Rules for playing Goal Hunter

1. Game preparations and game description

To play this game a football pitch is required in your locality. In addition, you need a football and at least three further players. Consequently, the minimum number of players is four. In case of more than six players, the use of team rib­bons is additionally recommended. The game consists of an attacking and a defending team. Every team must con­sist of the same number of players. The objective of the attacking team is to achieve as many points as possible by well-aimed kicks at the goal. The objective of the defending team is to stop the kicked ball in the penalty area. If no penalty area is marked on the football pitch, you have to draw it with the help of aids (such as a marker spray). The penalty area should be twice as long as the goal (on the left and the right of the goal half as much longer). The wide of the penalty area should be about one and a half times longer than the goal.


2. Course of the game

After it was decided, which team kicks at first on the goal, the first player of the attacking team tries to kick the ball into the goal. The ball must be kicked from a distance of at least three times the length of the goal. You can also kick from a greater distance. However, to the left and right the ball may only be moved as far as the penalty area is long. When­ever, after the kick, one of the following situations comes true, the goal scorer may kick at the goal once again:

- The ball hits directly the goal or is deflected by a defender into the goal (plus 2 points)
- The ball touches a player of the defending team outside the penalty area (plus 1 point)
- The ball goes out of bounds after it has touched the bar, the post or a defender previously (no points)

But if one of the following situations comes true, the next player of the attacking team has to kick at the goal:

- The ball misses the goal
- The ball touches another player of the attacking team
- The ball is stopped with the hand by a player of the defending team in the penalty area

If the ball rebounds from a defender, a post or the bar and neither goes out of bounds nor into the goal, a second game section starts. Each player from the attacking team may now try to score a goal and the defending team may touch the ball outside the penalty area. If one of the following situations comes true, the goal scorer may kick again:

- The ball is kicked into the goal (plus 1 point)
- The ball is intentionally touched with the hand by a defender outside the penalty area (plus 1 point)
- The ball goes out of bounds after it has touched the bar, the post or a defender previously (no points)

But if one of the following situations comes true, the next player of the attacking team has to kick at the goal:

- The ball goes out of bounds after it has touched a player of the attacking team previously
- The ball is intentionally touched with the hand by a player of the attacking team
- The ball is stopped with the hand by a player of the defending team in the penalty area

Within this second game section it is also allowed to hit a player with the ball intentionally, so that thereby the ball goes out of bounds, which causes that the goal scorer is "out" or may kick again. When every player of the attacking team has kicked at the goal, the attacking team becomes the defending team and vice versa. After every team was three times attacker and defender, the game is over. The team who has scored the most points has won the game.