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Gaelic Football Score Counter
A Gaelic football score counter keeps each side’s goals and points as 1-15 (18): a goal is 3, a point 1, and a kick from on or outside the 40 m arc 2, which since 2026 only a teammate’s touch takes to 1. This one also values a 45 by code (1 in men’s football, 2 in ladies) and writes the scorers line.
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Home 0-0 (0) · Away 0-0 (0) · Level
Tap a score as the umpire's flag goes up: green a goal, orange two points, white a point.
Men's football, GAA rules from 2026 · 2 points from on or outside the 40 m arc, unless a teammate touches it · a 45 is 1 · halves of 30 minutes
1st half: Home 0-0 (0) Away 0-0 (0) Scorers for Home: none. Scorers for Away: none.
| When | Team | Score | Scorer | After |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing yet: each score appears here with its half, its minute and the scoreline after it. | ||||
Tap Point, 2 points or Goal as the flag goes up. Set Next score from first for a free, a 45, a mark, a penalty or a sideline kick, and for a kick from outside the arc say whether anyone touched it on the way over: the counter gives the value the rules give and says why. Both settings go back to Play and Not touched after each score. The clock is optional: run it and each score carries its minute. A S D are a point, two points and a goal for the home side, L K J for the away side, Space starts and stops the clock, Ctrl+Z undoes.
This keeps the score; it does not umpire. It cannot see where the kicker’s feet were, whether the ball was touched or whether it went over the bar, so it scores what the umpires signal and the referee allows: set the value from the flag. It is not an official scorecard, its clock is the one you run rather than the referee’s watch, and a competition’s own regulations on drawn games win over the defaults here. Built on the GAA Official Guide Part 2 effective 27 March 2026 and the LGFA rules approved on 15 April 2026.
Adding three for a goal is easy. What a scorer needs is the value of each kick under the rules being played, which changed in 2025 and again in 2026 and differ between men’s and ladies football, and a scoreline that says how many kicks made the points. This counter does both, with the halves, extra time and the shoot-out.
Gaelic football is a field game of the Gaelic Athletic Association played by two teams of fifteen with a round ball. A team scores a goal, worth three points, under the crossbar, and a point over it; since the 2025 rule changes, a kick over the bar from on or outside the 40 m arc is worth two points.
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Key facts
| Detail | Answer |
|---|---|
| Price | Free, no sign-up, no ads |
| Scores | Goal 3, two-pointer 2, point 1, kept as goals-points with the total: 1-15 (18) |
| Rules | Men’s football 2026 or 2025, ladies football 2026, or hurling with no two-pointer |
| Touched on the way over | Teammate: 1 point. Defender or keeper: 2 since 2026, 1 under the 2025 rule |
| 45 over the bar | 1 point in men’s football (Rule 3.1), 2 in ladies football (LGFA 2026) |
| Penalty | Never two points: taken inside the arc |
| Halves | 30 or 35 minutes, with added time shown as 30+2 |
| Level at full time | Extra time of 2 × 10 minutes, a shoot-out, or a draw: you choose |
| Shoot-out | 5 a side for goals only, alternately, ended early when decided, then sudden death |
| Report | Result, half-time and scorers lines: 0-5 (2 2pt, 1f), copied in one tap |
| Undo | Every tap, periods and the clock included |
| Where data goes | Nowhere. Local storage in this browser only |
| Official record | No. It scores what the umpires signal |
How to keep score in a Gaelic football game with the counter
Choose the rules first, then tap each score as the flag goes up.
Choose the rules and the half length
Men’s football 2026 or 2025, ladies football or hurling; 30 or 35 minutes. Type the team names if you like.
Start the clock at the throw-in
Optional: with it running, each score carries its minute. Space starts and stops it.
Set how the score came
Free, 45, mark, penalty or sideline, and for a long kick whether anyone touched it. Both reset after each score.
Tap the score
Point, 2 points or Goal for the team that scored, with the scorer’s name if you want the scorers line.
Move through the periods
Half-time, 2nd half and Full time; at a level full time choose extra time, a shoot-out or a draw.
