1. Direct free kick
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences:
· a handball offence (except for the goalkeeper within their penalty area)
Verdicts that turn on it 9
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- No handball offence: the goalkeeper in their own penalty areahandball
- Handball: deliberate touch after deflectionhandball
- Handball: deliberatehandball
- Handball: unnatural positionhandball
- Handball: arm extended before fallhandball
- Handball: arm above shoulder in jumphandball
- Handball: arm held unnaturally while runninghandball
- Handball: arms raised in wallhandball
- Goal disallowed: scored off the scorer's own hand or armhandball
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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