The document discusses several key rules of football, including: 1) The offside rule, which states that an attacking player must be level or behind the last defender when the ball is passed forward. 2) The use of yellow and red cards to book players for fouls. A second yellow results in a red card and ejection from the game. 3) Penalties being awarded for fouls within the penalty area that deny a clear goalscoring opportunity. 4) Teams having 11 players on the field plus substitutes, and substitutions only being allowed when signaled by the referee.

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Assignment One – Product and Theory
(46103027)
The Basic Rules of Football

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What is the Offside Rule?
• *A player is in an offside position if:
• he is nearer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and the
second-last opponent
*Offside Rule from The FA –
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-
governance/laws/football-11-11/law-
11---offside.aspx
• Basically, to be in an offside position the attacking player
will be ahead of the last defender when the ball is passed
from their team-mate.
• To be onside, the attacking player must be in line or
behind the defender(s) when the ball is passed.

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What is the Offside Rule?
• Here is an example of the play being onside
The attacking player is in line with
(or ahead) the last defender(s), as
the ball is passed from their team-
mate.
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What is the Offside Rule?
• Here is an example of the play being offside
Here the attacking player is behind
the last defender(s) as the ball is
being passed from their team-
mate.
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What is the Offside Rule?
• In some cases, these are not the only examples of the
ball being onside or offside
• For example, if the ball is being passed back to their team-mate,
(who is behind them) than this can not be classed as being offside.
Therefore it is onside. The player that is receiving the ball can even
be ahead of the last defender(s), as the ball is ahead of play.

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What is the Offside Rule?
• Another example of play being onside is from a throw in. If
a player throws the ball to their team-mate who may
ahead of the last defender(s) will not be offside. This is
because there is no offence from a throw in.
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What is the Offside Rule?
• One of the defenders is behind the goal line, and the attacking
player is behind the two defenders. This is offside, as the defender
who is behind the goal line is technically out of play.
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8. Bookings
• In football, you are able to tackle another member of the
opposition.
• However, your tackle must be clean. Meaning that you
must only touch and/or have contact with the ball. And not
the player.
• The referee can give a player a warning, if they feel that
the tackle was not worthy of a booking but the player
should be aware that how they tackled that player was
incorrect.

9. Bookings
• If a tackle has been worthy of a form of punishment, then
there are two types of coloured cards to warn the player:
Yellow Red
• One yellow card means that the referee is cautioning you.
The behaviour is not acceptance and the offence was
worthy of being booked.

10. Bookings
• Once a player has been booked with a yellow card, they
must be on their best behaviour for the remainder of the
game.
• Two yellow cards per player in one game = a red card.
+ =
• A red card is given, when the player has ignored the
referee’s warnings and/or they have acted aggressively or
violent to another player/official/third party.

11. Bookings
• Finally, if a player’s actions were malicious or seriously
aggressive. The referee can and will issue a straight red
card to a player.
• If this happens the player must leave the pitch
immediately, and the team will be reduced to ten men.
• A substitute cannot replace the player that has been sent
off.

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What is a Penalty?
• A penalty is decided by the referee, if a foul has been
committed on an attacker by the defender in the defences’
18 yard box. The 18 yard box is the only area of the pitch
where the goalkeeper is allowed to handle the ball.
• A foul is where the defender has tackled the player in the
box, and caused them to miss a goal scoring opportunity.

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What is a Penalty?
• A penalty is a direct kick towards the goal in the box. The
aim from a penalty is to score a goal.
• The penalty spot in 10 yards from the goal line.
• Only the penalty taker, referee and goalkeeper can be in
the box until the ball has been struck by the taker.

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What is a Free Kick?
• A free kick is where a player has fouled a player from the
opposition on the pitch.
• The only area of the pitch where a free kick would not be
given is in the penalty area, as this would incur a penalty.
• The taker of the free kick can take a direct or indirect free
kick.
• Direct: the taker can shoot towards the opposition’s goal, and a
goal will be awarded.
• Indirect: the taker passes the ball to another member of their
team, and for them to have a goal scoring opportunity.

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What is a Free Kick?
• The opposition usually create a ‘wall’ to protect their goal.
• The ‘wall’ must be 10 yards away from the ball, and can
only move forward once the ball is kicked.
• If one or more of the opposition moves forward before the
free kick is taken, the referee can stop the play and
indicate that the free kick is to be retaken.

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How many players are on one team?
• Each team must have no more than eleven outfield
players during every game, including a goalkeeper.
• Each team is allowed to have from three to seven
substitutes on the ‘sub bench’.
• Only up to three substitutes are allowed to play, and they
have to replace a player that is already on the pitch.

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How many players are on one team?
• The referee must stop the play in order for the
substitution(s) to be made.
• A match official(s) must signal which the player is coming
off, and what player is coming on the pitch by announcing
their shirt numbers on an electronic board.

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How to take a valid penalty kick
• If a foul has been committed on an attacking player in the
opposition’s area or box then a penalty is given.
• The attacking player/team then must place the ball on the
penalty spot in the box, in order for it to be a valid penalty.

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How to take a valid penalty kick
• Only three people are allowed in the box at the time of the
penalty.
• They are:
• The chosen penalty taker/kicker
• Goalkeeper
• Referee

20. How to take a valid penalty kick
• Kicker must wait for referee’s whistle before taking the kick
• The ball must be kicked forward
• The ball cannot be touched by anyone other than the
kicker
• Once it is kicked, the ball is in play so the other players
may then be allowed in the box

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