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Law 5: The Referees

2 parts · 10 tests · 100 facts · updated 12 October 2026 · markdown

Law 5 covers the two referees who control a futsal match: the finality and always-respected status of their decisions, the narrow conditions under which a restart decision can no longer be changed, the referee prevailing over the second referee and relieving an official of their duties, the referees liability exemption, their broad powers and duties (ball/equipment checks, outside interference, injury management, advantage, discipline), the mandatory second referee for international matches, the referees compulsory and prohibited equipment, and the conditions and process for video support.

5.51Authority, decisions and liability of the referees

The two referees and their full authority to enforce the Law; which decisions are final and must always be respected; the three events after which a restart decision can no longer be changed, and the missed red/yellow-card signal exception; the referee's decision prevailing over the second referee's, and relieving an official of their duties for interference; and the full list of decisions the referees are not held liable for.

Test 1Two referees and the finality of their decisionsTake a test

  1. Law 5 gives control of the match to two referees, named the referee and the second referee, not a single referee or a three-official team.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §1 (The Authority of the Referees) · recall

  2. The two referees hold full authority to enforce the Laws in connection with the match; nothing in Law 5 subordinates that to the timekeeper or requires joint agreement.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §1 (The Authority of the Referees) · recall

  3. The authority Law 5 grants is scoped to enforcing the Futsal Laws in connection with the match, not to season-long club discipline, general venue safety or commercial matters.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §1 (The Authority of the Referees) · applied

  4. Law 5 makes the referees' decisions on facts connected with play, including whether a goal is scored and the result of the match, final.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  5. Law 5 pairs whether a goal was scored with the result of the match itself as facts the referees decide finally; attendance, line-ups and man-of-the-match honours are outside that scope.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  6. Law 5 requires that the decisions of the referees, and of all other match officials, always be respected; it gives no public right to question, explain or appeal them mid-match.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  7. Law 5 extends the always-respected requirement to all other match officials, not only to the competition delegate, a video review or the two referees on their own.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  8. Whether a goal is scored is one of the facts connected with play that Law 5 makes final, so no post-hoc appeal, coach protest or time-limited challenge changes it under this Law.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  9. Law 5 makes decisions on facts connected with play final and requires them to always be respected, so outside criticism after the match does not reopen or provisionally suspend the call.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  10. Law 5 states the respect duty as its own sentence covering the decisions of the referees and all other match officials generally, not as a restatement limited to the finality clause on facts of play.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

Test 2When a restart decision cannot be changedTake a test

  1. Law 5 does not ban every correction outright; it blocks a change once specific events listed in the Law have occurred, and allows it beforehand.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  2. Law 5 lists play having restarted as one of the events that locks a restart decision in place, so the referees cannot revise it afterwards even with another official's input.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  3. Leaving the pitch and its vicinity after the acoustic signal that confirms the end of a period is one of Law 5's lock conditions, so no exception is made for goal calls or a following grace period.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  4. Law 5 names "the first or second period (including extra time)" when describing this lock condition, so extra time is explicitly folded in rather than left open.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  5. Law 5's lock conditions are: play has restarted, the referees confirmed a period's end and left the pitch's vicinity, or the match has been abandoned; a protest or departing team is not among them.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  6. Law 5 names the match having been abandoned as one of its three lock conditions in its own right, so club agreement, a late-match window or a competition-ordered review does not reopen it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  7. Law 5 lets the referees still discipline the player once they realise, but the restart that would have followed the offence no longer applies because play has already moved on.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  8. Law 5 treats the two consequences separately in this situation: the disciplinary action can still be taken, but the specific restart the offence would have produced no longer applies once play has restarted.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  9. Law 5 uses the case of an assistant referee indicating or communicating a yellow- or red-card offence that the referees do not see or hear until after play restarts.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  10. Law 5's text on this exception does not attach a time limit to the disciplinary action once the referees realise what happened; it only removes the restart that would have gone with it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

Test 3Disagreement between referees, and relieving officials of their dutiesTake a test

