1. Direct free kick
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
If an offence involves contact, it is penalised by a direct free kick.
Verdicts that turn on it 9
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-the-ball
- No offence: play onfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick, no card: careless foulfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick, no card: careless foulfoul-sanction
- No free kick and no card: the ball was out of playfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Yellow card, not red: advantage was played on a reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Yellow card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
Explained in the rules library 9
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 14
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
- Calatrava's challenge on CarrerasEspanyol vs Real Madrid
- Gordon's tackle on RincónBarcelona vs Athletic Club
- Lejeune's trip on CarrerasReal Madrid vs Rayo Vallecano
- Schlager and Posch's double tackle on MartinezArgentina vs Austria
- Mané's sliding tackle on MbappéFrance vs Senegal
- Messi's fall in the boxArgentina vs Algeria
- Modric's missed clearance on MaduekeEngland vs Croatia
- Yamal's step on a defenderBarcelona vs Athletic Club
- Altimira's kick into BatrakovSporting CP vs Galatasaray
- Fabinho's follow-throughBrazil vs Morocco
- Bruno Guimaraes's stamp on HakimiBrazil vs Morocco
- Guruzeta's boot to Cubarsí's headBarcelona vs Athletic Club
- Saliba's stamp on a grounded opponentFrance vs Senegal
- The tackle on Vinicius JuniorBrazil vs Morocco
Questions that ask it 3
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
A threshold you can weigh 3
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