Game Play

A typical game of broomball is broken up into two halves of minimum fifteen minutes each, although other common half lengths are eighteen and twenty minutes. On each team there is a goaltender plus five other players, typically two defenders, two wingers, and one centre. A goaltender is compulsory, although teams can use their remaining five players as they wish.

The object of the game is to score goals into your opponent's goal cage; the team with the most goals at the end of a game is declared the winner. In many competitions and tournaments, if the scores are tied after regular time, one or two periods of overtime are played to determine a winner. The rules of international competitions state that in overtime, both teams must play four on four without goaltenders.