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Law 17: Exceptional Game Interruptions
2 Tests · 20 Fakten · aktualisiert am 25. Oktober 2026 · Markdown
Serious injuries during play and the 3-minute recovery time, external interference, and prolonged interruptions: when a set goes on, when it is replayed, and when the whole match is.
17.171Injury and External Interference
Stopping play for an accident, the recovery time, and replaying rallies after external interference.
Test 1Injury and external interferenceTest machen
The referee must stop the game immediately and permit medical assistance to enter the court.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.1 · Wissen
The rally interrupted for the accident is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.1 · Wissen
In that case the player gets three minutes to recover.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.2 · Wissen
The recovery time is granted no more than once for the same player in the match.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.2 · Wissen
If the player does not recover, the team is declared incomplete.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.2 · Wissen
Any external interference means play is stopped and the rally is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2 · Wissen
A replay is for danger or a real influence on play; a ball arriving at the very end with no effect needs none.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2; Casebook 2024 4.48 · Anwendung
A second ball on court is a danger and an external interference, so the rally is stopped and replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2; Casebook 2024 4.48 · Anwendung
Safety first: play stops, medical help enters, the player is replaced, and the interrupted rally is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.1, 15.7 · Anwendung
The recovery time comes only after both kinds of substitution are ruled out.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.2 · Anwendung
17.172Prolonged Interruptions
Resuming on the same or another court, the 4-hour limit, and what happens to sets, players and sanctions.
Test 1Prolonged interruptionsTest machen
The 1st referee, the organiser and the Control Committee, if there is one, decide the measures.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.1 · Wissen
On the same court the set continues normally from where it stopped.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.1 · Wissen
On another court the interrupted set is cancelled and replayed with the same team members and starting line-ups.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.2 · Wissen
Whether on the same or another court, completed sets keep their scores.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2 · Wissen
Beyond 4 hours in total the whole match is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.3 · Wissen
The replayed set uses the same line-ups except expelled or disqualified players, who are replaced.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.2; Casebook 2024 8.3 · Anwendung
The record of all sanctions is maintained when the set is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.2 · Wissen
Over 4 hours in total, the match is replayed; on the same court a set goes on, and on a new court it is replayed.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2, 17.3.3 · Anwendung
Nothing, then the interrupted set, then the whole match.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2, 17.3.3 · Anwendung
The 1st referee stops play, the organiser or Technical Delegate restores order, and it is written down.
Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2, 17.3; Casebook 2024 4.42 · Anwendung
Quellen
FIVB Official Volleyball Rules 2025-2028, Rule 17 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.24
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.12
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2; Casebook 2024 4.482
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.22
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2, 17.3.32
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.21
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.1.1, 15.71
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.21
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.3.2.2; Casebook 2024 8.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 17.2, 17.3; Casebook 2024 4.421