how long is a regulation game of soccer?
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90 minutes\n45 minute halves each not including stoppage time (extra time due to penalites and injuries).\nStoppage time could be a few minutes.
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Regulation NHL games usually last 2 1/2.  That is why hockey is broken up into 3 periods.  If it were 4 quarters like other sports, they would have to clean the ice an additional time, which would make a game almost 3 1/2 hours.
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They play 2 15-minute extra sessions.\n\nIf they're still tied after the extra 30 minutes, it's penalty shootout.\n\nStand corrected on the Golden Goal format.
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No way, the games are long enough! I think that would change the dynamic of the game too much, but I do think it needs to be in football!
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Official 60 minutes because they have three 20 minute periods but with stoppage, breaks it will take about two hours and a half to three hours and that's without Over-time, Shoot-outs, that's another 30 minutes
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MAY BE THIS WOULD HELP\n\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/regulations/magazine/index/0,1569,109305,00.html?articleid=109305
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its an hour and forty minutes in ASA, do a search for LL they have online rules
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The rules of FIFA begins in these titles:-\n   1. The Field of Play\n   2. The Ball\n   3. Number of Players\n   4. Players' Equipment\n   5. Referees\n   6. Linesmen\n   7. Duration of the Game\n   8. The Start of Play\n   9. Ball in and out of Play\n  10. Method of Scoring\n  11. Off-side\n  12. Fouls and Misconduct\n  13. Free kick\n  14. Penalty kick\n  15. Throw in\n  16. Goal kick\n  17. Corner kick\n\nSource-SAMM
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The pitch must be rectangular (obvious!) and have the following measures:\n\nLength: 90m ~ 120m (100 yds ~ 130 yds)\nWidth: 45m ~ 90m (50 yds ~ 100 yds)\n\n\nFor International Matches, the following measures regulation is used:\n\nLength: 100m ~ 110m (110 yds ~ 120 yds)\nWidth: 64m ~ 75m (70 yds ~ 80 yds)\n\n\nThe goal must be 7,32m wide (8 yds) and 2,44m tall (8 feet)
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Mostly just the current game & the next game. But if the foul was really severe or worse intended than acceptable, then you could face a more severe penalty. Just like what Rossi of Italy is facing (4-match ban, means he's out of the WC).
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A referee presides over a game of association football (soccer). The referee has "full authority to enforce the Laws of the Game in connection with the match to which he has been appointed" (Law 5), and the referee's decisions regarding facts connected with play are final, so far as the result of the game is concerned.\n\nThe referee is assisted by two assistant referees (formerly known as linesmen), and in some matches also by a fourth official. The match officials utilise a positioning system known as the diagonal system of control.\n\nThe vast majority of referees are amateur, though they are usually paid a small fee and/or expenses for their services. However, in some countries a limited number of referees - who mainly officiate in their country's top division - are employed full-time by their national associations and receive a retainer at the start of every season plus match fees.\n\nReferees officiating adult competitive international games are required to be selected from the FIFA panel of referees; this restriction does not necessarily apply to non-competitive (so-called friendly) games or youth games.\n\nThe referee's powers and duties are described by Law 5 of the Laws of the Game. [1] The referee's tasks include:\n\n        * enforcing the Laws of the Game;\n        * controlling the match in co-operation with the assistant referees and, where applicable, with the fourth official;\n        * ensuring that any ball used meets the requirements of Law 2;\n        * ensuring that the players' equipment meets the requirements of Law 4;\n        * acting as timekeeper and keeping a record of the match;\n        * stopping, suspending or terminating the match, at his discretion, for any infringements of the Laws;\n        * stopping, suspending or terminating the match because of outside interference of any kind;\n        * stopping the match if, in his opinion, a player is seriously injured and ensuring that he is removed from the field of play. An injured player may only return to the field of play after the match has restarted;\n        * allowing play to continue until the ball is out of play if a player is, in his opinion, only slightly injured;
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Four 15 minute quarters with a 15-minute halftime. \nThe clock stops for out-of-bounds plays or incomplete passes only in the last minute of each half or when the referee deems it necessary for penalties, injuries or timeouts. \nEach team is allowed three (3) time-outs per half.
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90 min, two periods of 45 min each and a half-time break of 15 min. \nafter each half the referee can give a few mins of extra time to make up for the time lost due to injuries, substitutions etc.
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The rules are not that short!\nCheck out the BBC website which has a really good Sports Academy section regarding all the basics, skills, etc:\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/rules_and_equipment/default.stm
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Federation Internationale de Football Association.\n\nDimensions: \nThe field of play must be rectangular. The length of the touch line must be greater than the length of the goal line. \n\nminimum maximum \nLength: 90 m (100 yds) 120 m (130 yds) \nWidth: 45 m (50 yds) 90 m (100 yds) \n\nInternational Matches \nminimum maximum \nLength: 100 m (110 yds) 110 m (120 yds) \nWidth: 64 m (70 yds) 75 m (80 yds)\nOk
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Confusing, but from the rule book:\n\nPlay shall be resumed promptly following each intermission upon the expiration of fifteen minutes and thirty seconds (15:30) (or seventeen (17) minutes for nationally televised games) or a length of time designated by the League from the completion of play in the preceding period. Timing of the intermission commences immediately upon conclusion of the period. (See Rule 40(b) -- Game Timekeeper.) Preliminary warnings shall be given by the Game Timekeeper to the Officials and to both Teams five (5) minutes and two (2) minutes prior to the resumption of play in each period and the final warning shall be given one (1) minute prior to the resumption of play to enable the Teams to start play promptly.
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No to one, no to two, no to three, there should just be one head ref it simplifies things, no to four, no to five, on 6 do you mean he cant come back in, or he just has to leave the field for a few minutes, with his side playing with 10, and then he can come back in? if so, yes, if not, no, no to seven, no to eight, that would be awful, they could carry it down, and drop kick it into the net from a couple yards away, no to 9, and sort of to ten, i think this should be the point system:  four for a win, two for a tie, none for a loss in regulation.  In the group stage, ties at the end of regulation should go to two ten-minute halfs of extra time, silver goal style.  If still tied after extra time, the match would then be a tie, it would NOT go to penalties.  If there was a winner in extra time, that team would receive three points, and the loser in extra time one.