Law 5: Match and Result

Test 1Quarters, intervals, time running out and the resultTake a test

1. A match consists of four quarters of 15 minutes.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · recall

2. Half-time is 10 minutes since 2026; the intervals after the first and third quarters are 2 minutes.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · recall

3. Other durations may be agreed by both teams except where Regulations for a competition specify them.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · recall

4. Teams may deviate from stopping and re-starting time after a goal or a penalty corner award, and from the suspension times of Rule 14.1.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · recall

5. The review may go ahead even though time has been completed, immediately, and the situation is corrected.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · applied

6. The team with more goals wins; with no goals or equal goals, the match is drawn.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.2 · applied

7. Rule 5.2 says only that information about shoot-outs is in the FIH tournament regulations.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.2 · recall

8. If time expires just before an umpire would have made a decision, the umpire may make it immediately after the end of the quarter.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · applied

9. Quarter 1, a 2-minute interval, quarter 2, then the 10-minute half-time interval.

   Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · applied

10. 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes and 30 minutes.

    Source: FIH Rules 2027, Rule 5.1 · applied