Does extra time count in a prediction game? 90 minutes, extra time, penalties

In short:

• In the league, the result after 90 minutes always counts (plus stoppage time). The Premier League and the Bundesliga have no extra time and no shootout — a draw stays a draw.
• In the cup, it depends on your league’s rule. Either only the 90-minute result counts — so a 1–1 that finishes 2–1 after extra time is a predicted draw — or the full result including extra time and penalties counts, and the 2–1 is what’s graded.
• Stoppage time is part of the 90 minutes. A goal in the 90th+4 counts normally. That is not extra time — and confusing the two is the single most common mistake.
• When the shootout counts, it counts in full: 2–2 after extra time, won 6–5 on penalties, is recorded as 8–7 — not 3–2.
• The one thing to settle first: decide whether your cup matches are graded after 90 minutes or on the full result — before the first round kicks off. Afterwards it’s an argument.

The short answer: 90 minutes in the league, “it depends” in the cup

In almost every prediction game you predict the result after 90 minutes — regular time plus stoppage time. In the Premier League and the Bundesliga that is the whole story: these matches have no extra time and no shootout. If it’s 1–1, it’s 1–1, both teams take their point, done.

It only changes in a knockout competition — the FA Cup, the DFB-Pokal, the Champions League. There a winner has to emerge on the day, so a level score keeps going: extra time first, then penalties. And here one rule in your league decides which score counts for your tip — the one after 90 minutes, or the one right at the end.

That one rule is the whole article. Everything else is an example of it.

Why the league counts after 90, and why the cup feels different

A league is decided by a table, not by a single match. A draw is a full result there: a point each, nobody has to lose. There is nothing to “decide” — so a league match ends after 90 minutes (plus stoppage time), and that is exactly the result you predict.

A cup is a knockout competition: one team goes through, the other is out. So a level score after 90 minutes keeps playing. Since 2024/25 the FA Cup has no replays, so every level tie now goes to extra time and then penalties on the day (FA Cup rules 2024/25, as of 16 July 2026). That is why a 1–1 in the cup never feels finished — even though, for your tip, it may be. Whether your tip stays on the 1–1 after 90 minutes or moves to the later 2–1 is not a question of the football rules but of the grading rule — and that one is yours to set.

Extra time: when it counts and when it doesn’t exist

In the league there is no extra time — the question never comes up. In the cup it hangs on your league’s grading rule:

• Grading after 90 minutes: the extra-time goals are ignored. Your tip is checked against the 90-minute score. A 1–1 that finishes 2–1 after extra time is a predicted draw — a 1–1 tip has a draw right.
• Grading on the full result: extra time counts. The 1–1 becomes the 2–1, and a 1–1 tip missed the winner — so zero points, while a 2–1 tip is exactly right.

This is the exact situation that pulls every cup round apart once: “My tip was 1–1, then it went to extra time, and it finished 2–1 — what counts now?” The honest answer is not “the one” or “the other”, but: it hangs on the rule your league picked before kick-off. That is why you pick it beforehand.

How much a correct winner, a correct goal difference, or an exact result is worth in the end is a different question — the question of your scoring system. We took that one apart here: Scoring systems in a prediction game.

Penalties: if they count, they count in full

A shootout only happens in a knockout, and only if it’s still level after 120 minutes. Whether it counts for your tip is decided by the same rule again:

• Grading after 90 minutes: the shootout is ignored. The tie counts as the draw after 90 minutes.
• Grading on the full result: the shootout counts — and it counts in full. The convention (documented by Kicktipp too) is not “+1 to the winner”, but: every goal counts, the ones from the shootout included.

The famous example comes from Kicktipp itself: Portugal–England, Euro 2004 — 2–2 after extra time, 6–5 on penalties, recorded as 8–7 (Kicktipp help 2/209, as of 16 July 2026). Not 3–2. We say it this plainly because we had it wrong at first: we’d assumed “+1 to the winner”, which would have turned the 2–2 into a 3–2. Kicktipp’s own worked example corrected us — and we changed the scoring engine before a single match had been scored. Anyone can read it at the link above; that is the whole point.

And a small piece of logic on the side: a shootout can never end level. So under full-result grading, a predicted draw on such a tie is always a miss — there is a winner in the end.

Stoppage time is part of the 90 minutes — the most common mistake

A goal in the 90th+4 is not an extra-time goal. Stoppage time is part of regular time — it belongs to the “90 minutes”, even when the clock shows 94. So a late equaliser in stoppage time changes the 90-minute result completely normally, in every competition, league and cup alike.

It gets confused a lot: “But the goal only came in stoppage time, does it still count?” — Yes, always. Extra time is something else: two additional 15-minute halves that only exist in a knockout and only begin after the 90 minutes plus stoppage time have run out level. Keep those two apart and you’ve understood half the article already.

Abandonment, awarded results, postponements: the rare cases

Three cases are rare, but when they happen they cause trouble — here, briefly, is how they normally go:

• Abandonment (storm, crowd trouble, floodlight failure): an abandoned match is not decided by the scoreboard but by the governing body — it’s rescheduled or awarded off the pitch. Only the official final result is graded, not the score at the moment of abandonment.
• Awarded result (a walkover, e.g. 2–0 for a rules breach): an awarded result like this is treated as a normal result and predicted-and-graded normally.
• Postponement (a rearranged match): a postponed match is graded when it’s actually played and confirmed. The deadline stays the original kick-off — the match moves, your deadline doesn’t.

The common thread: we grade the confirmed, official result — never a provisional in-play score. What a good prediction game does when a result is later corrected is here: We never rewrite results.

How Tipperoo handles it

Tipperoo grades 90 minutes, extra time and penalties explicitly — a documented, tested part of our scoring engine, not something left to chance in the background. And we grade only once a result is confirmed: as long as two sources disagree, your matchday isn’t final. Corrections are then recomputed transparently rather than quietly overwritten (more on that).

By default we grade cup ties on the full result — extra time and penalties included, as in the 8–7 example above. A 1–1 that finishes 2–1 after extra time is a 2–1 on Tipperoo too.

A note for anyone moving an existing cup league over: Kicktipp’s documented default also grades the full result including the shootout (the 8–7 above, help 2/209) — grading on the full result is the common convention, not something we invented. Still, agree before kick-off which rule applies in your league, so nobody argues over a shifted table afterwards.

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Statements about Kicktipp are based on Kicktipp’s publicly accessible help pages (as of 16 July 2026) and serve a factual, truthful comparison. Competition rules (DFB-Pokal, FA Cup) per publicly accessible sources, as of 16 July 2026. Not affiliated with the DFL, the DFB, the Bundesliga or the Premier League; Kicktipp is a trademark of its respective owners.