Sports Rugby

10 metre line – The imaginary line behind which an offside player must move in order to take part in the game.

22 metre line – The line marked on the ground between the halfway line and a team’s goal line or tryline.

Advantage line – When an attack heads further downfield from the spot where it first received the ball, the advantage line is deemed to be where the ball was first received.

Corner flag – The flag situated in each corner of the playing field.

Crossbar – The bar joining the two uprights of the goalposts. For a conversion or penalty goal to be successful, it must go over the crossbar.

Dead ball line – The far end lines of the field.

Field of play – The ground on which a rugby match is actually played.

Goal line – The line that has to be crossed for a team to score a try. For this reason, the goal line is often called the tryline.

Halfway line – Marks the centre of the field where the game is started and also restarted after successful tries or penalty goals.

In-goal area – The area in which tries are scored.

Touch line – The two lines situated on either side of the field. A ball is described as going ‘into touch’ when it crosses either of those two lines and goes out of the field of play.