The main version of rugby is a 15-aside game with two 40 minute halves with a 5 to 10 minute half time interval. The rules of rugby limit Under 19 aged Rugby players to a maximum game time of 35 minutes for each half.
Rugby has limited stoppage of the clock and flows much more like soccer. A referee only stops the clock for injuries or other lengthy delays such as a player losing a boot. The referee is the sole judge of time and the amount of injury time in any given half depends on how often the ref stops his watch during the game. However it is unusual for there to be more than a couple of minutes of additional injury time and it is not added on at the end of the half like in soccer as the referee stops his/her watch when needed. This means a standard High School rugby game is over in no longer than 90 minutes. High School aged players are asked to be at the nominated playing field at least 60 minutes before each game starts so this will need to be factored in when allowing for transport to a game.
High School – U19/U16 teams
Most games are played on Saturday mornings between 11am and 3pm. Games will be rotated around home fields of the major clubs.
All games are posted on our Sport Engine site and can be easily accessed via the Sport Engine App (Apple and Android). Once you have downloaded the App, log in under your SE account, search for then select your team(s) as a Favorite and you will see the time, location and field number and you will receive notifications of games times, locations and scores. Away games can be in other locations usually on a Friday night and we usually travel to Tucson up to two times per season.
U14/U12/U10/U8
All games are played on Saturday mornings between 9 to 11am at the fields that will be rotated between the major clubs in the competition. All games are posted on our Sport Engine site and can be easily accessed via the Sport Engine App (Apple and Android). Once you have downloaded the App, log in under your SE account, search for then select your team(s) as a Favorite and you will see the time. location and field number.