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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/23/2025Larry of Danville, CA United States asks...A follow up on your response to award an IDFK where a defender in the goal area chests a high ball, then plays it with his foot, then the GK picks it up. My question is, what if it was your opinion that the GK took the ball away from the defender, as...
Read The Full Q & A Law 8 - The Start and Restart of Play 5/23/2025Greg Newberg of Ventura, CA USA asks...This may seem like a nitpicky question, but I referee with a group who love to spend time digging into the minutiae of the LOTG, and who strive to correctly even the nitpicky things. In the not-too-distant past, I would always give a quick tweet of m...
Read The Full Q & A Law 15 - The Throw In 5/22/2025Michael of Ipswich, Brisbane Australia asks...Good afternoon,
This email is requesting RULE CLARIFICATION on a highly debated argument as of recent and I thought, why not message the source directly.
I currently play in the O30’s competition and have not played for approxi...
Read The Full Q & A Mechanics 5/20/2025Peter Cottam of Accrington, Lancashire United Kingdom asks...The Dean Henderson incident at the cup final shouldn't there have been a free kick anyway for handball?...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 5/17/2025Cliff of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Canada asks...Two players from Team A are in offside positions. A teammate has control of the ball and dribbles it so the ball is closer to the goal line than the two who were offside. If the player with the ball now passes it to either of those players, is an off...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/15/2025A CHALMERS of Nelson, New Zealand asks...Player on blue team plays a high through ball into the box.
Defending green team CB chests the ball down and controls it at their feet inside the 6 yard box.
Green Keeper is calling for it the whole time.
Green CB tak...
Read The Full Q & A High School 5/10/2025Jay LaFountain of Coldwater, MI USA asks...Recently, IFAB introduced impeding with contact. This has led to high school referees talking about impeding with contact as if it's a thing in high school soccer. However, I have looked at the rulebook and it is written like the old IFAB rules, wh...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/2/2025Crebs Crem of Zagreb , Croatia asks...Hi,
My questions is about goalkeeper's handling the ball for the second time after the ball was released into play.
The attacking team crosses the ball into goal area, the goalkeeper slaps the ball outside the penalty area, cha...
Read The Full Q & A Law 3 - The Players 5/1/2025A. Povi of The villages, Fl USA asks...Can we put our #9 in goal to defend a penalty. Then immediatly change their positions back at the restart?
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Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 4/29/2025David of LAKE WORTH, FL United States asks...A player from team A is in an offside position. A pass is played directly to this player from within a group of players from both team A and team B. Neither the ARs or the center referee knows for sure which team played the ball to the player in an...
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