How many points are awarded for a safety in a football game?
Three points for a win Three points for a win Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which three (rather than two) points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. If the game is drawn, each team receives one point. The system places additional value on wins compared to draws such that teams with a higher number of wins may rank higher in tables than teams with a lower number of wins but more draws. Many leagues and competitions originally awarded two
Records for safeties in football safety. According to Pro-Football Reference, only 37 games in NFL history (including the AFPA, AAFC and AFL, leagues that were later merged into the NFL) and only seven since the NFL/AFL merger of 1970 have ended with one team scoring only a safety (or multiple safeties). ^ This is the only game in NFL history that finished with either the winning or the losing team scoring a total of 4 points. † This was the first ever game of the Pittsburgh Steelers, then the Pirates, thus scoring the franchise's first points on a safety. ‡ This is the only playoff