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LAWS OF THE GAME UPDATE SUMMER 2017

6/9/2017

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LAW 1 – THE FIELD OF PLAY
  • Artificial turf may be used for the lines on a grass field if not dangerous
LAW 3 – THE PLAYERS
  • National FAs can allow a maximum of five substitutions (except at the top level)
  • National FAs can now allow return substitutions in youth, veterans and disability football
  • Clearer wording for the substitution procedure
  • A substitution made at half-time without informing referee is not a caution (YC) offence
  • Changing the goalkeeper at half-time without informing the referee is not a caution (YC)
  • Player who enters the field of play without the referee’s permission (if it is required) and interferes is punished with a direct free kick (FK)
  • Team scoring a goal with an extra person on the field is punished with a direct FK
LAW 4 – THE PLAYERS’ EQUIPMENT
  • Goalkeeper caps are not included in the list of restrictions on head covers
  • Players are not permitted to wear/use any electronic or communication equipment, except electronic performance and tracking systems/EPTS); technical staff may only use communication equipment for safety/welfare issues
  • All EPTS equipment must bear a minimum safety standard mark
LAW 5 – THE REFEREE
  • Important statement that decisions made by match officials must always be respected
  • National FAs can allow temporary dismissals (sin bins) for some/all cautions (YC) in youth, veterans, disability and grassroots football (Guidelines for both systems will be published)
  • A medical official guilty of a dismissible offence may stay/treat players if no other medical person is available for the team
LAW 7 – THE DURATION OF THE MATCH
  • A short drinks break is permitted at half-time of extra time
LAW 8 – THE START AND RESTART OF PLAY
  • Kicker can stand in the opponents’ half at the kick-off
LAW 10 – DETERMINING THE OUTCOME OF A MATCH
  • Extra time must be two equal periods, maximum 15 minutes each
Kicks from the penalty mark (KFPM)
  • Corrected wording for goalkeeper who is unable to continue
  • Excluded player may replace a goalkeeper even if team has used all its permitted substitutes
  • Kicker may not play the ball a second time
  • A goalkeeper who offends and the penalty has to be retaken must be cautioned (YC)
  • If the kicker offends the kick is forfeited (recorded as ‘missed’)
  • If the goalkeeper and kicker offend at the same time:
    • retake and two cautions (YCs) if no goal is scored
    • if a goal is scored the kicker is cautioned (YC) and kick recorded as ‘missed’
LAW 11 – OFFSIDE
  • An offside player can be penalised if the ball rebounds/deflects off a match official
  • Addition of ‘attempts to’ to the definition of a ‘save’
  • Offside guidance:
    • player in offside position who impedes an opponent must be penalised
    • a player in offside position who is fouled before committing an offside offence – foul penalised
    • player in offside position who is fouled when already committing an offside offence – offside penalised
LAW 12 – FOULS AND MISCONDUCT
  • Verbal offences are punished with an indirect FK
  • If an advantage is played for a sending-off (RC) and the player commits another offence, that offence is penalised
  • A player ‘stopping a promising attack’ in the penalty area is not cautioned (YC) if the offence was an attempt to play the ball
  • Addition to list of cautions (YCs) for a ‘denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity’ (DOGSO) offence in the penalty area which was an attempt to play the ball
  • Caution (YC) for goal celebration which causes safety/ security issue
  • If player moves diagonally to pass the last defender/goalkeeper this can still be a DOGSO
  • Clearer DOGSO wording for a penalty area offence which is an attempt to play the ball
  • Entering the field of play without permission and stopping a goal or DOGSO is a sendingoff
  • Off-field offence by/against a player involving opposing player/substitute/team official (or against a match official) is penalised by FK on the boundary line if the ball is in play
  • Direct FK for throwing or kicking ball/object onto the field to interfere with play/someone
  • Direct FK on boundary line for throwing or kicking ball/object at someone off the field
LAW 13 – FREE KICKS
  • Attacker in or entering the penalty area before a defensive FK has left the area cannot
play or challenge for the ball until it has been touched by another player
LAW 14 – THE PENALTY KICK
  • Kicker must be clearly identified
  • If the goalkeeper and kicker offend at the same time:
    • retake and two cautions (YCs) if no goal is scored
    • if a goal is scored the kicker is cautioned (YC) and kick recorded as ‘missed’ (see Law 10)
  • Goal can be awarded after outside interference if the ball still goes in the goal
LAW 16 – THE GOAL KICK
  • Attacker entering the penalty area cannot play or challenge for the ball until it is touched by another player
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