page_title: Mark (Australian rules football)
hierarchical_section_title: Mark (Australian rules football)
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeff Garlett marking during the AFL round twelve match between Melbourne and Collingwood on 12 June 2017 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria.
context_page_description: A mark is a skill in Australian rules football where a player cleanly catches a kicked ball that has travelled more than 15 metres without any other player touching it or the ball hitting the ground.
  Although catching the ball is also found in other codes of football, along with kicking the ball, it is one of the most prevalent skills in Australian football. Marking can also be one of the most spectacular and distinctive aspects of the game, and the best mark of the AFL season is awarded with the Mark of the Year, with similar competitions running across smaller leagues.
  The top markers in the Australian Football League, like Jason Dunstall and Jonathan Brown took an average of over eight marks per game. An AFL match between St Kilda and Port Adelaide in 2006 set a record of 303 marks in a single game.
context_section_description: A mark is a skill in Australian rules football where a player cleanly catches (or is deemed to have controlled the ball for sufficient time) a kicked ball that has travelled more than 15 metres without any other player touching it (prior to the player marking the ball) or the ball hitting the ground.
  Although catching the ball is also found in other codes of football, along with kicking the ball, it is one of the most prevalent skills in Australian football. Marking can also be one of the most spectacular and distinctive aspects of the game, and the best mark of the AFL season is awarded with the Mark of the Year, with similar competitions running across smaller leagues.
  The top markers in the Australian Football League, like Jason Dunstall and Jonathan Brown took an average of over eight marks per game. An AFL match between St Kilda and Port Adelaide in 2006 set a record of 303 marks in a single game.
caption: Jeff Garlett of Melbourne marking the ball
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