Kevin Friend explains the importance of timekeeping in his job as a Premier League referee.

Test your pupils on their knowledge of calculating time with this quiz. Try it again at the end to test their understanding.

The answers can be found at the end of the quiz.

Practise making calculations and solving problems that involve measures of time during Premier League football matches.

There are three levels of questions. Encourage your pupils to work through them all or choose the correct level for your class. 

Time to get up!

In order to check your pupils understanding of calculations involving time, encourage them to make three different football match timelines. 

Pupils will first need to make time and match event cards by writing on pieces of paper or printing off the ones made by us here:

- Timeline cards
- Match event cards

Then using the instructions on the activity sheets, add the key match events along the timeline and answer the questions.

Timeline 1
Timeline 2
Timeline 3

Pupils will write a football match report based on the results of a Premier League football match from this season, using knowledge of adding and subtracting time.

Access a football match timeline and the results of any game on the Premier League website.