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Official Rules of Ultimate

WFDF

Australia uses the WFDF Rules of Ultimate, the same as used at all World Championships. Individual events may have local variants.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is the international governing body for all flying disc sports.

A Pocket Version of the Rules can be found here.

UPA

The Ultimate Players Association (UPA) is the governing body in the United States, where ultimate was first invented. All play up to national level in North America (Canada and the U.S.) takes place under UPA 11th Edition Rules.

Differences between WFDF and UPA

The chief differences between the WFDF rules and UPA rules are listed here.

For those who are new to WFDF rules, please note that under WFDF rules:

endzones are 18 metres deep, and the playing field proper is 64 metres long
if the disc is in the air when a call is made, the disc may be returned to the thrower in some situations
a player must be within 5 metres of the player they are guarding to call a pick
a team must put the disc into play without delay, but there is no specific time limit
observers are not used

Simple Rules

There is a printable MS Word version of the simple rules which you can use for distributing to newcomers to our sport.

Variations on Ultimate

There are a number of games loosely based on ultimate for which some simple rules have been written:

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