# Law 21: Hockey5s (FIH Rules of Hockey)

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The short format: the court with boundary-boards, five-a-side teams, two halves, the 4-metre distance, scoring from the attacking half and the challenge.

## 21.211 The Court, Teams and Time

Boards, quarter-lines, five players, the squad, halves and substitutions.

### Test 1: Hockey5s: the court, the teams and time

- Boundary-boards mark the side-lines and back-lines but not the goal-lines, placed against the outside of the lines. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 1.4)
- Boundary-boards ideally have a height of 10 to 25 cm; Hockey5s may also be played with other boards or none. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 1.4)
- A maximum of five players from each team take part at any time, and each team has a goalkeeper. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rules 2.1, 2.2)
- Each team may have four court substitutes and one substitute goalkeeper: a squad of 10. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 2.3)
- A match is two halves of 10 minutes with a 2-minute interval; Regulations may set 12 or 15 minutes. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 5.1)
- Players leave or enter between the centre-line and the quarter-line on their own bench side, within touching distance of each other. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 2.5)
- Two quarter-lines are marked halfway between the centre-line and the back-lines. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 1.5)
- A goal is scored only when the ball is played by an attacker within their attacking half; Hockey5s has no circles. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 8.1)
- From one end: back-line, quarter-line, centre-line, quarter-line, back-line again. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rules 1.4, 1.5)
- The captain also receives a personal penalty; play re-starts with a challenge against the team responsible. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 2.1)

## 21.212 Restarts, Scoring and the Challenge

Free hits at 4 m, the ball out, high hits, the goalkeeper's half and the challenge.

### Test 1: Hockey5s: restarts, scoring and the challenge

- All players other than the taker must be at least 4 metres from the ball. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 13.2)
- Play re-starts not more than one metre from where the ball crossed the side-line. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 7.3)
- It re-starts on the centre-line in line with where it crossed, like a corner in the other formats. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 7.4 (b))
- A challenge is awarded for offences such as a defender's intentional offence in their half against a player with the ball. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 12.3)
- Such a hit must cross the goal-line no higher than 460 mm; inside the quarter-line area high hits are allowed unless dangerous. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 8.2)
- A goalkeeper must not take part outside the half they are defending. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 10.1)
- In Hockey5s, if the ball strikes an umpire, an unauthorised person or a loose object, play continues. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 11.7)
- The challenge taker may play the ball but may not shoot until it has travelled at least 4 metres. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 13.3)
- The goalkeeper may move once the attacker has played the ball. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 13.3)
- The ball must travel 4 m before the taker shoots, unless another player has touched it. (Source: FIH Rules of Hockey5s 2024, Rule 13.2)

Sources: FIH Rules of Hockey5s, in force from 1 May 2024, with the Rules of Hockey for anything they do not cover (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)

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