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Futsal · Level 1

Beginner

5 sub-levels · 25 tests · 250 facts · updated 6 September 2026

Level 1 is how futsal actually works. The shape of a match: five a side including the goalkeeper, two twenty-minute periods of stopped time, how a match is won, drawn and decided, the coin toss and the kick-off, and where the game came from. The court and the kit: the pitch and its markings, the penalty area of two quarter-circles rather than a rectangle, the ten-metre second penalty mark, the substitution zones, the three-by-two-metre goals and the low-bounce ball. Players, substitutions and the bench: rolling substitutions on the fly through a team's own zone, up to nine substitutes, changing the goalkeeper and the flying goalkeeper. Scoring, restarts and the four-second rule: the goal, the kick-in that replaces the throw-in, the goal clearance thrown rather than kicked, the corner, and no offside. Fouls, cards and accumulated fouls: direct against indirect free kicks, the yellow and red card, the two-minute numerical reduction, and what changes at a team's sixth foul in a period.

Sub-levels

Sub-level 1.1The Shape of a MatchThis sub-level teaches what a futsal match is — five players a side including the goalkeeper, two twenty-minute periods timed with a stopped clock, the one-minute timeout and the half-time interval; how a match is…5 tests · 50 factsSub-level 1.2The Court and the KitThis sub-level teaches where futsal is played and what with — a flat, hard, normally indoor court from twenty-five to forty-two metres long, marked with eight-centimetre lines, a halfway line and a centre circle of…5 tests · 50 factsSub-level 1.3Players, Substitutions and the BenchThis sub-level teaches who is on the court and who is off it — five players a side, one of them the goalkeeper, counted in the five and not extra, with a match abandoned if a team drops below three; rolling…5 tests · 50 factsSub-level 1.4Scoring, Restarts and the Four-Second RuleThis sub-level teaches how the ball comes back into play and the count that hangs over every restart — the four seconds a team has to take a kick-in, corner, goal clearance or free kick, and the four seconds a…5 tests · 50 factsSub-level 1.5Fouls, Cards and Accumulated FoulsThis sub-level teaches how futsal punishes fouls and misconduct — the direct free kick for kicking, tripping, pushing, holding, handling or sliding in to challenge, and the indirect free kick for dangerous play,…5 tests · 50 facts

Written from

FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26 (approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council, effective 5 September 2025) for every rule; the FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), chapter 2, and general futsal history for the sport's origins and governance. Both FIFA publications are free to download but not open-licensed, so questions are authored in original wording from these sources, never reproduced. A specific clause reference sits in each question's source field, never in the stem.