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Basketball · Official Basketball Rules

Law 42: Team Fouls: Penalty

2 parts · 2 tests · 20 facts · updated 22 October 2026 · markdown

Which fouls are team fouls, how they are counted across intervals and overtime, and the free throws of the team-foul penalty.

42.421Counting Team Fouls

What counts, four per quarter, intervals and overtime.

Test 1What counts and whenTake a test

  1. A team foul is a personal, technical, disruptive, flagrant or disqualifying foul committed by a player.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1 · recall

  2. A team is in the penalty after it has committed 4 team fouls in a quarter.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1 · recall

  3. Team fouls in an interval of play count in the following quarter or overtime.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.2 · applied

  4. All team fouls in each overtime are considered as committed in the 4th quarter.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.3 · recall

  5. Overtime fouls count with the 4th quarter, so Team B stays in the penalty.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.3 · applied

  6. Team fouls are fouls committed by a player; a head coach's technical does not count.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1 · applied

  7. A disqualifying foul by a player is one of the five kinds that count.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1 · recall

  8. After 4 team fouls in a quarter, a team is in the penalty.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1, 42.2.1 · applied

  9. Interval fouls go to the next period; every overtime counts as the 4th quarter.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.2, 42.1.3 · applied

  10. Team fouls are fouls by a player; a substitute's technical on the bench is not one.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1 · applied

42.422The Team-Foul Penalty

Free throws instead of a throw-in, and the team in control.

Test 1Free throws in the penaltyTake a test

  1. In the team-foul penalty, personal fouls on a player not shooting are penalised by 2 free throws.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · recall

  2. The player on whom the foul was committed attempts the free throws.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · recall

  3. A personal foul by the team in control is penalised by a throw-in for the opponents, even in the penalty.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.2 · applied

  4. Being owed the ball counts the same as holding it: no free throws.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.2 · applied

  5. The penalty starts after 4 team fouls; this is the 4th foul, so a throw-in follows.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1, 34.2.1 · applied

  6. The penalty replaces the throw-in for fouls on non-shooters; shooting fouls are penalised as usual.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · applied

  7. Away from the ball still counts: the cutter was not shooting.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · applied

  8. Off the ball, not shooting, in the penalty: 2 free throws for the fouled player.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · applied

  9. A foul by the team in control gives the opponents a throw-in, not free throws.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.2 · applied

  10. Four team fouls already, and A7 was not shooting: two shots for him.

    Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.1 · applied

Sources

FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2026 (v1.1), Article 42 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)

  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.16
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.15
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.2.23
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.32
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.21
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1, 42.2.11
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.2, 42.1.31
  • FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 42.1.1, 34.2.11