The Penalty Kick
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
A penalty kick is awarded if a player commits a direct free kick offence inside their penalty area or off the field as part of play as outlined in Laws 12 and 13.
Verdicts that turn on it 12
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Direct free kick to the opponentsball-in-play
- Offence by the opponent: indirect free kick to the goalkeeper's teamgoalkeeper-offences
- Handball: deliberate touch after deflectionhandball
- Handball: deliberatehandball
- 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
- Holding: a direct free kick, or a penalty kick in the offender's own areaoff-the-ball
- The foul is penalised: it came firstoffside
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kick if it was inside the penalty areaplayers
Explained in the rules library 9
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 4
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
- Martinez brought down by two defenders at once, penalty given despite debate over who touched the ball firstArgentina vs Austria
- Mbappé goes down after Mané's sliding tackleFrance vs Senegal
- Modric's missed clearance correctly given as a penaltyEngland vs Croatia
- VAR technical outage casts doubt on Switzerland's penaltyQatar vs Switzerland
Questions that ask it 1
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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