  1. Law 5 resolves disagreement between the two referees by giving the referee's decision priority over the second referee's, with no automatic video review or first-signal rule involved.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  2. Law 5 applies the priority rule whenever the two referees disagree, without requiring a team appeal or confirmation from another official.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  3. Law 5 states the priority rule as a general one for whenever there is disagreement between the referee and the second referee, not restricted to cards, goals or a particular period.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  4. Law 5 gives the referee the power to relieve a second referee (or other match official) of their duties for undue interference or improper conduct, arrange for a substitute, and report it to the appropriate authorities.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  5. The power in Law 5 covers the second referee and the other match officials, not just the timekeeper, and it sits with the referee rather than the competition organisers mid-match.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  6. Law 5 names undue interference and improper conduct as the two grounds for relieving another official, not fitness, results, complaints or public disagreement.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

  7. Law 5's process is to relieve the official, arrange for their substitution, and make a report to the appropriate authorities; abandoning the match or making a public announcement is not part of it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  8. Law 5 states the priority-on-disagreement rule and the power to relieve an official for undue interference or improper conduct as two distinct provisions, not a single combined or cancelling-out rule.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  9. Law 5's wording is that the referee "will relieve" the official "and arrange for them to be substituted", making the substitution part of the same required process rather than an optional or competition-driven step.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · applied

  10. Law 5 gives this power to the referee specifically, distinguishing it from the timekeeper, third referee or an external competition delegate.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees) · recall

Test 4What the referees are not liable forTake a test

  1. Law 5 states plainly that referees (and other match officials, where applicable) are not held liable for injury, property damage or other loss arising from decisions taken under the Laws or normal match procedures.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  2. Law 5 extends the same liability exemption to the other match officials where applicable, not only to the referee personally.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  3. Law 5's wording exempts liability for injury suffered by "a player, official or spectator" without singling out any one of the three for different treatment.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  4. Law 5's exemption does not depend on whether the decision later turns out correct or on a missed protest; it simply removes liability for loss due to a decision taken under the Laws or normal match procedures.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  5. Law 5's list of covered decisions includes whether pitch or weather conditions allow a match to take place; registration, ticketing and sponsorship matters sit outside the Law entirely.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  6. By covering abandonment regardless of its cause, Law 5 does not restrict the exemption to a specific reason such as weather, and does not carve out crowd-related abandonments as an exception.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  7. Law 5 explicitly lists a decision on the suitability of the accessories, the ball and the equipment used during a match among the decisions the exemption covers, with no time limit or second-official confirmation required.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  8. Law 5's opening liability sentence exempts "any damage to property of any kind", without restricting it to match equipment or to a particular cause of the damage.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  9. Law 5's list of possible claimants explicitly includes a company alongside an individual, a club, an association or other body.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  10. Law 5 exempts the match officials for loss arising from a decision taken under the Laws and equally for the ordinary procedures of staging, playing and controlling a match, so both grounds are covered together.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

Test 5Liability for further match-control decisionsTake a test

  1. The listed decision concerns stopping or not stopping a match because of spectator interference or a problem in the spectator areas, not commercial, ceremonial or travel matters.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  2. Law 5 lists both a decision to stop or not stop play so an injured player can be removed for treatment, and a decision to require that removal, among the exempted decisions.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  3. Law 5 lists a decision to allow or not allow a player to wear certain apparel or equipment among the covered decisions, without singling out goalkeepers or a team-sheet deadline.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  4. Law 5's example extends to security officers, photographers and other media representatives, not to spectators, sponsor guests or observing youth players.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  5. Law 5 qualifies this item with "where they have the authority", so the exemption covers the decision only in cases where making it is actually within the referees' authority.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  6. The closing category in Law 5 covers any decision consistent with the Futsal Laws or with duties under FIFA, confederation, national association or competition regulations, not a stadium's house rules or a pre-match club agreement.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  7. Law 5's list ends with a catch-all covering any other decision taken in accordance with the Laws or the referees' duties, so an omission from the named examples does not defeat the exemption.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  8. Law 5 lists the pitch/weather decision and the apparel/equipment decision as two of its own named bullet points, so neither depends on the closing catch-all to be covered.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · applied

  9. Law 5 phrases this item as "a decision to stop or not to stop a match due to spectator interference", covering both directions of that call rather than only one of them.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

  10. Law 5's own text on this item adds "aside from the exceptions listed above", explicitly cross-referencing the injury-removal exceptions described among the referees' powers and duties.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials) · recall

5.52Powers and duties, equipment and video support

The referees' broad powers and duties: enforcing the Laws, ball and equipment checks, record-keeping, stopping play for outside interference (floodlights, spectator objects, a spectator's whistle, an extra ball or object on the pitch), managing injuries with their named exceptions, advantage, discipline and team-official conduct, and the referee's and second referee's own specific duties. Then the mandatory second referee for international matches, the referees' compulsory, optional and prohibited equipment, and the conditions and review process for video support.

