What if it's a draw in the PWR Final 2025?

We didn't see a draw in the PWR 2024-25 season but what happens if we get our first one today

If it is a draw after 80 minutes of play in the PWR Final 2024-25 our match officials will have everything covered with a tried and test system.

If at the end of a semi-final or the final, after extra-time has been played, the scores remain equal and the number of tries scored in the Match is equal, then the referee will conduct a place-kick competition to determine the winner of the Match, according to the following procedures:

• All Players and the Match Officials will remain on the playing area. The referee will call the captains of the two teams at the end of the match to the centre of the pitch and will conduct two coin tosses. The first toss of the coin will determine which team selects the end of the playing area at which all place kicks will be taken; the second toss of the coin will determine which team kicks first or second.
• The Match Officials and the six nominated Players (3 from each side) will assemble on the halfway line. All other Players and team management must remain in the technical areas. No one other than the Match Officials and the participating Players are allowed in the playing area or behind the posts for the duration of the kicking competition.
• Team A and Team B will each nominate 3 kickers from the Players on the pitch at the end of extra time to participate in the place kick competition.
• Each kicker will be allocated a number i.e., Kicker 1, Kicker 2, or Kicker 3. This designation cannot change.
• If during the place kick competition any of the 3 kickers becomes injured, they will be replaced by a Player who was on the pitch at the end of extra time.
• The first phase of the competition will consist of 6 kicks from 6 positions as outlined in the diagram below.
• Each kicker will take 2 kicks in the following order:-
  • Kicker 1 from team A and Kicker 1 from team B will each take a kick from position 1.
  • Kicker 2 from team A and Kicker 2 from team B will each take a kick from position 2.
  • Kicker 3 from team A and Kicker 3 from team B will each take a kick from position 3.
  • Kicker 1 from team A and Kicker 1 from team B will each take a kick from position 4.
  • Kicker 2 from team A and Kicker 2 from team B will each take a kick from position 5.
  • Kicker 3 from team A and Kicker 3 from team B will each take a kick from position 6.
• If the teams are level at the end of the 6-kick competition, there will be a ‘sudden death competition’. All kicks will take place from position 4 and kicks will be taken in the following order:-
  • First to kick will be Kicker 1 from each team.
  • Second to kick will be Kicker 2 from each team.
  • Third to kick will be Kicker 3 from each team.
  • Kicks will continue in this order until a point is reached where each team has taken the same number of sudden death kicks, but one team has scored one more than the other team. When this point is reached the team that has scored more successful kicks will be declared the winner.
• For the avoidance of doubt the referee is the sole judge of whether a kick has been successful. In reaching this decision the Match Referee may rely on assistance from their assistant referees and/or Television match official.