Sending-off offences
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
A player, substitute or substituted player who commits any of the following offences is sent off:
· denying a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent whose overall movement is towards the offender's goal by an offence punishable by a free kick (unless as outlined below)
Verdicts that turn on it 14
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Direct free kick + red card: denied a goal-scoring opportunityfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Indirect free kick to the opponentsfree-kick
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-the-ball
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- A direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- On the nearest boundary line, and a penalty if that is inside their own areaoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kick on the nearest boundary lineoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick where the object struck, or would haveoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Holding: a direct free kick, or a penalty kick in the offender's own areaoff-the-ball
Explained in the rules library 3
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 8
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
- The Bosnia defender's red cardSwitzerland vs Bosnia
- Al Amin's trip on BuchananQatar vs Canada
- Le Normand's push on MikautadzeAtlético Madrid vs Villarreal
- Lejeune's trip on CarrerasReal Madrid vs Rayo Vallecano
- Montes's red card for the challenge on MudauMexico vs South Africa
- Ngoy's pull on TaremiBelgium vs Iran
- Chust's trip on RaphinhaElche vs Barcelona
- Sithole's pull on GutiérrezMexico vs South Africa
Questions that ask it 1
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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