Lacrosse Score Sheet and Stat Sheet, With Free Printables

A lacrosse score sheet is the paper record of one game: the score by period, every goal and penalty in order, and a row for each player by jersey number with a column for every stat you track. Add a totals row and a goalie block for saves and goals against, and the sheet holds everything the box score needs. The two printables below put the player stats on the front and the goal and penalty log on the back, so one sheet of letter paper printed double-sided covers the whole game:

• Download the boys lacrosse score sheet (PDF)
• Download the girls lacrosse score sheet (PDF)

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Is a lacrosse score sheet the same as a stat sheet?

The two names often get used for the same thing, and many printables carry both halves. Strictly, a score sheet is the running log of the game: every goal on its own line with the period, the game clock, the scorer, and the assist, and every penalty or foul with the period, time, player, and call. A stat sheet counts what each player did over the whole game, one row per player, totaled at the end. Use the log to see when things happened and in what order, and the stat grid to see what each player did.

Keeping both is less work than it sounds, because they check each other. The goals your team logs on the back should match the G column total on the front, and the opponent's logged goals should match the goalie's goals against. That's why our printable puts the log on the back of the stat grid instead of on a separate page that can go missing.

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What columns go on a boys and a girls stat sheet?

Boys and girls lacrosse share most columns: goals (G), assists (A), shots on goal (SOG), missed shots (MS), ground balls (GB), caused turnovers (CT), and turnovers (TO). The boys sheet adds faceoffs won and lost (FO W, FO L) and a PEN column where the keeper writes the minutes of each penalty. The girls sheet adds draws won and lost (DC W, DC L), interceptions (INT), and fouls (FL), since girls lacrosse records fouls rather than timed penalties.

Interceptions trip up keepers who move between programs. A girls defender who catches a pass out of the air earns an interception, and it is not also a caused turnover. Boys lacrosse has no interception stat, so the same pick goes in the CT column.

The 8-meter free position gets a small team box on the girls sheet, for free positions awarded and goals, because it is a team situation rather than a player stat. Both sheets carry a goalie block with saves and goals against for each period, labeled 1 through 4 plus OT so it works whether your games are played in halves or quarters. The abbreviations follow our lacrosse stat abbreviations page, with W and L added to faceoffs and draws to split wins from losses.

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How do you keep a lacrosse score sheet honest?

A few columns go wrong the same way every season, and they are worth settling before the first whistle. Record the miss: shooting percentage is goals divided by every shot, and a miss skipped because nothing happened inflates that shooter's number all season. Mark SOG every time you mark G, since every goal is also a shot on goal. A shot off the pipe is a miss, not a shot on goal, and so is a shot a field player blocks before it reaches the goalie. Neither sheet has a column for the block itself.

The assist column causes the next most arguments. Only the final pass before a goal earns one, and only one player gets it. A goal off a dodge usually has no assist, and a player who scoops a ground ball or wins a faceoff and runs it in scored unassisted, so don't fill the column by reflex.

Faceoffs and draws split across two players. The W or L goes to the player who took it, and the ground ball goes to whoever came up with the ball, often a wing or a teammate on the circle. Every won faceoff or draw produces a ground ball for somebody, so a GB total lower than your faceoff or draw wins means a ground ball went unrecorded.

Our guide to what a lacrosse stat keeper needs to know before game day walks through each of these calls, plus the line between a save and a block. Read it once before the season, and lean on the key printed under the grid during the game, which repeats each column's rule in a line.

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What do you do with the sheet after the game?

Total every column before you leave the field, while the plays are still fresh, then check the totals against each other. The G column total should match your final score in the period box. The goalie block's goals against should match the opponent's final score. Assists can never outnumber goals. If a number is off, walk the scoring log on the back in order until you find the goal that went missing.

Then hand the sheet to your coach. SquadProfile records the same columns live, one tap per play: the player, then the stat the play earned. The app adds the shot on goal to each goal for you and keeps the totals for every player and for the team. The lacrosse stat glossary defines every column on both sheets, for boys and girls lacrosse.