Cautionable offences
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
A player is cautioned if guilty of:
Verdicts that turn on it 17
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Caution: dissent by word or actionmisconduct
- Caution: entering, re-entering or deliberately leaving the fieldmisconduct
- Caution: persistent offencesmisconduct
- No misconduct: neither dissent nor abusemisconduct
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Caution: delaying the restart of playfree-kick
- Caution: delaying the restart of playgoal-kick-corner
- Caution: delaying the restart of playmisconduct
- Caution for delaying the restartmisconduct
- Caution: delaying the restart of playthrow-in
- The corner kick is retaken, and the caution is the part that is not optionalgoal-kick-corner
- Caution: failing to respect the required distancemisconduct
- Caution: entering the referee review areamisconduct
- Cautionteam-officials
- Caution: excessive use of the review signalmisconduct
Explained in the rules library 9
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Questions that ask it 8
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- What kind of incident are you checking?misconduct
- Did the player show dissent towards a match official, by word or by action?misconduct
- Which of these was it?misconduct
- Did a player deceive the referee by simulating contact or a foul that did not happen?foul-sanction
- Was it blatant, like a shirt pull with no attempt to play the ball?foul-sanction
- Was there any contact from an opponent?misconduct
- Which restart was delayed, and by whom?misconduct
- Did they then interfere with play and deny a goal or an obvious chance?misconduct
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