Law 12: Fouls and MisconductCaution·Page 125, 2026/27 edition

Caution

The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.

Caution offences include (but are not limited to):
· delaying the restart of play by their team
IFAB Laws of the Game 2026/27, page 125 · clause law-12-e1efe41e

Verdicts that turn on it 2

Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.

Cautionteam-officials
Sending-offteam-officials

Explained in the rules library 1

The plain-language pages that build on this provision.

Time Wasting & Delaying Restarts

Applied in these incidents 1

Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.

Barbarez held onto the ball and then threw it at a United States player, and Law 12 prints both as sending-offsUnited States vs Bosnia and Herzegovina

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