I don’t understand why we as a viewing public can’t see exactly when a game will end. It also doesn’t seem like the players are aware. I was watching the end of the Guana vs. Korean Republic match today and it seemed the game ended without notice. How is time kept and who decides when the game ends?
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90 minutes in a game divided into two 45 minute halves. The clock never stops, even if play does for things like fouls, injuries, substitutions, etc. So **stoppage** time is added after each half to compensate for, well, stoppages. Even in stoppage time, the half might go on longer than the stated amount of added time for stoppages during stoppage time or if there is an attacking play in the box (refs tend not to blow the final whistle in an attacking play unless it takes too long, but it’s ultimately at their discretion.)
**Extra** time only happens in the knockout stages of a tournament. In regular league play or in group stages of tournaments, games can end in draws. But knockout games need a victor. So if at 90 minutes the game is still tied, two additional periods of 15 minutes (totalling 30) are played. If it’s *still* tied, the game is decided by a penalty kick shootout.
Now there’s been controversy in this world cup (aside from Qatar’s use of slave labor to build stadiums, scheduling the cup for winter thus interrupting all the big European League’s seasons because it’s being held in a desert, no alcohol and no displays of free speech, Qatar not even qualifying for the world cup, etc.) In which refs are ending games too early. Like, even before 90 minutes are up. But what can you do, they have the final call.
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