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 a practice scenario 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 5
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 10
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- What is the offence being claimed as a penalty?foul-sanction
- handoff_penalty_handballfoul-sanction
- What is being questioned about the penalty kick?law-14-penalty
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