2. Indirect free kick
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
An indirect free kick is awarded if a goalkeeper, inside their penalty area, commits any of the following offences:
Verdicts that turn on it 5
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Indirect free kick to the opposing teamgoalkeeper-offences
- Indirect free kick: handled again before anyone else touched itgoalkeeper-offences
- No offence: another player had touched the ballgoalkeeper-offences
- No offence: the restriction does not apply to this passgoalkeeper-offences
- No offence: the goalkeeper had tried to play it awaygoalkeeper-offences
Explained in the rules library 3
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Questions that ask it 7
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- What happened involving the goalkeeper?goalkeeper-offences
- Was the goalkeeper inside their own penalty area when they handled it?goalkeeper-offences
- Was the goalkeeper inside their own penalty area when they handled it?goalkeeper-offences
- Had the ball touched another player before the goalkeeper handled it again?goalkeeper-offences
- How did the ball reach the goalkeeper from their team-mate?goalkeeper-offences
- Had the goalkeeper clearly kicked, or tried to kick, the ball away first?goalkeeper-offences
- Did a team-mate manoeuvre the ball so it could be headed or chested back?goalkeeper-offences
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