Cautions for unsporting behaviour
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
There are different circumstances when a player must be cautioned for unsporting behaviour, including if a player:
Verdicts that turn on it 27
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Yellow card: simulationfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Caution: unsporting behaviour, simulationmisconduct
- Penalty kick + yellow card: stopped a promising attackfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick, no card: promising attack stopped by an attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: stopped a promising attackfoul-sanction
- Handball: deliberate touch after deflectionhandball
- Handball: deliberatehandball
- Goal disallowed: scored off the scorer's own hand or armhandball
- Caution: handling in an attempt to scoremisconduct
- Handball: unnatural positionhandball
- Handball: arm extended before fallhandball
- Handball: arm above shoulder in jumphandball
- Handball: arm held unnaturally while runninghandball
- Handball: arms raised in wallhandball
- Caution: handling to stop a promising attack, unless a penalty follows a non-deliberate handballmisconduct
- Penalty kick + yellow card: denied a goal-scoring opportunity, attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- No misconduct: nothing to cautionmisconduct
- Deliberate trick: indirect free kick, and a caution for whoever initiated itgoalkeeper-offences
- Caution, and an indirect free kick: the deliberate trickmisconduct
- Caution: verbally distracting an opponentmisconduct
- Caution: showing a lack of respect for the gamemisconduct
- Caution: changing places with the goalkeeper at the wrong momentmisconduct
- Play continues, and both players are cautionedplayers
- Caution: playing the ball on the way off the fieldmisconduct
- Caution: unauthorised marks on the field of playmisconduct
Explained in the rules library 10
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 4
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 13
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- Did a player deceive the referee by simulating contact or a foul that did not happen?foul-sanction
- Did the player exaggerate it to make the referee think they were fouled?foul-sanction
- Was there any contact from an opponent?misconduct
- Which of these was it?misconduct
- Did the foul interfere with or stop a promising attack?foul-sanction
- Was the offence an attempt to play the ball, or a challenge for the ball?foul-sanction
- Did the player act with disregard for the danger or consequences to the opponent?foul-sanction
- Did this deny the attacking team an obvious goal-scoring opportunity?foul-sanction
- Did the player exaggerate the contact, or its effect, to invent an offence?misconduct
- Did the player claim a foul, by appealing for one or by going down as though fouled?misconduct
- How did the ball reach the goalkeeper from their team-mate?goalkeeper-offences
- Did a team-mate manoeuvre the ball so it could be headed or chested back?goalkeeper-offences
- Was it blatant, like a shirt pull with no attempt to play the ball?foul-sanction
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