Fouls, Cards and Accumulated Fouls

Careless, reckless or forceful physical offences such as kicking, tripping, charging, pushing, holding or a deliberate handball are punished with a direct free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · recall

A goal may be scored directly against the opponents from a direct free kick; from an indirect free kick a second player must touch the ball first.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

A direct-free-kick offence committed by a defender inside his own penalty area, while the ball is in play, is punished with a penalty kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 · applied

Sliding in to challenge an opponent who is playing or trying to play the ball is a direct-free-kick foul in futsal, whatever the angle; sliding for a loose ball with no opponent involved is allowed.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

It is the challenge that is punished, not the slide itself; sliding to play a loose ball with no opponent contesting it is perfectly legal.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

Every foul punished by a direct free kick is added to the team's accumulated-foul tally for that period; indirect-free-kick offences are not.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Deliberate handball is treated no differently from a trip or a push here, so it feeds the same running total for that period.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

A direct free kick is taken from the place where the offence occurred, unless it was inside the offending team's own penalty area, when it becomes a penalty kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

A charge is only an offence when it is careless, reckless or uses excessive force; a fair, shoulder-to-shoulder challenge for a ball within playing distance is not a foul.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

The referee may let play continue if the fouled team keeps an advantage, returning to caution the offender at the next stoppage; the foul is still recorded if it was a direct-free-kick offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 5 · applied

Dangerous play, impeding an opponent without contact, and the goalkeeper's handling offences are punished with an indirect free kick; the physical fouls give a direct one.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · recall

For an indirect free kick the referee raises an arm above his head and keeps it there until the ball has been touched by another player or goes out of play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

The word "indirect" is the whole point here: nothing counts until a second player has touched the ball, so the strike is waved out.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The bar on scoring straight away applies only to the very first contact; bring in a second player and the restriction has done its job.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The tally is built purely from the physical fouls; dangerous play, obstruction and the goalkeeper's handling offences never move it, however often they crop up.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

A goalkeeper may not handle a ball deliberately kicked to him by a team-mate; the offence is an indirect free kick to the opponents, taken from where he handled it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

Impeding an opponent's progress without making contact is an indirect-free-kick offence; if there is contact, it becomes a direct free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

The raised arm tells everyone the kick is indirect; the referee lowers it once the ball has been touched by a second player or has gone out of play, and only then can a goal stand.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

It makes no difference that his feet did the work: touching the ball again in his own half before an opponent gets to it, or before it crosses halfway, breaks the same restriction.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

Defenders only have to be at least 5 m from the ball; a free kick just outside the penalty area is about 6 m from goal, so a defender on his goal line is far enough away.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

A yellow card is a caution: a recorded warning for offences such as unsporting behaviour, dissent or delaying the restart; it does not reduce the team.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · recall

A second caution in the same match means a second yellow card followed by a red; the player is sent off and the team plays short for two minutes.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · recall

Serious foul play, violent conduct, spitting, offensive language and denying an obvious goalscoring chance are sending-off offences; dissent and delaying are only cautions.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · recall

Fouling an opponent to deny a clear goalscoring opportunity is a red-card offence; the team is then also a player short for two minutes.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

Substitutes and substituted players are subject to the same cautions and send-offs as those on the court; a substitute sent off before taking the field cannot be used, but the team on court is not reduced.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

No team-mate leaves; the sent-off player is simply not replaced, so the team plays four against five until the two minutes are up or the opponents score.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3.8 · applied

A team official sent off leaves the technical area, but the team is not reduced on the court; only a player's red card brings the two-minute reduction.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

The referee keeps the power to show yellow and red cards from the pre-match inspection until he leaves the field of play after the final whistle.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 5 · recall

When a player commits more than one offence at the same time, the referee punishes the most serious one; a send-off offence outranks a caution.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 · applied

Cards punish an individual's misconduct; the accumulated-foul count punishes a team for repeated fouling in a period, with a harsher free kick from the sixth foul on, whether or not any card was shown.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

