Position in team sports refers to 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.

Some player positions may be official, others unofficial. For example, baseball rules govern the pitcher by that name, but not the shortstop, where pitcher and shortstop are two of baseball's nine fielding positions. A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The position of the shortstop A shortstop moves to his left, toward the center of the field, to play a ground ball Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. ...

For information about team or player positions in some particular sports see

• Basketball positions

The five tactical basketball positions normally employed by organized basketball teams are: center, power forward, small forward, point guard and shooting guard. ...

Batting sports

• Batting position
• Baseball fielding positions
• Cricket fielding positions

There are 9 fielding positions in baseball. ... Fielding in the sport of cricket is what fielders do to collect the ball when it is struck by the batsman in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball or running the batsman...

Football

• Football (American) positions
• Football (soccer) positions

In American football, each team has 11 players on the field at one time. ... All the positions. ...

Hockey

• Field hockey positions
• Ice hockey position: Goaltender, Defenceman, Forward

A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... This article is about the goaltender in ice hockey. ... Defence (defense in the U.S.A.) in hockey is a player position with a primary responsibility to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals. ... Forward is a hockey player position on the ice whose responsibility is primarily offence. ...

Gaelic Sports

• Gaelic football and Hurling positions

A stylised Celtic cross serves as the traditional logo of the GAA. The Gaelic Athletic Association (The GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael) is an organisation which is mostly focussed on promoting gaelic games: that is, Irish sports, such as hurling and camogie, Gaelic football and handball, and rounders. ... The following are the positions in the Gaelic sports of Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. ...

"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.