Denying a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (DOGSO)
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off.
Verdicts that turn on it 8
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + yellow card: denied a goal-scoring opportunity, attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + red card: denied a goal-scoring opportunity, no attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- On the nearest boundary line, and a penalty if that is inside their own areaoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick where the object struck, or would haveoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty 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 7
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
- Konsa's challenge on AduEngland vs Ghana
- Le Normand's push on MikautadzeAtlético Madrid vs Villarreal
- Ngoy's pull on TaremiBelgium vs Iran
- Sithole's pull on GutiérrezMexico vs South Africa
- Canada's goalkeeper's flying challengeSwitzerland vs Canada
Questions that ask it 4
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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