How long does a football game last including half time

90 minutes. A normal football match lasts 90 minutes, divided into two halves of 45 minutes each. If it is a game that needs to be decided and the two sides are tied and 30 minutes of overtime are required, it will be 120 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.

Football is a popular national sport and one of the most popular sports in the world. In football games, the length of a game and how many time periods it is divided into are issues that are easily confused by some novices. Below, we will explain the length and cycle of football matches from several aspects.

Total football match duration:

A formal football match consists of two 45-minute halves and a 15-minute intermission. Therefore, the total duration of a football match is 90 minutes, excluding extended periods such as injury time and penalty shootouts.

During halftime of a football match:

After the 45-minute first phase of the game, the players will enter a 15-minute intermission period. This rest period allows players to restore their physical strength and thinking, while coaches can also make tactical adjustments and strategic arrangements.

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Football match stoppage time:

At the end of each half, the referee will decide the length of stoppage time based on various factors in the game. These factors include player injuries, substitutions, delayed games and overtime. There is no fixed time limit for stoppage time, usually between 1-5 minutes.

Football match overtime and penalty shootout:

In some cases, when both teams have the same score, the game will go into overtime. Overtime is divided into two halves, with each half lasting 15 minutes. If the tie is still not broken, a penalty shootout will take place. The rule of the penalty shootout is that each team takes turns to take 5 penalty kicks. If there is still a tie after 5 penalty kicks, penalty kicks will continue to take turns until one team misses or is successfully defended by the opponent.

Duration of friendly football matches:

In addition to official matches, there are also many friendly football matches. The length and period of such matches are usually determined based on negotiation between the two parties. The length of a friendly match may vary based on negotiation between the two sides, but games will usually last around 90 minutes, including two 45-minute halves and an intermission.
In short, for football beginners, it is very important to understand the time period and length of football matches. During the game, players need to give full play to their abilities within the prescribed time, and coaches also need to accurately grasp the rhythm and time patterns of the game. Only in this way can we cooperate better and improve the winning rate of the game and the level of football.

What is the most influential sport in the world? football.
What is the most fascinating sport in the world? football.
This is probably the consensus of sports fans around the world. Of course, China’s die-hard basketball fans will never admit this.
They will analyze from every angle that basketball is better than football. For example, the popularity of NBA superstars in China and the popularity of basketball in China are much higher than the performance of the Chinese men’s basketball team in the national football team, etc.
Basketball fans are right. Indeed, basketball is very popular in China, even more popular than table tennis. So much so that in China, a football desert, basketball is as influential as football. But what we are talking about today is which of these two sports is the most exciting? Which one is more attractive?
Without a doubt, football. To simply compare the excitement and charm, football is the Siberian tiger, basketball is the orange cat, and other sports are insects.
As a pseudo-fan of the national football team and a former Yao Ming fan, I would like to express my amateur views. There are four main reasons why the charm of football surpasses other sports:
1. The scale is huge, with tens of thousands of spectators and team members sharing the joys and sorrows of the game to achieve maximum empathy;
Second, the competition process is smooth and natural, like a surging river, with an endless flow;
The third is constant suspense. The goal of strong teams is to win the championship, but weak teams also have magic weapons for survival. You have a good plan, I have a ladder. The uncertainty of game results is one of the charms of competitive sports.

Fourth, the team’s matrix formation is full of geometric beauty and is the sport most in line with the art of war. Soldiers have no constant momentum, and water has no constant shape. It’s simple, rough, and endlessly varied.

