was at the beginning of the 18th century, a hundred years later was already one of the largest industrial centers of the world's main economy. New towns were also built. And if earlier two local teams played their football at the fair, now it has become possible to visit neighbors as well. And when at the beginning of the second quarter of a century in the UK began rapid railway construction, the topic quickly became very relevant.

Another reason for the need for uniform rules was ... the invention of the lawn mower in 1830. Imagine - while Pushkin was fooling another "friend of the harsh days", the British were inventing another useful thing. Thanks to this invention, it became possible to prepare many fields of almost the same quality.

The history of the codifications of football rules is long and interesting. As a rule, several groups in each of the interested countries promoted their own rule books, gradually finding a common language (Sheffield Rules and Association Rules), diverging (Association and Rugby), or trying to create something new based on several well-established principles. It happened in Australia, where in 1858 they adopted their own rules of the game. Their adoption took place under the slogan - "No, we want our own football." It is believed that Australian football was formed as a symbiosis of rugby ("Father of Australian football" Tom Wills played directly in Rugby before moving to Australia), Sheffield football, Irish kayde (which later grew into Gaelic football) and local Australian football games.

The rules were very different from the current ones. Suffice it to say that the first official game according to these rules was played on a field with a length (attention) of 800 meters, without side lines, by teams of 40 players each for three days. Each day, the game began at one o'clock and ended at sunset. The youth teams of two Melbourne colleges played. Two goals were scored in three days.

Until now, historians of Australian football are breaking their spears over the timing of the creation of the first Australian foot club. The documented date is the beginning of 1860, when the club was founded in Melbourne, even the founding documents have been preserved. At the same time, other clubs are mentioned in Australian newspapers in the early 50s, but no documents belonging to them have survived.

Despite the popularity of the game in Melbourne and Victoria, its development in other regions was not so rapid and took place in isolation. Only in 1877 did the first match between the national teams of the colonies take place. In Melbourne, Team Victoria played South Australia's team from Adelaide and won 7-0.

In 1897, the Victorian Football League was formed from 8 clubs in Melbourne and the surrounding area. This league has become, in fact, the Australian championship. In 1925, the number of clubs reached 12 and in terms of aggregate popularity the Ossi Rolls surpassed cricket. In 1980, the Australian Football League (AFL) was created on the basis of the VFL. In addition to it, the country has several regional leagues in each of the provinces, the champions of which compete for the Foxtel Cup.

There are 18 clubs playing in the current AFL, 10 of which are located in and around Melbourne, 7 in other provinces of the country, and one in New Zealand, in Auckland. An interesting feature of the championship: five Melbourne teams share the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with a capacity of 100 thousand people, and five more Docklands Stadium, with a capacity of 56 thousand. Also, several strong teams from Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide play their home games in Darwin, in the very north of the country.

There are 23 rounds in the regular season, as in the English Football Premier League or NFL at weekly intervals. But each tour is spread over the entire weekend, starting on Friday.

The 8 strongest clubs advance to the playoffs. Playoffs in Australia are archaic, something similar in Europe was before World War II.

First, the so-called preliminary or liquidation finals are held. Team 1 of the regular season plays with Team 4, Team 5 with Team 8, Team 6 with Team 7, and Team 2 with Team 3.

The winners of the first and last matches go to the third round of the playoffs, which they call the preliminary final (and in fact it is the semi-final), and the losers play with the winners of the second and third matches in the consolation matches, they call them semi-finals, the winners of which go to the preliminary final ... Well, there is a struggle for getting into the Granf Finale and the match itself.

The Grand Finale is an incredibly pompous event, comparable to the SuperBowl in the USA, the FA Cup final at Wembley, the Gray Cup match in Canada. Leading local stars such as the great Australian band Sickers, who played ahead of the 1994 finals, are invited to attend.

The largest number of spectators at the Grand Final was in 1970 when Carlton won their 10th (out of 16) title against Colingwood 17.9 (111) - 14.17 (101). Then in the stands "Melbourne Cricket Ground" there were 121 696 spectators.

As you can see from the video, Australian audiences are very disciplined. They stand close to the field and it does not bother anyone. Or they could throw the firecracker, why ...

Outside Australia Australian rules are not very popular. The main problem is the cyclopean size of the field. In fact, the only real conditions for pure Australofoot cultivation are in countries where there are cricket fields. But in the countries of Hindustan they prefer to play cricket all year round, and in the UK and South Africa their varieties of rugby are enough above the roof. In recent years, there have been some progress in promoting this sport. First, there is the Australian Football World Cup, in which the Australians themselves do not play. Instead, the Irish, New Zealanders and Papua New Guineans are lit up. Secondly, for 30 years now, a match has been held under the so-called International Rules between the national teams of Australia and Ireland. Differences - teams of 15 players, gates as in Gaelic football, but with side additions as in Australian football, the goalie is on the goal and the match is round like in Gaelic.

In addition, the USA and Europe have created their own versions of footwear - in the United States, Australians in teams of 10 players play metrofoot on the American football field, and in Europe, the European Championship is held according to the European version - 9 players on the rugby field. For this business in Russia there is even a national team "Russian Tsars" of Krasnoyarsk and Moscow rugby players trained by Australians. It was even planned to hold a Russian championship, but it seems that it has not yet worked out.

To summarize - IMHO, it is quite a sensible sport with some unique features that cannot but arouse interest.