🏖️Rules Beach Volleyball

Beach volleyball pits two teams of two players against each other on a sand court divided by a net. Each team has a maximum of three touches to send the ball back over the net without letting it land on its own side. It is an Olympic discipline governed internationally by the FIVB.

Land the ball in the opponents' court or force them into a fault, while preventing the ball from touching the sand on your own side.

• •Teams of 2 players, with no substitutions and no fixed positional rotation.
• •A maximum of 3 touches per team before returning the ball.
• •A player may not touch the ball twice in a row (except right after a block).
• •The ball must be hit, never held or thrown.
• •The serve is made from behind the back line and must clear the net.
• •The block counts as one of the team's 3 touches.

A point is scored on every rally: the team that wins the rally scores, whether or not it served. If the receiving team wins the rally, it scores and gains the right to serve. The serving player alternates between the two partners each time the team regains the serve.

Match is best of 3 sets. Sets 1 and 2 are played to 21 points (with a 2-point lead); the deciding 3rd set is played to 15 points (with a 2-point lead). Each team gets one 30-second timeout per set.

The match is won by the first team to win 2 sets. A set is won with at least a 2-point lead.