Fouls and Misconduct
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
Direct and indirect free kicks and penalty kicks can only be awarded for offences committed when the ball is in play.
Verdicts that turn on it 5
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- No free kick and no card: the ball was out of playfoul-sanction
- Yellow card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- Yellow card for a lack of respect, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- A warning, then a caution, and a penalty kick only once the ball is in playoff-the-ball
- Restarted according to the previous decisionoff-the-ball
Explained in the rules library 3
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Questions that ask it 1
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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