Law 7: Structure of Play

Before the match the 1st referee tosses to settle who serves first and which side each team takes in the first set.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1 · Wissen

The toss is made in front of both team captains.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1.1 · Wissen

The winner takes either the right to serve or receive, or the side; the loser gets the remaining choice.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1.2 · Wissen

If a deciding set has to be played, a new toss is held for it.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1 · Wissen

With a court previously at their exclusive disposal they get 6 minutes together; without one, 10.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.2.1 · Wissen

At the top level teams are entitled to ten minutes together at the net.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.2.1 · Wissen

Consecutive warm-ups last 3 or 5 minutes per team, and the team with the first service takes the net first.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.2.2, 7.2.3 · Anwendung

The winner takes one choice, here the side, and the loser takes the other, serve or receive; nobody else chooses.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1.2 · Anwendung

The toss decides the first service, which also decides who warms up first if the warm-ups are separate.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.1, 7.2 · Wissen

Separate warm-ups are 3 or 5 minutes; joint ones 6 minutes, or 10 at FIVB events.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.2 · Wissen

There must always be six players per team in play.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.1 · Wissen

The starting line-up gives the rotational order of the players, which must be kept throughout the set.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.1 · Wissen

Everyone outside the starting line-up, except the Liberos, is a substitute for that set.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.3 · Wissen

After delivery no change is authorised other than a regular substitution.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.4 · Wissen

A discrepancy found before the set is put right according to the sheet, without any sanction.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5.1 · Anwendung

The coach may keep a non-recorded player only through a regular substitution, shown by hand signal and recorded.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5.3 · Anwendung

The team reverts to the correct positions, loses the points it scored since the fault, and the opponents keep theirs plus a point and service.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5.3 · Anwendung

Nos. 14 and 3 stand in each other's places; found before the set, the positions are simply corrected to the sheet.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5.1 · Anwendung

The coach decides; keeping the player means a formal substitution at 0-0, recorded like any other.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5.2, 7.3.5.3; Casebook 2024 4.18 · Anwendung

Before the set there is no sanction; later a point and service plus cancelled points; an unregistered player costs the points or sets gained with him.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.3.5 · Anwendung

At the service hit each team stands within its own court; only the server is outside.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4 · Wissen

The receiving team must stand in rotational order; the serving team is free to take any position.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4 · Wissen

The current rules free the serving team to occupy any position at the service hit.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4 · Wissen

Along the net the positions run 4, 3, 2 from left to right.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.1.1 · Wissen

Back-centre is number 6; the corners behind are 5 on the left and 1 on the right.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.1.2 · Wissen

Once the server has hit the ball, players may take up any position on their court and in the free zone.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.4 · Wissen

The Casebook treats this only as a matter of penetration during the rally, not as a positional fault at the hit.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4; Casebook 2024 2.2 · Anwendung

Position 6 is the back-centre spot, B; A is position 4, C position 2 and D position 1.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.1 · Anwendung

The front row is numbered 4, 3, 2 from left to right.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.1.1 · Wissen

The back row is numbered 5, 6, 1 from left to right.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.1.2 · Wissen

Positions are judged by the feet on the ground; the last floor contact counts.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.3 · Wissen

The back-row player needs at least part of one foot level with or further from the centre line than the front foot of the front-row player.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.3.1 · Wissen

Each right (or left) player must have part of a foot level with or nearer that side line than the others in the row.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.3.2 · Wissen

A player in the air keeps the position of the last contact with the floor, so the overlap fault stands.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.3, 7.5; Casebook 2024 2.1 · Anwendung

The fault is judged at the moment the server hits the ball.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.5.1 · Wissen

A serving fault at the hit is counted before a positional fault.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.5.2 · Anwendung

When the service only becomes faulty after the hit, the positional fault is the one counted.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.5.3 · Anwendung

Only in B does a foot of No. 6 reach behind No. 3's front foot; in the others both feet are nearer the net.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.4.3.1 · Anwendung

The fault is fixed at the hit; the sanction is a point and service to the opponents, and the positions are put right.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.5.4 · Anwendung

A fault at the hit beats a positional fault, which in turn beats a service that only goes wrong later.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.5.2, 7.5.3 · Anwendung

A team rotates when it gains the right to serve after receiving.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.6.2 · Wissen

Players move one position clockwise.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.6.2 · Wissen

Position 2 goes to 1 to serve, 1 goes to 6, and so on round the court.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.6.2 · Wissen

A rotational fault is a service made out of the rotational order.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1 · Wissen

The scorer stops play by sounding the buzzer.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1.1 · Wissen

Only a single point is awarded, regardless of how the rally ended.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1.1 · Anwendung

Without the exact moment no points are cancelled; a point and service to the opponents is the only sanction.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.2 · Anwendung

On rotating, the player in position 2, No. 13, moves to position 1 and serves.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.6.2 · Anwendung

Rotation is clockwise: 2 to 1 to serve, then 6, 5, 4, 3 and back to 2.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.6.2 · Wissen

The buzzer, point and service and rectification come in that order; the scorer then cancels the points scored since the fault.

Quelle: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1, 7.7.2 · Anwendung