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 31
Walk a practice scenario 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 11
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
- Sulc's handballCzechia vs South Africa
- Altimira's kick into BatrakovSporting CP vs Galatasaray
- Foden's red cardManchester United vs Manchester City
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
- What did the offence cost the opponents?foul-sanction
- handoff_handball_outsidegoalkeeper-offences
- Was it a bite or a spit, or a hand or arm to the head or face?foul-sanction
- handoff_off_ballmisconduct
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