Copy the report
The result, the half-time score and both scorers lines, written the way match reports write them.
Where a Gaelic football score counter gets used
Most games have a scoreboard with two numbers and nobody writing down who scored what.
Club games
The score on a phone at the side of the pitch, with the scorers ready for the club’s report or social post.
Club PROs
A match report’s scorers line, 1-3 (1-0 pen, 2f), built while the game is played instead of from memory after it.
Underage and blitzes
Short halves, a quick shoot-out, and the score right without a scoreboard.
Ladies football
The LGFA’s 45 worth two, which a men’s scoreboard app gets wrong.
Referees and umpires learning the rules
Practise the 2026 touch rule and the 45 exception against the code you officiate.
Watching on TV or a stream
Keep the score with the two-pointers and the scorers, and check a scoreline’s arithmetic.
What a kick is worth: the two-point score by code and by year
Since 1 January 2026 the two-point score is permanent in men’s football. The GAA’s Special Congress passed all 62 Football Review Committee motions on 4 October 2025, making the 2025 trial rules law with one change to the scoring rule. The Official Guide effective 27 March 2026 now reads: “Two points are scored when the ball is played over the crossbar between the posts (whether from a free kick, Solo and Go, or from general play), having been kicked by a player who has at least one foot on or outside the 40m arc, provided no other player from that player’s team has touched the ball. Exception – when the ball is played over the crossbar between the posts from a 45, one point is awarded” (Rule 3.1). Ladies football trialled the arc in its 2026 league and adopted it at a Special Congress on 15 April 2026, with a different 45.
| The kick | Men’s football, 2026 | Men’s football, 2025 | Ladies football, 2026 | Hurling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Into the net | Goal, 3 | Goal, 3 | Goal, 3 | Goal, 3 |
| Over the bar from inside the arc | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Over from on or outside the arc, untouched | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| The same, touched by a defender or goalkeeper | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| The same, touched by the kicker’s teammate | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| A free from outside the arc | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| A 45 over the bar | 1 | 1 | 2 | A 65: 1 |
| A penalty over the bar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Outside the arc but inside the 20 m line | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Who touched it
The 2025 text gave two points only for a kick “played directly over the crossbar … without the ball having been touched by any other player”, so a defender’s fingertips took a long-range score down to one point. That drew criticism through the 2025 season, and it is the one part of the scoring rule Special Congress changed. Now only a touch by the kicker’s own team matters: the GAA’s guidance of March 2026 says that “if the goalkeeper or member of defending team touch the ball it is still considered a two-point score”. The LGFA wrote the same condition into its rule, and added that a kick which bounces over the bar from outside the arc, untouched by a teammate, is two points. In the counter, set Defender touched or Teammate touched before tapping 2 points, and it scores the kick by the rules you chose.
The 45 is the exception, in men’s football only
A 45 is taken from the 45 m line, outside the arc, and in men’s football it is still one point: the Rule 3.1 exception was in the 2025 text and stays in 2026. In ladies football it is two. The LGFA rule as amended on 15 April 2026 says “a 45-metre kick scored in these circumstances shall count as 2 points where it goes directly over the bar or is deflected over the bar by a member of the defending team”, and one point if a teammate plays it again. Tap 45 then 2 points and the counter gives one or two by the code. Hurling’s equivalent, the 65, is a point like every hurling score over the bar: there is no two-point score in hurling.
The corners, frees and the mark
The 2026 rule defines a one-point score as one “inside the 40m arc or inside the 20m line”. The arc is drawn 40 m from the centre of the goal, so near the corner flags a kicker can be more than 40 m out and still inside the 20 m line: that is one point. A free counts like any other kick, by where it is taken, and a player awarded a free that a 50 m advance brings inside the arc may take it back outside to try for two. In men’s football the kick-out mark is caught on or past the 45 m line nearest the kick-out, far outside the arc, so a kick from it can be worth two; the advanced mark is caught on or inside the 20 m line, so a point from it is one. A penalty is taken inside the arc, so a point from one is a point, and the counter refuses 2 points with Penalty set. The rule lists frees, Solo and Go and general play and excepts only the 45; it does not name the sideline kick, so the counter scores a sideline kick at whatever the umpire signals.