Scale

Big means shocking. The football field is 105 meters long, 68 meters wide and covers an area of 7140 square meters. The number of seats in the surrounding stands ranges from 20,000 to 30,000 to 89,000 or even 100,000. So many people come together to enjoy a football feast. People’s shouts shook the world and resounded throughout the sky. The charm of sports was fully demonstrated in this high-pitched atmosphere.
What about basketball? The venue is 28 meters long, 15 meters wide and covers an area of 420 square meters. It is 1/17th the size of a football field. The surrounding stands can only accommodate about 15,000 people. In a heavyweight game like the NBA Finals or the Olympic finals, the stands will erupt with deafening shouts, but compared to the football stadium, it still doesn’t seem interesting enough. If the shouting at a basketball game is like a sports car, the shouting at a football game is like a giant cruise ship.
Then there’s the scale of the event. The most intuitive comparison is between the Football World Cup and the Basketball World Cup.
The Football World Cup is held every four years, with each session lasting three years. From the qualifiers to the World Cup finals, this is a huge marathon battle. Due to the large number of Asian countries, the qualifiers are even divided into three stages (qualifiers, top 40, and top 12). The three-year qualifying competition, the large number of participating teams, and the wide range of participation are rare in the world. .
It can be said that the Football World Cup is like a super typhoon, sweeping everything wherever it goes and mobilizing almost everyone in the world to participate in such a football feast. Even weak countries can win the World Cup. Tickets can be celebrated like winning a championship, and the whole country is jubilant, which shows how crazy football is.
The predecessor of the Basketball World Cup was the Basketball World Championship. In order to increase the popularity of the Football World Cup, basketball is moving closer to football in all aspects. For example, the name was changed to Basketball World Cup, and the participating teams were expanded from 24 to 32.
Before 2015, the Basketball World Cup was held in the same year as the Football World Cup, but its influence was completely overshadowed by the Football World Cup. In 2015, FIBA held a meeting in Japan and changed the hosting date to odd years. Therefore, after the 2014 Basketball World Cup was held, there will not be another World Cup until 2019.
Even if the Football World Cup is staggered in different years, the influence of the Basketball World Cup cannot be compared with that of football.

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Fluency

Football is much more fluid than basketball. It can be said that in terms of the flow of the game, football trumps everything.
As a fan who often watches football, if you watch a football match from a neutral perspective, the most annoying thing is the delaying tactic. As long as the weak side takes the lead, once delaying tactics are adopted, all kinds of lies, cramps, fouls, and the rhythm of the game are cut into pieces, it will seriously damage the enjoyment and smoothness of the game. This low-level tactic is simply depressing. People will go crazy.
Furthermore, the lower the game level, the more common lying tactics are, while the higher the game level, the stronger the fluency. In high-level professional competitions, the referee’s influence is minimized as much as possible, and there is almost no sense of presence. Unless there’s a foul that trips someone up and forcibly stops play, the referee generally doesn’t show up.
But basketball can’t do that. Stop-and-play has become the norm. The presence of basketball referees is too strong, just like the host of the Spring Festival Gala. Even the more intense the game and the more critical the moment, the more important the referee’s role becomes. . Timeouts, fouls, and free throws completely fragmented the game process.

A football match lasts 90 minutes, plus a 15-minute break between the first half and injury time. The game takes approximately 2 hours to complete. The net time of a basketball game is only 48 minutes, but it takes about 2 hours to complete the game, and the pause time is longer than the game time.
A football match is like a movie, played step by step. The game time is 90 minutes. You need to keep your eyes level, concentrate, and watch and feel calmly to fully appreciate the gripping and climaxing story in the movie. And many times the ending of the story is often hidden at the end of the movie.
A basketball game is more like looking at the cards one by one. Each card represents a period of time. You can pick up and read the cards one by one, or you can pick up three or five cards at once. You can pick them up every third time. You can get it every minute or every five minutes. The combination of these time periods is the process and result of the entire basketball game.
Other sports that require scoring in every game, such as volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, etc., cannot be compared with football.
So sometimes when watching a football game, when the home team you support is lagging behind, you will feel that time is running many times faster than usual. It’s like watching a heartbreaking movie. By the time you are immersed in the plot, the movie is over.
At the peak of Barcelona’s 2011-2012 season, half-time stoppage time often didn’t even last a minute. When the time came, the referee blew the whistle immediately because the game went so smoothly and there were almost no fouls.
Fluency is the ultimate sensory experience. Just like the water droplets in the second part of “The Three-Body Problem”, the perfectly shaped, crystal clear and smooth solid water droplets use exquisite aesthetics to eliminate all functional and technical connotations, showing their ethereal and transcendent essence. Philosophy and Art…

Basketball’s extremely cumbersome rules are the main culprit that limit the flow of the game.