Test 1Enforcing the Laws and handling outside interferenceTake a test

  1. The referees' duties include ensuring any ball used meets Law 2's requirements; its supplier, branding or match history play no part.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  2. Alongside the ball, the referees must ensure the players' equipment meets Law 4's requirements; boot brands, opponent approval and substitute colours are not part of that duty.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  3. Law 5 names inadequate floodlights as an example of outside interference the referees may stop, suspend or abandon the match for; it gives no rule for emergency lighting, an awarded result or a partial replay.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  4. Law 5 leaves the response to a thrown object hitting a match participant to the referee's judgement of severity, ranging from continuing play to abandoning the match; it does not mandate an automatic abandonment.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  5. Law 5 specifies that a spectator's whistle interfering with play is met with a stoppage and a dropped-ball restart, not a free kick, a kick-in or simply playing on.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  6. Law 5's general rule for an extra ball, object or animal interfering with play is to stop play and restart with a dropped ball; a corner kick or simply redirecting the object is not the prescribed response.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  7. Law 5 carves out this specific exception: if the interference does not stop a defender playing the real ball and does not come from the attacking side, a goal that goes in still stands.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  8. Law 5 withholds the goal specifically when the attacking team caused the interference; it draws no distinction by goalkeeper involvement or penalty-area location.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  9. Law 5 draws a clear line: no interference means play continues while the object is removed at the earliest opportunity, rather than a precautionary stoppage or a delegated removal task.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  10. Law 5 lists keeping a record of match incidents among the referees' general duties; spectator complaints, ball pressure and seating charts are not part of it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

Test 2Managing injuries on the pitchTake a test

  1. Law 5 requires the referees to stop play and see that a seriously injured player is removed from the pitch, not treated where they lie or left until a later stoppage.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  2. Law 5 requires the player to wait until after the restart and then re-enter specifically from their team's substitution zone, with no exception for goalkeepers, an immediate touchline return or a timeout.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  3. Law 5 exempts same-team players who collide and need attention from the requirement to leave the pitch, without a personal-treatment condition or a more-seriously-hurt distinction.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  4. Law 5 exempts an injured player who will take an already-awarded penalty kick from the leave-the-pitch requirement, with no forced replacement or retake condition attached.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  5. Law 5 names the goalkeeper specifically as the other exempted player once a penalty kick has been awarded, not the captain, a coach's nominee or the last player to touch the ball.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  6. Law 5 allows quick on-pitch assessment or treatment for a player hurt by a challenge that earns the opponent a caution or a send-off, provided it is completed quickly; it does not restrict this to a send-off alone.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  7. Law 5 conditions the player's return on the referees being satisfied both that the bleeding has stopped and that no blood remains on the equipment, and on receiving the referees' own signal to re-enter.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  8. Law 5 specifies the player leaves on a stretcher or on foot once medical staff are authorised onto the pitch, not exclusively by stretcher or at an opposing captain's request.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  9. Law 5 attaches a caution for unsporting behaviour to a player who does not comply with leaving the pitch as required, rather than an automatic send-off or a full match suspension.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  10. For a player only slightly injured in the referee's opinion, Law 5 lets play run on until the ball next goes out of play, rather than an immediate stoppage or waiting for a timeout.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

Test 3Advantage, discipline and the referee's own dutiesTake a test

  1. Law 5's advantage principle lets the referees allow play to continue when the offended team benefits, rather than stopping for every foul or automatically layering a free kick on top afterwards.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  2. Law 5 has the referees go back and penalise the original offence once the anticipated advantage fails to materialise within a few seconds, rather than letting it pass unpunished or defaulting to a dropped ball.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  3. Law 5 resolves simultaneous offences by having the referees punish the more serious one, not by stacking two restarts, following crowd reaction or letting both cancel out.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  4. Law 5 does not force immediate action but does fix a deadline: the next time the ball goes out of play, not an open-ended later stoppage or half-time.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  5. Law 5 gives the referee a graduated response to a misbehaving team official, from a warning through a caution to sending them off the pitch and its surrounds, including the technical area.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  6. Law 5 assigns the sanction to the senior coach present in the technical area when the actual offender cannot be identified, rather than leaving it unsanctioned or spreading it across the whole team sheet.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · applied