Sources: GAA, Official Guide Part 2, effective 27 March 2026 (copy posted by the USGAA), Rule 3.1 and Rules of Specification 3.2-3.6, and the edition effective 1 January 2025; Guidance on the Application of Football Rules, March 2026; All 62 motions passed at GAA Special Congress (gaa.ie, 4 October 2025); LGFA, Playing Rules: Motions Approved at Special Congress, 15 April 2026.
Reading a scoreline: 1-15 (18), and why 0-5 can be three kicks
A Gaelic football score is written goals first, then points: 1-15 is one goal and fifteen points. A goal is worth three, so 1-15 is 18 in all, and reports often add the total in brackets, 1-15 (18). Only the total decides the game: 2-10 (16) beats 0-15 (15), and 1-12 against 0-15 is a draw. Two-point scores have no column of their own. They go into the points column at their value, so the column counts points, not kicks.
| Scorer line in the report | What it means | Scores | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan O’Donoghue 0-5 (2 2pt, 1f) | Two two-pointers and a point from a free | 3 | 5 |
| Jack Carney 0-4 (2 2pt) | Two two-pointers | 2 | 4 |
| Darragh Beirne 1-3 (2fs) | A goal, and three points, two of them frees | 4 | 6 |
| Kobe McDonald 0-3 (1 45) | Three points, one from a 45 | 3 | 3 |
| David Clifford 1-6 (1 2pt) | A goal, a two-pointer and four points | 6 | 9 |
So “0-5” can be three kicks or five, and the brackets are the only way to tell. Reports do not all write them the same way. Munster GAA’s report of the final has “0-5 (2 2pt, 1f)”; Wikipedia’s page for the same game has “5 (2x2p, 1f)”. The counter writes the munster.gaa.ie form.
The scorers line the counter writes
Type the scorer before a score (the box offers names already used) and Copy report gives the result, the half-time score and a line for each team, highest scorer first:
| Written | Means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 2pt | A two-point score from play | 0-4 (2 2pt) |
| 2pt f | A two-point free | 0-2 (1 2pt f) |
| f, fs | Points from frees | 0-3 (2fs) |
| 45, 45s | Points from 45s (65s in hurling) | 0-1 (1 45) |
| m | Points from a mark | 0-2 (1m) |
| sl | Points from a sideline kick | 0-1 (1 sl) |
| 1-0 pen | A goal from a penalty | 1-2 (1-0 pen) |
| each | Several players with the same plain total | A, B and C 0-1 each |
Each team’s meta line under its score counts the scores as well as the points, “13 scores: 1 goal, 3 two-pointers, 9 points”, so a scoreline and the number of kicks behind it are both on the screen.
Halves, extra time and the shoot-out: deciding a drawn game
A game is two halves of 30 minutes, with time added for delays; inter-county senior championship, league and tournament games are two halves of 35 (Rule of Specification 3.2). The half-time interval may not exceed ten minutes, or fifteen in inter-county senior games (3.3). A draw in a league game stands. In a knockout game the competition says what happens next.
| Stage | What happens | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Level after normal time | Extra time, if the competition provides for it: two periods of ten minutes, starting within ten minutes of the end of normal time | Rule 3.4(d), 3.6 |
| The extra-time interval | Five minutes at most; the teams stay on the field and change ends | Rule 3.6 |
| Level after extra time | “Winner on the Day” in knockout inter-county, provincial and All-Ireland club and third-level games: a penalty shoot-out | Rule 3.5(b) |
| The exception | All-Ireland senior football and hurling finals (Tier 1) and, in the 2026 Guide, provincial senior football finals (Tier 1): extra time, then a replay, decided on the day only if the replay is level | Rule 3.5(b) |
| Underage club knockout | Extra time of two periods of ten minutes | Rule 3.6 |
How the shoot-out works
The Central Council’s Extra Time and Winner on the Day regulations, approved on 19 January 2019 and the latest edition published, set the shoot-out. Penalties are for goals only. Each team registers five takers, a goalkeeper and a substitute goalkeeper, all players on the field at the end of extra time (the substitute keeper may come from the panel). A coin toss decides who may go first, and the teams kick alternately. The team that scores more of its five wins, and it stops as soon as one side cannot catch up. Level after five each, it goes to sudden death with the same five players, a kick each until one side has scored more from the same number. In hurling they are penalty pucks. The counter takes the kicks in that order, ends the shoot-out when the rules do and writes the result as “Home won 4-3 on penalties” after the scoreline.
