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Law 12: Service
3 tests · 30 datos · actualizado el 24 de octubre de 2026 · markdown
Who serves first in each set and the service order, authorisation and execution of the service, the 8-second limit, screening, serving faults, and how they rank against positional faults.
12.121Who Serves and When
The first service of each set, the service order after each rally, and the 1st referee's authorisation.
Test 1Who serves and whenHacer un test
The service is made by the back-right player standing in the service zone.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12 · recuerdo
Both the first set and the deciding set start with the team chosen by the toss.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.1.1 · recuerdo
The first service alternates: each set begins with the team that did not serve first in the set before.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.1.2 · recuerdo
When the serving team wins the rally, the player who served before serves again.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.2.2.1 · recuerdo
The team rotates before serving, and the player moving from front-right to back-right serves.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.2.2.2 · recuerdo
The correct player may serve as long as the service is made within 8 seconds of the original whistle.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.4; Casebook 2024 3.29 · aplicación
Team B served first in set 2, so set 3 starts with the other team, A; only the 5th set needs a new toss.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.1.2 · aplicación
Winning the right to serve, the team rotates first, and the new back-right player serves.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.2.2.2 · recuerdo
The scorer waits for the service to be completed before signalling, and the opponents score and serve.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1, 12.6.1.1; Casebook 2024 3.28 · aplicación
12.122Executing the Service and Screening
How the ball is tossed and hit, where the server stands, the time limit, and the ban on screening.
Test 1Executing the service and screeningHacer un test
The server hits the ball with one hand or any part of the arm after tossing or releasing it.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.1 · recuerdo
Only one toss or release is allowed, though dribbling or moving the ball in the hands is permitted.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.2 · recuerdo
The server may not touch the court, end line included, or the floor outside the service zone; after the hit he may land anywhere.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.3 · recuerdo
The ball must be hit within eight seconds of the whistle for service.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.4 · recuerdo
A service executed before the whistle is cancelled and taken again.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.5 · recuerdo
Jump or standing, the service must be hit with one hand or arm; two hands is a fault.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.1, 12.6.1.2; Casebook 2024 3.31 · aplicación
The 2025-2028 text forbids any player of the serving team from raising hands above the head during the service.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.3 · recuerdo
B is inside the service zone; A is on the end line, C is outside the extended side line and D is in the court.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 1.4.2, 12.4.3 · aplicación
Whistle, one toss, the hit within eight seconds, and only then may the server step into the court.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.3, 12.4 · recuerdo
The 1st referee may advise the team first; a service over a screen is a service fault.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.3, 12.6.2.3 · aplicación
12.123Service Faults
Serving faults, faults after the hit, screens, and which fault counts when the opponents are out of position.
Test 1Service faultsHacer un test
Violating the service order or not executing the service properly leads to a change of service regardless.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.1 · recuerdo
A correctly hit service becomes a fault if it touches a player of the serving team.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.2.1 · recuerdo
The 1st referee whistles immediately; the ball is out of play from that moment.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.2.1; Casebook 2024 3.30 · aplicación
It is a screen only if both the service hit and the flight path are hidden until the ball reaches the net.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.2 · recuerdo
Should either the hit or the flight be visible to the receiving team, it is not a screen.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.2 · aplicación
A fault at the moment of the service hit is sanctioned ahead of the opponents' positional fault.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.7.1 · aplicación
When the service only becomes faulty after a correct hit, the positional fault happened first and is sanctioned.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.7.2 · aplicación
Standing grouped so that the hit and flight are hidden is a collective screen, and a service over it is a fault.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5, 12.6.2.3 · aplicación
An early service comes before the hit, a foot fault at the hit, and the other two only after it.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4, 12.6 · aplicación
Faults after a correct hit come later than a positional fault, which is therefore the one counted.
Fuente: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.7.2 · aplicación
Fuentes
FIVB Official Volleyball Rules 2025-2028, Rule 12 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.1.22
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.2.2.22
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.22
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.7.22
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 121
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.1.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.2.2.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.4; Casebook 2024 3.291
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 7.7.1, 12.6.1.1; Casebook 2024 3.281
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.21
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.41
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.51
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4.1, 12.6.1.2; Casebook 2024 3.311
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 1.4.2, 12.4.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.3, 12.41
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5.3, 12.6.2.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.2.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.6.2.1; Casebook 2024 3.301
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.7.11
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.5, 12.6.2.31
- FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 12.4, 12.61