Team sport

As a team sport is a kind of sport is called, compete in the not single individuals, but in a certain way structured groups called teams in a competition against each other. These sports will also be called team game, which differs mainly by its greater differentiation of a party game.

These are usually complex sports (often ball sports ), where it is not just a simple test of strength in the sense of "faster, higher, further ". Rather, interaction and tactics are the team sports as opposed to individual sports crucial for success. The togetherness of the team is doing most marked during the competition / game by common characteristics (eg color ) clothing ( eg jersey). The individual in the team is, however, often made recognizable by a back number. Even outside the game / the competition partially clothing is worn, the team documented for the affiliation (eg, college jackets in American team sports ), but not only by athletes themselves, but also by the fans of the team.

The teams are usually organized in leagues and championships are held.

There are also sports that are seen as individual sports, but in which is often encountered as a team in a team and / or where there are double games as a variant in which two players compete against two others. Well-known examples with doubles and teams are tennis, badminton and table football; Examples with teams, but without double are chess and skat.

Distinctions

Overall, the division into team sports and individual sports is not always a problem, because there are different combinations in individual sports. There are the following kinds of team sport.

Reiner team sports

This includes sports that can only be operated as a team sport. The number of team participants is set for the team. In order to successfully participate in championships and tournaments, teams need a squad, which is considerably larger than the An incoming beginning of the game the number of players. Thus, for example, in football a team of ten field players and one goalkeeper. A maximum of three substitutes may be changed if required in competition matches from a squad to replace exhausted or injured players or to make tactical changes.

Teams of two people, for example in dance sports or beach volleyball the rule. Here also no substitute can be used. The two partners are necessarily interdependent. The failure of a person here means the loss of competitiveness. A team sport with three people is the Eventing ( Fishing )

Formations

In addition, there are sports played in the various formations that interact cooperatively, as in tennis or petanque. During a game of tennis is played primarily to individual, there is little playing pétanque tournaments for the (not popular ) single formation " Tête à tête ". (for more information see Ball Sports ) These formations are a common tactic, interaction and arrangements for the success in the competition. Even when rowing there are different formations One, two, four and eight. Here it is mainly due to uniform motion and a common race tactics. This is also roughly the team time trial in cycling, while there are different tasks for the team members in cycling tours.

Stagger

In some sports seasons are played, which can be as distinct from pure team ratings by a common race tactics and adherence to changing regulations.

Team scores

Especially for the ligand - operation, there is in most sports teams, which consist of single matches and possibly formations, whose results are added together.