Scoring

The aim of rugby is to score more points than the opposition. Teams score in several ways.

• Touching the ball down with downward pressure from any point on the body from the waist to the neck on or over the opponents' goal line (a try, worth 5 points).
• After scoring a try, the scoring team attempts a conversion: a player takes a kick at goal in line with where the touch-down occurred. Scoring the goal earns 2 points.
• Kicking the ball above the crossbar and between the uprights of a large 'H'-shaped set of posts. This may either occur from a penalty kick or kicked from the hand during play. In this case, ball must strike the ground before being kicked (a drop goal). Both types of goal score 3 points.