#Stop the clock plus#

Making the clock run without stopping until halftime is the simplest way to do it and maybe what sounded more logical back in the 1800s when soccer was born. With that said, I truly believe it is made in this way on purpose. I think every person that loves soccer is aware that this is not something normal. However, I know that what you really want to know is why are the rules like this? Does this even make sense? The rules only say that there will be two halves of 45 minutes each. I could tell you that the time never stops because there are no laws in the rule book that regulate how and when it will stop. Make sure to keep reading to understand how time management in soccer works. However, time doesn’t stop on these breaks either. The closest thing to this in soccer is the recently incorporated “cooling breaks”.

This exists in indoor soccer but not field soccer, it’s a lot simpler. There also exist timeouts that can stop the clock.

In other sports, the clock usually stops when the player or the ball is out of bounce.

#Stop the clock plus#

In professional games, each half has a duration of 45 minutes plus the added time at the end of each half to make up for the time lost when the clock kept running even though nobody was actually playing. So, when does the referee stop the clock in a soccer game? The clock in a soccer game only stops at halftime. It might be something hard to understand for fans of other sports like Basketball and American Football where there countless rules that talk about how time should be managed during the game.

As a long time soccer enthusiast, I have always thought about why the clock in soccer games seem to never stop.