These two halves run continuously, which simply means that the clock is not paused until you kick the ball out of the soccer field.

Also, there is also a fifteen minute pause between the halves. Full-time means that game is over.

As a referee you will be the timekeeper and you will also have permission to extend the duration of the match.

This might be compensating the time for substitutions, injuries, or other kind of things that may stop the match.

For example a spectator running on the soccer field being chased by 20 cops 🙂

Spectacor

This may be fun when no one get hurts, but when Sweden played against Denmark in may 2007 a spectator attacked the referee.

Sweden was rewarded with a 3-0 victory because it was a Danish supporter that run on the soccer field.

Therefore the Denmark’s soccer association was found guilty for this. Anyway let’s continue, next out: added time.

Added Time

Added time in soccer terms can be defined either as stoppage or injury time.

In most cases it is the main referees task to keep an eye on the stoppage time.

Fourth Referee

However, in professional soccer there is generally a fourth referee that is responsible for the injury time and substitutes.

The fourth official has usually an electronic board and uses it to display how many minutes will be added to the injury time.

Game Ending

In a professional soccer league many matches generally end in a draw but in many playoff competitions like world cup (unless the game is a group match).

The official soccer rules state that a game cannot end with 0-0 in regular time (90 minutes + injury time).

The game will break for some minutes and then continue further with two 15 minutes periods (Note also that 15 minutes periods don’t have injury time.

If a player gets hurt the clock will not be stopped. If no team have scored under the two extra periods, a penalty shootout will be assigned (also known as penalty kick) which will determine the winner of the match.