Question Number: 17525

League Specific 10/26/2007

RE: premier soccer Under 16

brad stewart of taylor, mi usa asks...

i play high school soccer and i had a game go to a 1 to 1 tie. in the penalty shootout, we scored 3 goals to 2. the newspaper credited me and my other 2 teammates for the goals but what would the final score be? 2-1 or 4-3 ???

Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer

Neither. the score line would look like this:

Your Guys 1:1 Them Guys, Your Guys run out winners on Penalties 3:2

Answer provided by Referee Gary Voshol

I seem to remember a newspaper and/or Bernie S on TV reporting such a game with a score of 2-1. Whether that is a quirk of the media or a quirk of how MSHAA reports scores, I couldn't say.

In a FIFA/USSF game, the report would be as Ref Fleischer states. The short "box score" version would be something like

1:1 (x:y) 3:2

where x and y were the halftime scores. If overtime was played, the score at the end of the regular game time would also be noted, with initials a.e.t. which I think stands for "after elapsed time".