5. Restart of play after fouls and misconduct
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
play is restarted with a free kick on the boundary line nearest to where the offence/interference occurred; for direct free kick offences, a penalty kick is awarded if this is within the offender's penalty area.
Verdicts that turn on it 8
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-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 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
Applied in these incidents 1
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 3
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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