# Law 15: Ruck

Rugby · Law 15: Ruck · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/de/rugby/laws/law-15-ruck/)

How a ruck forms, offside at a ruck, joining and playing in it, and how it ends.

## 15.151 Forming a Ruck and Offside

What a ruck is, where it can happen, body position, and the offside lines.

### Test 1: Forming a ruck and offside

- The purpose of a ruck is to allow players to compete for the ball on the ground. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15, Principle)
- A ruck can take place only in the field of play. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.1)
- A ruck forms when at least one player from each team are in contact, on their feet and over the ball on the ground. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.2)
- Heads and shoulders no lower than the hips. Sanction: free-kick. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.3)
- Low bodies at a ruck cost a free-kick. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.3)
- Each team's offside line runs parallel to the try line through the hindmost point of any ruck participant. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.4)
- If the hindmost point is on or behind the try line, the offside line is the try line. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.4)
- Both teams are represented, upright and bound: that is a ruck. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.2)
- Ball down, a player over it, an opponent meets them. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.2)
- Ball, then the last body, then the line through it. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.4)

## 15.152 Joining and Playing in a Ruck

Joining from behind, binding, handling, winning the ball and ruck offences.

### Test 1: Joining and playing in a ruck

- An arriving player must be on their feet and join from behind their offside line. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.5)
- The bind must precede or be simultaneous with contact with any other part of the body. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.7)
- Players must join the ruck or retire behind their offside line immediately. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.8)
- Only a player who got hands on the ball before the ruck formed and stays on their feet may handle it. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.11)
- Possession may be won by rucking or by pushing the opposing team off the ball. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.10)
- Kicking, or trying to kick, the ball out of a ruck is a penalty. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.16e)
- Returning the ball into the ruck is sanctioned by a free-kick. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.16f)
- A player may join alongside but not in front of the hindmost player, and only from behind the offside line. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.5-6)
- The bind must come before or with any other contact. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.5-7)
- Former ruck players may rejoin, but only from an onside position. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.9)

## 15.153 Ending a Ruck

"Use it", protecting the scrum-half, when a ruck ends and an unplayable ball.

### Test 1: Ending a ruck

- When the ball has been clearly won and is available, the referee calls "use it". (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.17)
- If the ball is not played away within five seconds of "use it": scrum. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.17)
- A player who is or was part of the ruck may not play an opponent near it (within 1 m) playing the ball away. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.18)
- The ruck ends when the ball leaves it, the player playing it away lifts it, or it is on or over the try line. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.19)
- Reaching the try line is one of the ways it finishes. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.19)
- If the ball will probably not emerge, the referee awards a scrum to the side last moving forward. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.20)
- The ruck ends when the player playing the ball away has lifted it from the ground. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.19)
- The call starts a five-second window. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.17)
- Five seconds after the call, at most. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.17-19)
- A ruck that cannot produce the ball ends in a scrum. (Quelle: World Rugby Laws 2026, Law 15.20)

Quellen: World Rugby Laws of the Game, Rugby Union 2026, Law 15 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the law book, not reproduced)

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