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Australian sporting discipline. Australian football, in other words “footy” or “aussie rules”.

This is a kind of sport which is a variety of the European game – rugby.

Australian football history
The rules of the game
The system of NFL games
Why is the Australian football so popular?
Do you know that ....
Australian football betting

Australian football historyto top

According to experts of this kind of sport it was created in the XIX century. It is hard to tell the exact date but we know that Footy comes from the State Victoria. Australian football is a combination of several kinds of sports: football, rugby, American and Irish football. Interesting is the fact that footy was invented in unusual conditions. As it turned out this discipline had to be an addition to cricket. The thing was to maintain the right condition of cricket players in times when games due to the Australian climate (“wet season”) were over. Some analogy which explains

these disciplines can be its evidence. “Footy” matches are played at stadiums which are also used for the game of cricket. At the end of the XIX century the Australian football was major in several states of this country. A huge popularity is especially observed in Victoria, Tasmania, Southern and Western Australia. The creation of the Victorian Football League, the first league of Australian football, which existed with such a name for 103 years, dates back to the 1897. Namely at that time other leagues were connected and as a result the Australian football league AFL was created.

The rules of the gameto top

The team consists of 22 players with only 18 players being at the field at one time (other 4 players are at the dugout). Substitutions are made in a double form which means that substitutions can be done at any time and without final announcement. “Footy” is an unusually dynamic game in which a player who possesses the ball can be attacked in such ways: grip, replaying, pushing from the front or the side. Prohibited ways also exist,

which are: pushing in the back, strikes, attack over the shoulders and lower the knees. In Australian football you can block all players in a range of 5 meters from the players possessing the ball. The ball which slightly differs from the one used in rugby can be passed in any direction by kicking it by foot, striking by hand or a direct pass in the hands of another player. It is prohibited to throw the ball.

The system of NFL gamesto top

The season begins in March and ends in September. The season is divided into two parts: the main season and the final phase. In the main season everybody plays one or two matches with each other. If these are matches between states then in such case the teams play only once and if matches are between teams of one state then they meet twice. 8 best teams of the main season are advanced into the final phase. Then the 1 leg of Play-off begins, where the team 1 plays with 4, and 2 with 3. Winners of these matches after the first leg are automatically advanced to the third leg where they host at their own stadium the winners of pairs 5-8 and 6-7. In the third leg the winners from the first leg, from pairs 1-4 and 2-3 host the winners of the second leg, and besides they cannot meet again 1 with 4 and 2 with 3. The winners of these matches play in the Big Final of the League, which is played at the MCG stadium in Melbourne which can seat even 100 000 spectators.

Points acknowledgement principles.
A goal – in other words a major score is a goal into the rival’s gate between the barbells with condition that the ball doesn’t touch the players during the throw. You can get 6 points.
Behind – there are several kinds of this action for which only 1 point is given:

a kick with the ball into the side gate;
a direct hit in the stand of central gate;
a throw-in of the ball into any gate;
connection to the ball — but after a kick by any player before crossing the goal line.
When one of the teams gets 6 points the referee starts the game from the midfield. In a situation when a team gets 1 point “behind” the competitor starts the game from his half of the field. The match of the Australian football consists of 4 quarters, every of which lasts for 20 minutes. During the breaks the match is stopped.

Why is the Australian football so popular in this country?to top

As every team kind of sport the Australian football is very interesting. The popularity of this discipline in Australia is connected with an unusual press of emotions and adrenalin and also with connection to a local state. Every Australian state puts its team

forward and it represents the defined group of people living there. Australia except Great Britain is also one of the biggest markets of bookmaker stakes and with the help of internet platforms allows placing of stakes at Australian football always and everywhere.

Do you know that ....to top

Australian football is the third kind of sport in amount of spectators on terraces in the world. Average attendance of AFL matches makes 40 thousand people.
In Australia football is so popular not in all states. In some states it steps back before rugby and cricket.
AFL matches are served even by 9 referees, a technical referee and a referee controlling lasting of the game.
In average, players run about 20-22 km in a match, for comparison, in basic football it is 9 km.

Different types of awards are given yearly in AFL:

AFL Norm Smith Medal – an award for the best player Grand Final;
AFL Brownlow Medal – an award for the best player of AFL main season;
AFL Coleman Medal – an award for the player who scores the biggest number of goals in a season;
AFL Wood Spoon – a less prestigious award for the worst team of a season.

Australian football bettingto top

Outright stakes – is a game variant which consists in prediction of the team to win the season.
Winner betting – it is needed to predict which team will win in the competition.
Margin betting – consists in prediction of the number of points which are earned by hosts and guests during the whole match. The limits are set in the following way:
0-12 points, 13-36 points , 36-60 points ,61-72 points

H2H (head-to-head) bet – a type of bets in which pairs of players in a match are created and you have to guess who of them will play better in a match (tackle, points).
The player of the match – a bet for the best player of the match
First Team Score – a bet for the team to earn points first.
First Kick Goal – a bet for the first points, received by a kick of a foot.

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