Position (team sports)

Position (team sports)

Position in team sports refers to the joint arrangement of a team on its field of play during a game and to the standardized place of any individual player in that arrangement. Much instruction, strategy, and reporting is organized by a set of individual player positions that is standard for the sport.

Some player positions may be official, others unofficial. For example, baseball rules govern the pitcher by that name, but not the shortstop, where pitcher and shortstop are two of baseball's nine fielding positions.

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For information about team or player positions in some particular sports, see:

*Basketball positions

Batting sports

*Batting position
*Baseball fielding positions
*Cricket fielding positions

Football

*Football (American) positions
*Football (soccer) positions
*Gaelic football positions
*Rugby league positions
*Rugby union positions


=Gaelic Sports=

*Gaelic football and Hurling positions

Hockey

*Field hockey positions
*Ice hockey positions:
**Goaltender
**Defenceman
**Forward

"Service" sports

*Lawn tennis players in doubles competition alternate between two positions. That is, the service side alternates as "server" and partner while the receiving side alternates as "receiver" and partner. There is no substitution of players and the two partners necessarily divide the two pairs of positions almost equally.

*Volleyball players rotate through six positions, taken on the court at the serve. But the positions are not fixed during a volley, only moderately regulated. Volleyball player specialization is highly refined and strategy focuses on how to use specialized players in unequal ways.


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