The tally counts the fouls punished with a direct free kick; dangerous play, impeding without contact or a goalkeeper's handling offence never add to it, and no foul is recorded when a penalty kick is given.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Each team's accumulated fouls are counted separately in each period; the tally goes back to zero at the start of the second period.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

First-period accumulated fouls do not carry into the second period; each team begins the second half on zero.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The running total is displayed for both teams, and once a team reaches five fouls the officials indicate that the next one will be a sixth-foul free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Extra time is treated as a continuation of the second period, so the accumulated fouls from the second period are still counted and any in extra time add to that total.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

Only direct-free-kick fouls are counted, so an indirect-free-kick offence does not become an accumulated foul, whatever the running total.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

From the sixth accumulated foul on, each further direct-free-kick foul by that team is a free kick with no defensive wall, taken from the ten-metre mark or, if nearer goal, the place of the foul.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

The sixth foul happened further from goal than the ten-metre mark, so the free kick is taken from that mark; only a foul nearer to goal than the mark lets the attackers choose the foul spot instead.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

Because the foul was nearer to goal than the ten-metre mark, the attacking team may take the free kick from the mark or from where the foul happened, whichever they want.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The count is kept per team; a team's sixth foul brings the no-wall free kick against that team only, and the opponents' tally is entirely separate.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

A sixth-foul free kick is taken with no defensive wall; the kicker must try to score directly and may not pass it to a team-mate.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Unless the foul was nearer to goal than the ten-metre mark, the sixth-foul free kick is taken from the second penalty mark, ten metres out.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

At a DFKSAF the defending goalkeeper must be at least 5 m from the ball until it is kicked and must not distract the kicker; the Laws set no goal-line or penalty-area requirement for him.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Every player except the kicker and the goalkeeper must be on the court, behind an imaginary line level with the ball and parallel to the goal line, at least five metres from the ball and not in the penalty area.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

At a sixth-foul free kick the taker must kick the ball forward with the intention of scoring; he cannot pass it to a team-mate.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The post is not a player, so a taker who scores from his own rebound off the woodwork has touched the ball twice with no one else involved; the goal is disallowed and an indirect free kick given.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

There is no wall, but players must stay five metres from the ball and behind it; if the early defender had an impact on the kick and the shot is then saved or missed, the kick is retaken and the defender is warned; with no impact, there is no retake.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

The four-second limit applies to a sixth-foul free kick as to any other; the taker must strike it within four seconds of the referee signalling that it may be taken.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · recall

Fouls punished with a direct free kick are counted, but no accumulated foul is recorded when a penalty kick is awarded.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

Every foul from the sixth on is a no-wall free kick from the ten-metre mark unless the foul was nearer goal, so late fouling when already over the limit gives the opponents a clear shot.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 · applied

For handball the arm begins at a line level with the bottom of the armpit. A is on the arm below that line; B is on the shoulder above it, and C and D are on the leg.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

Not every touch of the hand or arm is an offence; it is one when deliberate or when the arm has made the body unnaturally bigger.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

Deliberately touching the ball with the hand or arm, for example by moving the arm towards it, is a direct-free-kick offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

A player whose arm makes his body unnaturally bigger takes the risk of being hit by the ball and is penalised if it happens.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

If the goalkeeper handles in his own penalty area when not permitted, an indirect free kick is awarded, with no disciplinary sanction.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

Outside his penalty area the goalkeeper has the same restrictions on handling the ball as any other player.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

If a player does not score immediately after an accidental touch of the hand or arm, play continues, provided the arm had not made the body bigger.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

The kick-in Law treats a taker's deliberate handling in his own area as a penalty offence; a goalkeeper taker would concede just an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2 · applied

Denying a goal with a deliberate handball is a sending-off offence wherever it happens, and inside the penalty area the restart is a penalty kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Even an accidental touch disqualifies a goal that follows straight away; the defending team restarts with an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

A careless challenge is one made without proper attention or without taking precautions; it brings a free kick but no card.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

