Golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association football, bandy, baseball, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, floorball, goalball, and korfball to decide the winner of a match in which scores are equal at the end of normal time.
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Golden goal is still used in NCAA matches and in FIH sanctioned field hockey games, as well as in FIRS sanctioned roller hockey games.
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Golden goal was introduced due to perceived failings of other means of resolving a draw in round-robin or knock-out tournaments where a winner is required.
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Golden goal rule comes into use at the end of regulation of every National Hockey League game where the score is tied.
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The game ended if a Golden goal is scored; otherwise, a penalty shootout determined the winner.
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The golden goal was not compulsory, and individual competitions using extra time could choose whether to apply it during extra time.
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Less than a year later on 1 July 2004, Galasek would be on the field when the silver Golden goal was featured in the only major competitive match to be decided by a silver Golden goal: that of the semi-final match at Euro 2004 between Greece and the Czech Republic.
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However, the silver Golden goal would eliminate the Czech Republic as Traianos Dellas scored for Greece after a corner kick in the last two seconds of the first period of extra time.
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Since the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the golden goal has never been used in the event of a drawn match during the knockout stage, as FIFA restored the original rules: in the event of a drawn game after the original 90 minutes, two straight 15-minute periods of extra time are played.
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