  7. Law 5 makes a specific allowance here: the medical official may stay and act when needed, precisely because the team has no other medical person, without an opposing-team veto or a treatment ban.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  8. Law 5 has the referees make the decision with the assistance of the other match officials for incidents they have not seen themselves, rather than leaving it unpunished or relying only on the captains or footage.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  9. Law 5's closing duty is a match report to the appropriate authorities covering sanctions and other incidents, not a public announcement, a club publication or a report limited to the winning side.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

  10. Law 5 has the referee personally cover the timekeeper and third referee duties when those officials are absent, rather than postponing the match or delegating the roles to the captains.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties) · recall

Test 4International matches and the referees' equipmentTake a test

  1. Law 5 states plainly that a second referee is mandatory for international matches, with no discretion left to the host association or either federation.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §5 (International Matches) · recall

  2. Law 5's compulsory list is at least one whistle, red and yellow cards, a notebook (or another way to record the match), and at least one watch; headsets, flags, phones and first-aid kits are not on it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · recall

  3. Law 5 allows "another means of keeping a record of the match" as an alternative to a notebook, rather than insisting on paper, a verbal report or someone else's separate record.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · applied

  4. Law 5 names communication equipment like headsets and EPTS or other fitness-monitoring equipment as the two kinds referees may be permitted to use; cameras, sponsor merchandise and music players are not among them.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · recall

  5. Law 5's prohibition targets any other electronic equipment, explicitly naming cameras, not sponsor branding, sunglasses or a spare whistle.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · recall

  6. Law 5 extends the jewellery prohibition to referees and other match officials together, not to a narrower group of on-pitch officials or to players alone.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · recall

  7. Law 5's jewellery ban makes one explicit exception: a watch or similar device worn to time the match when there is no timekeeper, not a general preference, a warm-up-only allowance or a material restriction.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · applied

  8. Since Law 5 permits both communication equipment and EPTS or fitness-monitoring gear as separate categories, a device serving both functions still falls within what is permitted; it need not be single-purpose or organiser-supplied.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · applied

  9. Law 5 states the mandatory second-referee rule specifically for international matches, so it does not by itself extend the requirement to every domestic fixture or hinge on a written waiver or broadcast status.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §5 (International Matches) · applied

  10. Red and yellow cards sit in Law 5's compulsory list alongside the whistle, notebook and watch, so they are not optional, verbal-only or excluded from the required items.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment) · recall

Test 5Video supportTake a test

  1. Law 5 conditions video support on the match or competition organisers fulfilling the VS protocol and implementation requirements and receiving FIFA's written permission, not on broadcast coverage or club agreement.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  2. Law 5 names the head coach as the one who challenges a decision, with a designated official standing in only when the head coach is absent, not any player, the captain by default, or any substitute.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  3. Law 5's four challengeable categories are goal/no goal, penalty/no penalty, direct red cards, and mistaken identity; restarts such as corners and kick-ins, cards other than a direct red, and general foul or possession calls are not on that list.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  4. Law 5 lets the referees themselves call for video support at their own discretion when they disagree over one of the listed categories, independent of whether a coach has challenged.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · applied

  5. Law 5's discretionary list includes a chronometer malfunction; a routine time-check request, a period restriction or the current scoreline are not conditions it sets.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  6. Law 5's wording covers the chronometer being incorrectly started, restarted or stopped by the timekeeper, not a delayed button press, a readability issue or where the table sits.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  7. Law 5's remaining discretionary uses are verifying whether a goal was scored and whether the ball entered the goal before the acoustic signal for a period's end, not the ball's specification, last touch, or line crossings.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  8. Law 5 has the referees review one or more replays of the incident directly, rather than limiting it to the second referee alone, handing it to a delegate, or relying on a written summary.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  9. Law 5 assigns the final decision after a video-support review specifically to the referee, not to the second referee, whichever official is nearest, or an outside delegate.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · recall

  10. Law 5 keeps the bar high: the initial decision changes only for a clear and obvious error or a serious missed incident, not for mere doubt, a coach's request, or a vote among officials.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support) · applied

Sources

FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Law, not reproduced)

  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §3 (Powers and Duties)30
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §2 (Decisions of the Referees)27
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §4 (Liability of the Match Officials)20
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §7 (Video Support)10
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §6 (Referees' Equipment)8
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §1 (The Authority of the Referees)3
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26, Law 5 §5 (International Matches)2