Tells you how the game ended, whether in regular time, overtime or other. Limited to the following vocabulary items: regular, overtime, shootout, extra-time, random, authority-decision. This attribute is in the general statAttributes group and would most likely be used in the team-stats or player-stats elements.

Team and player elements are now optional as children of <sports-event>. This is an important change which allows you to code events where the participants are not yet determined, such as in a playoff round.

Multiple home-location elements allowed as children. This means you can indicate a player's place of birth, and the place being represented. This is important for Olympics athletes who may be representing a country other than the one in which they were born.

These tournament status elements join "round-status" as attributes describing the status of various levels and divisions of a tournament structure. They mark status of the whole tournament, a tournament division or a tournament stage.

<sports-content-codes> elements are now allowed as children of these element. This is important to indicate what sport or discipline is being played in a multi-sport tournament like the Olympics.

The following vocabulary items were added: representative, start-location, stage-location, end-location, training-location. "representative" is for the location being represented. "start-location" and "end-location" are for events that move location, like a stage of a cycling tournament. "stage-location" is for tournaments that host stages at different locations, such as the Alpine World Cup season.

A vocabulary to express player handedness, injury side, batting side, etc. Allowed values are left, right and both.

The following vocabulary items were added: qualification and hosted. "qualification" indicates that the purpose of the tournament phase is to determine the qualifiers for a later stage. Use "hosted" to indicate a stage in a tournament that occurs at multiple locations in the course of a season, such as the Alpine World Cup.

This is a generic replacement for the following now-deprecated elements: action-soccer-score-attempt, action-soccer-offside, action-soccer-foul, action-soccer-timeout. Instead, the type of play will be indicated by the "play-type" attribute. The following vocabulary items are allowed for play type: shot, offside, foul, corner, throw-in, pass, penalty, timeout, cross.

This is a generic replacement for the following now-deprecated action-soccer-assisting-player element. Multiple roles (not just assists) will be indicated by the "role" attribute. The following roles are covered: on-field, scorer, assist, shooter, blocker, penalty-committed-by, penalty-committed-against, giveaway, takeaway, thrower, corner-kicker, offside, free-kicker, penalty-kicker, goalkeeper.

Represents the formation of the team on the field starting from the back of the field. This can be written as 4-4-2 where the hyphens separates the lines on the field from the defense at left to the forwards to the right.

Indicates line-position player had at the start of the game or when the player entered the game.

The result of a penalty. Values are: indirect-freekick, direct-freekick, penalty-shot, free-kick, play-on.

Additional values are: shot, offside, foul, corner, throw-in, pass, penalty, timeout, cross.

Used to indicate role in action-soccer-play-participant element. Values are: on-field, scorer, assist, shooter, blocker, penalty-committed-by, penalty-committed-against, giveaway, takeaway, thrower, corner-kicker, offside, free-kicker, penalty-kicker, goalkeeper.

Additional values are: lob, chip, foot, chest, knee, thigh, back. The values "right-foot" and "left-foot" are deprecated in favour of bodySide (see core addition above) plus "foot"

Additional values are: serious-foul-play, violent-conduct, spitting, offensive-language, offensive-gestures, professional-foul, unsporting-behaviour, delaying-restart, illegal-reentry, illegal-entry, required-distance-foul, illegal-exit, hand-ball, tackle.