Free Kicks and Accumulated Fouls

For both direct and indirect free kicks, the ball must be stationary when the kick is taken.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.1 · recall

A free kick must be taken within four seconds of being positioned; exceeding that limit turns it into an indirect free kick for the opponents.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.2 · applied

On a free kick outside the penalty area, opponents must stay at least 5 m from the ball until it is in play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.1 · recall

Every free kick outside the penalty area carries the same 5 m distance requirement for opponents, not only the sixth-foul kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.1 · applied

The four seconds run from the ball being positioned for the free kick, the same starting point as futsal's other four-second restarts.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.2 · recall

An indirect free kick needs a second touch, by another player, before a goal can count from it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (indirect restart principle) · applied

A direct free kick may be shot straight at goal and counts if it goes in, unlike an indirect free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (direct/indirect distinction) · recall

The 5 m distance and four-second limit apply to free kicks in general, direct and indirect alike.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.1–13.2 · applied

An ordinary free kick, unlike a sixth-foul award, is taken from the spot of the offence.

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

The choice between the second penalty mark and the spot of the foul is specific to a sixth-foul award, not to every free kick.

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

Tripping sits among the direct free kick offences; delaying, dissent and persistent infringement are cautionable conduct instead.

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

A challenge judged reckless is one of the offences producing a direct free kick, not merely a caution.

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

Deliberate handball sits among the direct free kick offences, alongside tripping and pushing.

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

Controlling the ball in his own half for more than four seconds is a goalkeeper offence producing an indirect, not a direct, free kick.

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

Dangerous play involving no actual contact is an indirect free kick offence; striking, tripping and jumping at an opponent are all direct free kick offences.

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

Impeding an opponent without contact is an indirect, not a direct, free kick offence.

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

Pushing an opponent, when careless, reckless or with excessive force, is one of the direct free kick offences.

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

Law 12's free kick offences all involve some careless, reckless or dangerous conduct; a clean challenge that wins the ball isn't one of them.

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

Law 12 frames its direct free kick offences on a scale starting at careless, rising through reckless to excessive force.

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

Law 12 penalises deliberately handling the ball; the offence turns on intent, not on mere contact.

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

For a team's first five accumulated fouls in a period, the defending side may form a wall to defend the free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · recall

A third foul in a period is still within the first five, so the ordinary free kick procedure applies, wall included.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · applied

Accumulated fouls are counted per period; a team enters the second period, and extra time, with the count back at zero.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · recall

The accumulated-foul count resets at the start of each period, so five fouls in the first leave the team back at zero for the second.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · applied

The sixth and later fouls of a period switch off the wall and bring a different, more restrictive procedure.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3–13.4 · recall

A wall remains legal through a team's fifth foul in a period; only the sixth foul onward removes it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · applied

The wall is available for a team's first five accumulated fouls in a period; it disappears from the sixth foul onward.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · recall

The fourth foul sits within the first five and still allows a wall; the seventh is past the sixth-foul threshold and does not.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3–13.4 · applied

Accumulated fouls reset per period, and extra time is its own period for that purpose, so both teams start it back at zero.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · recall

The wall disappears starting with the sixth foul, so a team already on its fifth is exactly one foul away from losing it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · applied

From the sixth team foul of a period onward, the defending team's players may not form a wall at all.

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

When a sixth-foul offence happens in that zone, the attacking team chooses between the second penalty mark and the spot of the foul.

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

Every player besides the kicker and the goalkeeper must stay behind an imaginary line, level with the ball and parallel to the goal line, at least 5 m away.

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

The 5 m distance for a sixth-foul free kick applies to every player besides the kicker and the goalkeeper, not just to the one who fouled.

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

The goalkeeper must remain in his own penalty area, at least 5 m from the ball, for a sixth-foul free kick.

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

The goalkeeper's minimum distance from the ball is 5 m, wherever exactly on the goal line or in the area he chooses to stand.

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

The Law requires the kicker for a sixth-foul free kick to be a specific, properly identified player, not an open choice on the spot.

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

The identified kicker of a sixth-foul free kick must attempt to score with a direct shot, not lay the ball off.

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

A stationary ball, the 5 m distance and the four-second limit apply to free kicks generally; the wall ban is specific to the sixth foul and beyond.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.1–13.4 (synthesis) · recall

That choice of spot is specific to a sixth foul committed in the defending team's own half, outside the penalty area, between the imaginary 10 m line and the goal line.

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

The fourth foul is within the first five, so a wall is allowed; the choice between the mark and the foul spot belongs only to the sixth foul onward.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3–13.4 · applied

A prompt, direct shot at goal within four seconds satisfies both the general time limit on any free kick and the sixth-foul kick's specific direct-shot requirement.

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

A stationary ball is required for every free kick; a wall, the choice of spot, and the specific identified-kicker rule are all sixth-foul-specific or absent from it.

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

A direct free kick offence committed by the defending team inside its own penalty area is a penalty kick, whatever that team's foul count for the period.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 12–14 (general principle) · applied

At a sixth-foul free kick, even the goalkeeper must stay at least 5 m from the ball; only the kicker himself stands closer.

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

The sixth foul removes the wall, tightens where every other player must stand, and can move the restart to the second penalty mark — real procedural change, not stricter phrasing of the same rule.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3–13.4 · applied

Reaching the sixth foul removes only the wall from the procedure; the time limit, the distance rule and how a challenge itself gets judged all apply throughout.

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

Because the accumulated-foul count resets at the start of each period, there is nothing from an earlier period left over to carry toward the next one's threshold.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13.3 · applied

Removing the wall and tightening positioning from the sixth foul onward raises the cost of persistent fouling, so a team can't foul tactically once it has already used up its first five.

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

Outside his own penalty area a goalkeeper has no special handling privilege, so deliberate handball there is an ordinary direct free kick offence.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12.1 (goalkeeper outside the area) · applied