page_title: Scoring in Gaelic games
section_title: Scoring
hierarchical_section_title: Scoring in Gaelic games / Scoring
caption_attribution_description: English: Original diagram of scores available in the International rules football sport
context_page_description: This page discusses scoring in the Gaelic games of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, ladies' Gaelic football, international rules football and shinty-hurling.
  Note that although rounders and Gaelic handball are considered "Gaelic games", they are not listed under this page.
context_section_description: In hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, ladies' Gaelic football and shinty-hurling, the goalposts are placed 6.5 m (21 ft) apart and are at least 7 m (23 ft) tall, with a crossbar at a height of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Playing the ball (a sliotar or Gaelic football, depending on the game) between the posts and below the crossbar scores a goal (Irish: cúl), while playing the ball between the posts and above the crossbar scores a point (cúilín). A goal is worth 3 points. The umpire signifies a goal by waving a green flag, and a point by waving a white flag. Signal flags have been used since the 1900s; one game in the United States in 1907 used a US flag to signify points, and an Irish flag (presumably the tricolour) for a goal. The tradition of green flag for goal and white flag for point appears to date from the 1920s.
  In international rules football there are further posts 6.5 m (21 ft) either side of the goalposts. Playing the ball between the goalposts and these side posts scores a behind. Playing the ball between the centre posts and below the crossbar scores a goal, while playing the ball between the posts and above the crossbar scores an over. A goal is worth 6 points, an over 3, and a behind 1.
caption: Scoring in international rules football.
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