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:
Verdicts that turn on it 22
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Sending-off: offensive, insulting or abusive language or actionmisconduct
- Direct free kick + red card: denied a goal-scoring opportunityfoul-sanction
- Indirect free kick to the opponentsfree-kick
- Indirect free kick to the opposing teamgoalkeeper-offences
- Indirect free kick: handled again before anyone else touched itgoalkeeper-offences
- 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
- Caution: dissent by word or actionmisconduct
- Penalty kick + red card: serious foul playfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + red card: serious foul playfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Red card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- Not permitted, and Law 12 is whyequipment
- Sending-off: entering the video operation roommisconduct
- Sending-offteam-officials
Explained in the rules library 7
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 5
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
- Bosnia's defender correctly sent off for a DOGSO foul outside the boxSwitzerland vs Bosnia
- Penalty downgraded to a red card after VAR finds the foul was outside the boxQatar vs Canada
- Montes sent off for late challenge denying a clear chanceMexico vs South Africa
- Ngoy sent off after backpass error gifts Taremi a clear run at goalBelgium vs Iran
- Sithole sent off for dragging down Gutiérrez: DOGSO outside the boxMexico vs South Africa
Questions that ask it 8
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- What kind of incident are you checking?misconduct
- Was the language or the action offensive, insulting or abusive?misconduct
- Which of these was it?misconduct
- handoff_dogsomisconduct
- Did this deny the attacking team an obvious goal-scoring opportunity?foul-sanction
- handoff_handball_outsidegoalkeeper-offences
- Was it a deliberate strike on the head or face with the hand or arm?foul-sanction
- handoff_off_ballmisconduct
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