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Position in team sports is 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.
For information about team or player positions in some particular sports, see:
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Basketball
* Basketball positionsBatting sports
*Baseball fielding positions
In the sport of baseball, each of the nine players on a team is assigned a particular fielding position when it is their turn to play defense. Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer ...
* Cricket fielding positions
Football
* Association football positions * American football positions * Gaelic football positions * Rugby league positions * Rugby union positionsHockey
*Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
positions are virtually the same as the association football positions
* Field hockey positions
* Ice hockey positions:
** Goaltender
** Defenceman
**Forward
Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.
Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
** Point forward
** Power forward (basketball)
** Sm ...
"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.See also
* Gaelic football, hurling and camogie positions Terminology used in multiple sports {{Sports-stub