A careless foul needs no disciplinary sanction; the direct free kick is the punishment.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

A reckless challenge ignores the danger it poses to the opponent, and the player must be cautioned.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

Using excessive force means exceeding the force needed or endangering the opponent's safety, and the player must be sent off: the red card, B.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

Jumping at an opponent carelessly, recklessly or with excessive force is a direct-free-kick offence; the others give an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

Holding an opponent is one of the direct-free-kick offences.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

Kicking or attempting to kick an opponent is a direct-free-kick offence, so the attempt alone is enough.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

All verbal offences are penalised with an indirect free kick, whatever card they bring.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.4 · applied

A careless challenge brings no card, a reckless one a caution and one using excessive force a send-off.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · recall

Spitting at someone is a direct-free-kick offence and a sending-off offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 12.1 and 12.3 · applied

The referees may let play continue when the team fouled will benefit, rather than stopping for the free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 5.3 · recall

The original offence is penalised if the expected advantage does not come at once or within a few seconds.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 5.3 · applied

Advantage should not be applied for serious foul play, violent conduct, a second caution or a sixth accumulated foul, unless there is a clear chance to score.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · recall

After playing advantage, the referees give the accumulated-foul signal to the timekeeper and third referee as soon as the ball is out of play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.4 · applied

When advantage is played for an offence that denied an obvious goalscoring opportunity, the player is cautioned rather than sent off.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

If the advantage is applied for an offence that interfered with or stopped a promising attack, the player is not cautioned.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

If advantage is played and a red card is given after a goal is scored, the team continues with the same number, a substitute replacing the sent-off player.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Advantage may be played only if the offending team has not already committed five accumulated fouls, unless a clear goalscoring chance would be lost. Grey have five, so the foul is their sixth and a sixth-foul free kick is given.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.4 · applied

When the attack fizzles out at once, the referees go back and give the free kick for the foul they had waved on.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 5.3 · applied

A caution withheld while advantage is played must be given when the ball next goes out of play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Leaving the court to celebrate is not cautionable, but the player should return as soon as possible.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Removing the shirt, or covering the head with it, to celebrate is a cautionable offence. B has taken his shirt off; the armband and the black head cover are normal kit.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Covering the head or face with a mask or similar item to celebrate is a caution.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Choreographed celebrations are not encouraged and must not cause excessive time-wasting.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · recall

Delaying the restart of play is a cautionable offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Handling the ball in an attempt to score is a caution for unsporting behaviour, whether or not the attempt succeeds.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

A player who acts in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way must be cautioned even if the goal is disallowed.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Approaching the spectators in a way that causes safety or security issues is a caution, even if the goal is disallowed.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Trying to deceive the referees by pretending to be fouled is a caution for unsporting behaviour, and play restarts with an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.3 · applied

Verbally distracting an opponent during play is a caution, and a verbal offence is restarted with an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 12.3 and 12.4 · applied

Blocking is a legitimate tactic in futsal if the blocker is stationary at the moment of contact, does not move into the opponent's path and the opponent can avoid him.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

A block can be performed against an opponent who may or may not have the ball.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · recall

A player may shield the ball by taking a position between an opponent and the ball if it is within playing distance and he does not hold the opponent off.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · recall

Shielding is fair only if the opponent is not held off with the arms or body; holding an opponent is a direct-free-kick offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

Stepping into an opponent's path is punished more heavily once there is contact: it becomes a direct free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 · applied

All players have a right to their position; being in the way of an opponent is not the same as moving into his way.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

A scissors or bicycle kick is allowed provided it is not dangerous to an opponent.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · recall

Dangerous play includes preventing a nearby opponent from playing the ball for fear of injury; it gives an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

Moving into an opponent's path when the ball is not within playing distance, without contact, is impeding and gives an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.2 · applied

Impeding without contact gives an indirect free kick, holding a direct free kick, and a tackle with excessive force a direct free kick and a red card.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 12.1 and 12.2 · recall