2. Offences and sanctions
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
If, before the ball is in play, one of the following occurs:
Verdicts that turn on it 14
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Attacking encroachment not penalised: threshold not metlaw-14-penalty
- Retake: players of both teams offendedlaw-14-penalty
- Defending encroachment not penalised: threshold not metlaw-14-penalty
- Goal cancelled, penalty retaken: attacking offence on a scored kicklaw-14-penalty
- Indirect free kick to the defending team: attacking offence on a failed kicklaw-14-penalty
- Retake: defending offence on a kick that did not go inlaw-14-penalty
- Goal stands: defending offence does not cancel a scored penaltylaw-14-penalty
- Goal stands: goalkeeper offence does not cancel a scored penaltylaw-14-penalty
- Retake: the goalkeeper's offence clearly impacted the kickerlaw-14-penalty
- No retake: the miss was not caused by the goalkeeper's offencelaw-14-penalty
- Retake: the goalkeeper offended and saved the kicklaw-14-penalty
- Indirect free kick to the defending team: both feet, and the ball did not enter the goallaw-14-penalty
- Lifting the ball with the feet is a legal free kickfree-kick
- Retake: both feet, and the ball entered the goallaw-14-penalty
Explained in the rules library 3
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 1
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Changed for 2026/27 1
What this provision replaced, and when it took effect.
Questions that ask it 7
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- What is being questioned about the penalty kick?law-14-penalty
- Did the encroaching attacker impact the goalkeeper, or go on to play the ball?law-14-penalty
- Did the encroaching defender impact the kicker, or go on to play the ball?law-14-penalty
- Did the ball enter the goal?law-14-penalty
- What happened to the kick?law-14-penalty
- Did the goalkeeper's offence clearly impact the kicker?law-14-penalty
- What was wrong with the kick itself?law-14-penalty
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