# RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League

- Canonical: https://robot-fighting-championship.com/leagues/robocup-hsl
- Record family: leagues
- Stable ID: robocup-hsl
- Data snapshot: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Data source: fixture

## Direct answer

RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League is an autonomous football competition, not a robot-fighting league. It is included because its perception, locomotion and team autonomy are technically adjacent to humanoid combat.

## Classification

- **Record status**: Active federation league
- **Entity kind**: federation-league
- **Field role**: adjacent
- **Competition class**: Autonomous humanoid football league · adjacent field
- **Control mode**: Autonomous
- **Hardware field**: Open / class-defined field

## History

RoboCup began in 1997 and the Humanoid League has developed a long-running research competition around autonomous bipedal football.

## Format

Current official material separates KidSize and AdultSize. KidSize teams field four autonomous humanoids; size and technical rules are published by the league technical committee.

## Broadcast

The federation and league publish event footage and technical material. Project H retains all ten indexed teams rather than truncating the research roster.

## Verification boundary

The federation, league page and final rules PDF are primary sources. Football results are never merged into combat records.

## Rules status

**Official Humanoid League rules.** The Humanoid League publishes annual final rules and technical committee decisions for autonomous soccer.

- **KidSize**: 40–100 cm — Four robots per team
- **AdultSize**: 100–200 cm — Separate size field
- **Control**: Autonomous — No combat classification

## Evidence claims

No published records.

## Events

No published records.

## Fights

No published records.

## Robots

- ALICE v4 — Custom humanoid — record Best customized

## Teams

- Tsinghua Hephaestus — Tsinghua University
- Hamburg Bit-Bots — Universität Hamburg
- Rhoban — Université de Bordeaux
- Invic — Wuhan University
- GeoHBots — China University of Geosciences
- B-Human — Universität Bremen / DFKI
- HTWK Robots — Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
- CAU Mountain&Sea — China Agricultural University
- Water — Beijing Information Science & Technology University
- HERoEHS — Institution not published

## People

No published records.

## Rules

No published records.

## Relationships

- org:robocup operates league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- event:robocup-2026 edition_of league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- robot:alice-v4 competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence medium
- team:team-tsinghua-hephaestus competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-invic competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-bit-bots competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-geohbots competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-bhuman competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-htwk competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-rhoban competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-cau competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-water competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high
- team:team-heroehs competes_in league:robocup-hsl — confidence high

## Media

- image: Humanoid robots playing an official RoboCup match; source https://robocup.org/system/homes/slide_1s/000/000/001/home/Fotos_%28730%29.jpg?1770668912; credit RoboCup Federation; rights prototype-only

## Primary sources

- [League overview — RoboCup Humanoid League](https://humanoid.robocup.org/): Official class and autonomy overview.
- [Rules index — RoboCup Humanoid League](https://humanoid.robocup.org/materials/rules/): Official annual rules archive.
- [2025 final rules — RoboCup Humanoid League](https://humanoid.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/RC-HL-2025-Rules.pdf): Official final rules PDF.

## Citation boundary

Use the canonical HTML page for visible evidence state, context, corrections and source relationships. This Markdown representation is generated from the same published Project H record and contains no draft or private fields.