Back Zummerlə birgə atış Azerbaijani Cistella sobre la botzina Catalan Buzzer Beater German Buzzer beater Greek Canasta sobre la bocina Spanish بازر بیتر Persian Buzzer beater (basket-ball) French Buzzer beater Italian ブザービーター Japanese 버저 비터 Korean
In timed sports, a buzzer beater is a successful shot that upon completion leaves zero seconds on the game clock. A buzzer sounds whenever a game clock expires, hence the name "buzzer beater". In basketball, the concept normally applies to baskets that beat an end-of-quarter/2nd-half/overtime buzzer but is sometimes applied to shots that beat the shot clock buzzer.
Officials in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Basketball Association, Women's National Basketball Association, Serie A (Italy), and the Euroleague (Final Four series only, effective 2006) are required to use instant replay to assess whether a shot made at the end of a period was in fact released before the game clock expired. Since 2002, the NBA also has mandated LED light strips along the edges of the backboard and the edge of the scorer's table for the purposes of identifying the end of a period.