Suspense

The odds of an upset are much higher in football than in basketball.
An upset is when a weak team defeats a strong team. On the basketball court, if the strength difference between the two sides is 30 points, the weak team has almost no chance of upset. Even if the two sides play 100 games, the strong team will win.
But football is different. Every World Cup produces dark horses. Weak teams often beat strong teams, which makes the game full of suspense. If the weak team has the right tactics, it is possible for the weak team to defeat the strong team by a large score, even if it is a perfect score. The much-criticized national football team has also drawn with Germany 1:1, defeated South Korea 3:0, defeated France 1:0, and defeated Brazil 1:0 (Toulon Cup).
The suspense of competitive sports is one of the greatest charms of sports. Suspense means uncertainty. It is common for strong teams to dominate and dominate. It is common for a weak team to defeat a strong enemy and achieve a grassroots counterattack. But basketball really can’t do that. In this regard, the strength gap in basketball games is too obvious, and class solidification is too serious. This is one of the important reasons why the Basketball World Cup is not as attractive as football.

Geometric beauty

There are various football formations, which are reminiscent of wars in the distant cold weapon era. Basketball also has formations, but they are too simple compared to football.
You can recall, what is the most boring and least technical football or basketball game? It was a game played by a bunch of untrained kids on the elementary school playground. All you see is a bunch of guys chasing a ball. The ball ran around the court like a frightened puppy, followed by other balls. A group of people who are not cooperating at all.
But in junior high school or high school, after some guidance from the physical education teacher, children of this age have certain basic skills and know how to cooperate, and the competition becomes better. Because everyone understands their positions, learns to play their roles, and understands their tasks. With form, there is coordination, logic, and content.
Whether it’s football or basketball, the best viewing position is where the camera is during the live broadcast. From this position, we can see all the details on the court. The content of the game and the dynamics of the players appear in front of us intuitively and three-dimensionally… But there is a problem with the basketball game.
As a spectator, you can’t get too close to the basketball court. If you get too close to the head coach roaring on the sidelines, you lose your perspective and the excitement of the game will be greatly reduced. However, you can’t be too far away. If it is too far away from the court, all the superb technical movements of the players will be completely erased by the distance, the details will be ignored, the players will become dots, many dots are connected together, and the game will become a strange game. A group of people are chasing a ball. Sporty…
Therefore, the best distance and angle for watching basketball games is the distance and angle for watching live basketball broadcasts.
But football, a sport whose venue is 17 times larger than a basketball court, makes up for this shortcoming to the greatest extent.
Football is like basketball. If you’re an amateur spectator, it’s torture to watch from the sidelines in the head coach’s position. The perspective of watching the game needs to move further and further, all the way to the optimal critical point of the football perspective.
At this critical moment, all 22 players on the field became moving points. You can barely tell who they are by their movements. The little tricks and movements performed by the players will also be erased by the distance. .
However, the most advanced technology on the football field – dribbling the ball, is clearly visible to the audience. Even the further away the ball is, the more magical and incredible it becomes. As a result, a white dot (football) quickly moved left and right between the 22 dots like an elf, flying up and down, connecting the matrix of 22 dots into an organic whole. In the end, the winner is determined by the number of goals scored. This is the unique geometric aesthetic of football.
As a pseudo-fan of the National Football Team and a former fan of Yao Ming, I secretly believe that football and basketball are the most attractive sports among all sports. However, in terms of excitement, football is the most attractive sport, with basketball ranking second.
There is another problem that is puzzling, that is, the level of Chinese football is very poor, but there is a seemingly impeccable and indestructible reason – the Chinese do not play football.
It’s true that Chinese people don’t play football. The popularity of football in China is very low, but the popularity of basketball in China is extremely high. I personally feel that it has surpassed the national sport of table tennis. Even the most remote mountain village primary school will have it on the playground. But in terms of the popularity of basketball in China, the level of the Chinese men’s basketball team is far lower than it should be.
Even if it cannot be as invincible as table tennis, the men’s basketball team should at least be among the world’s strongest teams. But no, European powers Spain, Serbia and France couldn’t beat them. Neither can Germany and Italy. Brazil and Argentina couldn’t beat them. Neither can Australia. Looking at Asia, we seem unable to defeat Iran, South Korea, and the Philippines.
What’s this? Basketball fans are welcome to give me some pointers on my ball blindness.