# Law 39: Disqualifying Foul (FIBA Official Basketball Rules)

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Disqualifying fouls by anyone on the team, replacing a head coach, violence and equipment, and the free throws, restarts and fight penalties.

## 39.391 Disqualification and Violence

Who can be disqualified, who replaces a head coach, and acts of violence.

### Test 1: Disqualifying fouls and violence

- A disqualifying foul is any flagrant unsportsmanlike action by players, coaches, substitutes, excluded players or delegation members. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.1.1)
- Players, substitutes, head and assistant coaches, excluded players and delegation members can all receive one. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.1.1)
- Violence must be stopped immediately by the officials and, if necessary, public order officers. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.1-39.2.2)
- Without a listed first assistant, the captain steps in. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.1.2)
- Flagrant aggression on opponents or officials means disqualification; the crew chief reports it to the organising body. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.3)
- They enter on the officials' request, but must intervene at once if spectators come on to commit violence. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.4)
- Areas beyond the floor and its vicinity fall under the organising body and the public order officers. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.5)
- Stop the violence, disqualify, then report to the organising body. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2)
- First a warning to the head coach; repetition brings a technical or disqualifying foul. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.6)
- The listed first assistant takes over the bench. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.1.2)

## 39.392 The Penalty

Dressing room, free throws, restarts, bench members and fights.

### Test 1: Free throws and the restart

- The offender goes to and stays in the team's dressing room for the game, or leaves the building. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.2)
- For a non-contact disqualifying foul, the free throws go to any opponent designated by the head coach. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.3)
- For a contact disqualifying foul, the player who was fouled takes the free throws. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.3)
- Even with no contact, the penalty is 2 free throws. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- The throw-in is from the throw-in line in the team's frontcourt, opposite the scorer's table. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.3)
- The disqualification of a head coach gives 2 free throws. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- A missed shot gives 2 or 3 free throws by its value. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- Charged, off to the dressing room, 2 free throws, then the frontcourt throw-in. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3)
- Off to the dressing room, a technical on the head coach, and two shots for the opponents. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.2, 39.3.4)
- B's substitute counts as a technical on the coach, worth two shots. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)

### Test 2: Bench members and fights

- A disqualification of an assistant, substitute, excluded player or delegation member is charged against the head coach as a technical. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- For each such disqualifying foul of a first assistant, substitute or excluded player: 2 free throws. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- All disqualifying fouls of fighting assistants, substitutes and excluded players are charged against each offender. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- Disqualifying fouls of accompanying delegation members in a fight are charged against the head coach. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- All free-throw penalties are executed unless there are equal penalties on the opponents to cancel. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- A disqualifying foul is charged against the offender. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.1)
- Any bench member's disqualification is worth two shots to the opponents. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- Each fighting substitute is disqualified and charged; each disqualification brings 2 free throws. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- The delegation member does not carry the foul; his head coach does. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.3.4)
- A first offence costs the head coach a warning, nothing more yet. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 39.2.6)

Sources: FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2026 (v1.1), Article 39 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)

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