Some competitions skip extra time and go straight to penalties, and some play it in other ways under their own regulations. So at full time with the scores level the counter offers extra time, a shoot-out with either team first, or a draw, and does not choose for you.
Online counter vs a clicker, an app, paper and a spreadsheet
Every counting method trades something away. This is what each one actually costs you.
| Feature | This online counter | Handheld clicker | Counter phone app | Pen and paper | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $5–$15 | Free with ads, or paid | Cost of paper | Subscription |
| Anything to install | No | Buy the device | App store download | No | Yes, or a web login |
| Several counts at once | Unlimited | One per device | Usually limited | Yes, messy | Yes |
| Fix a miscount | Undo and redo | Start over | Sometimes | Cross it out | Edit the cell |
| Counts by more than one | Any step size | One at a time | Sometimes | Manual maths | Yes |
| Below zero | Yes | No | Rarely | Yes | Yes |
| Keeps the count if you close it | Saves automatically | Until you reset the dial | Yes | If you keep the paper | Yes |
| Works with no signal | Yes, after first load | Yes | Yes | Yes | Often not |
| Keyboard and shortcuts | Full | None | None | None | Partial |
| Sends your data anywhere | Never | Never | Often, for accounts and ads | Never | Yes, to the cloud |
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Frequently asked questions
How does scoring work in Gaelic football?
A goal, under the crossbar, is worth three points; a point, over the crossbar between the posts, is worth one. Since 2025 a kick over the bar by a player with a foot on or outside the 40 m arc is worth two. Scores are written goals-points, so 1-15 is one goal and fifteen points, 18 in all, and the higher total wins.
What is a two-pointer in Gaelic football?
A score over the bar kicked by a player with at least one foot on or outside the 40 m arc, from play, a free, Solo and Go or a mark. The umpire waves an orange flag. Under the 2026 rule it counts two unless a player of the kicker’s own team touches the ball on the way; a defender’s or goalkeeper’s touch leaves it at two.
Is a 45 worth two points?
Not in men’s football: GAA Rule 3.1 makes a 45 over the bar one point, although it is kicked from outside the arc, in 2025 and again in 2026. In ladies football it is two points if it goes directly over or is deflected over by a defender, and one if a teammate plays it again (LGFA rules of April 2026).
Does a two-pointer count if it is touched?
Since 1 January 2026, yes if the touch was by a defender or the goalkeeper, and no if it was by a teammate of the kicker, which makes it one point. Under the 2025 rule any touch by another player made it one point, which is why some long-range scores in the 2025 championship counted only one.
How do you read a GAA score like 1-15 (18)?
The first number is goals and the second is points, so 1-15 is one goal and fifteen points. A goal is worth three, so the total in brackets is 18. Two-point scores are counted inside the points column at their value, so a player’s 0-5 (2 2pt, 1f) is three kicks: two two-pointers and a point from a free.
What do 2pt, f and 45 mean in a GAA scorers list?
They say how the points were scored. 2pt is a two-point score and 2 2pt means two of them; f or fs is points from frees; 45 is a point from a 45; m a mark; sl a sideline kick; 1-0 pen a goal from a penalty. So 1-3 (1-0 pen, 2f) is a penalty goal and three points, two of them frees.
Is there a two-point score in hurling?
