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 player:
Verdicts that turn on it 11
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Yellow card: simulationfoul-sanction
- Offence by the opponent: indirect free kick to the goalkeeper's teamgoalkeeper-offences
- Deliberate trick: indirect free kick, and a caution for whoever initiated itgoalkeeper-offences
- Caution: unsporting behaviour, simulationmisconduct
- No offence: the ball was not under the goalkeeper's controlgoalkeeper-offences
- Indirect free kick, alwaysoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Not offside: this one is punished under Law 12offside
- Caution, and an indirect free kick: the deliberate trickmisconduct
Explained in the rules library 10
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 2
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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