page_title: Buzkashi
section_title: Kyrgyzstan
hierarchical_section_title: Buzkashi / Rules and variations / Kyrgyzstan
context_page_description: Buzkashi is a Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. Similar games are known as kokpar, kupkari, and ulak tartysh in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and as kökbörü and gökbörü in Turkey, where it is played mainly by communities originally from Central Asia.
context_section_description: Rules of kokboru have undergone several changes throughout history. Modernized rules of kokboru are:
  There are two teams with 12 participants each.
  Only 4 players a team are allowed to play on the field at any given time.
  Teams are allowed to substitute players or their horses.
  The game is played on a field 200 meters long and 70 meters wide.
  Two kazans – big goals with a 4.4 meters in diameter and 1.2 meters high are placed on opposite sides of a field.
  The total duration of three periods is 60 minutes.
  There is a 10 minute break between each period.
  A goal is scored each time a ulak (goat carcass) is placed in an opponent's kazan.
  A kokboru is brought to centre of the field after scoring a goal.
  It is also prohibited to ride towards the spectators and/or receive spectators' assistance or to start a kokboru game without giving an oath to play justly.
caption: Kokboru field and two football fields