No. In hurling every score over the bar is one point and a goal is three, wherever the shot is struck from, and the 2026 Official Guide’s hurling scoring rule has no arc. Trial rules announced in September 2026 for the Fitzgibbon Cup include two points for a sideline cut over the bar, but a trial is not the rule.
How long is a Gaelic football match?
Two halves of 30 minutes, with time added for delays; inter-county senior championship, league and tournament games are two halves of 35. Half-time is up to ten minutes, fifteen at inter-county senior level. Extra time, where played, is two periods of ten minutes with up to five minutes between them.
What happens if a Gaelic football match is a draw?
A league game stays a draw. A knockout game goes to extra time if the competition provides for it, and if still level is decided on the day by a shoot-out: five penalties a side for goals only, then sudden death. All-Ireland senior finals instead go to a replay after extra time.
Is this an official GAA scoreboard?
No. It is a score counter for club games, training and following a match, keeping everything in this browser and sending nothing anywhere. It cannot see the arc, a touch or the ball crossing the bar, so it scores what the umpires signal; the referee’s record and the competition’s regulations are what count.
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- Inventory
How to do a stock take
Counting is the easy part. Preparing, and knowing your count is right, is the job.
- Reference
Types of counters explained
Synchronous vs asynchronous, mod-N, ring and Johnson, industrial and PLC counters, plus mechanical and software counters.
- Build it
How to make a counter
Twenty lines gets you counting. Here is what to add after that, and why.
- Baseball
How to keep an official pitch count
Little League requires an official recorder at every game. Almost nobody explains the job.
- Dhikr
One tasbeeh is equal to how many?
The same phrase means a count of a hundred, a bead loop, a single dhikr, or the set after salah. Which one is meant, and when.
- Haematology
How to do a manual differential count
Why the pattern matters, how many cells is enough, and the imprecision built into the method itself.
- Birding
How to count a flock of birds
Blocks, tens, and why the number to report is the most seen at one time.
- Knitting
How to read knitting shaping instructions
Every 4th row, alt rows, at each end, AT THE SAME TIME — translated, with the rows they land on.
- Golf
Stableford points and net scores
Stroke index, strokes received, net score, points — in the order you actually need them.
- Surveys
How many people do you need to survey?
Why 385 answers a city and 45 answers a club, and the margin each sample size buys.
- Rules
How to read fencing pool results
V and V3, the indicator, why the ranking is V/M and not wins, ties at the cut and the seeded table.
- Rules
How to fill in a FIBA basketball scoresheet
The running score, team fouls, time-outs and the new 2026 foul marks, DI, FL and the circled T.
- Rules
Futsal rule changes 2025-26
Penalty-kick fouls stop counting, the dropped ball follows possession, and the 8-second rule is not futsal's.
- Rules
Futsal timekeeper and third referee
The stopped clock, the fifth-foul sign, the time-out slip, the two-minute entry slip and the eight signals from the table.
- Scorekeeping
How to write a GAA match report
The result line, the scorers line with 2pt, f and 45, what the brackets mean, team lists and subs, and how to check the sums.
- Rules
Handball timekeeper and scorekeeper
The clock, the suspension cards, the green card, the whistle that stops play, and the three attacks after an injury.
- Rules
Hockey rule changes from 1 November 2026
No second green or yellow, coaches' cards that cost a player, and what is not new since March.
- Rules
Netball scorer and timekeeper
The quarter and interval timetable, goals and missed shots, the centre pass column, holding time and the suspension clock.
- Training
Reps and sets explained
What 10 reps and 3x10 mean, where 3 sets of 10 came from, and what the 2026 ACSM review changed.
- Rules
Roundnet rule changes 2025-26
Equal serving, the bigger ball, a boundary at last and three touches on the serve, edition by edition.
- Rules
How to fill out a volleyball score sheet
The X in box 1, checkmarks and exit scores, time-outs, subs, the libero triangle, penalty points and the T-bar.
- Rules
Water polo table officials
Who runs which clock, the 18-second exclusions, the four flags, the third personal foul and the 45-second whistle.
- Rules
How to keep score in wrestling
T3 not T2, near falls by the second, riding time, the circled first points and how a result is written.