# The Penalty Kick and the Kick-In · Futsal Level 2: Elementary

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The Penalty Kick and the Kick-In in Futsal (Level 2: Elementary) on Insporta: 50 sourced facts behind 5 tests. Covers: the penalty kick — procedure; and more.

This sub-level teaches the penalty kick's procedure — the ball on the mark, the goalkeeper fixed to his line until it's kicked, every other player outside the area, behind the mark, 5 m back — and what follows a goalkeeper's encroachment against an attacker's, a simultaneous infringement, and a burst ball; the kick-in's own procedure — one foot on the touchline, the ball stationary within 25 cm of the exit point, the four-second limit, the opponents' 5 m, that it can never score directly, and what a second touch by the kicker, foot or hand, actually costs the team.

## Test 1: The Penalty Kick — Procedure

- A penalty kick is taken with the ball placed on the penalty mark. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1)
- The goalkeeper must remain on his goal line, facing the kicker and between the posts, until the ball is kicked. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1)
- Every player other than the kicker and the goalkeeper must be on the court, outside the penalty area, behind the penalty mark, and at least 5 m from it. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1)
- The ball is in play once it is kicked and moves forward. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.2)
- Law 14 describes the penalty kick as the ball being kicked forward, not simply touched in any direction. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.2)
- The Law's positioning requirements apply up to the moment the kick is taken; once it's struck, play is live and those players may react freely. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1 (synthesis))
- A player must be both behind the penalty mark and at least 5 m from it; satisfying only the distance isn't enough on its own. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1)
- Unlike the sixth-foul free kick, an ordinary penalty kick carries no requirement that a specific player be identified beforehand. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 (contrast with Law 13.4))
- A penalty kick is taken against a defending side with a goalkeeper positioned on the line; the kick can't proceed with nobody occupying that role. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 (general principle))
- The 5 m figure is the minimum gap the Law sets for anyone not taking or facing the kick. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1)

## Test 2: Penalty Kick — Encroachment and Retakes

- If the goalkeeper encroaches and no goal results, the penalty kick is retaken. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- A goalkeeper's early move doesn't undo a goal that was scored anyway. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- Attacker encroachment that still results in a goal leads to a retake, unlike goalkeeper encroachment, where a goal simply stands. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- If an attacker encroaches and the kick doesn't produce a goal, play restarts with an indirect free kick to the defending team, rather than a retake. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- The two forms of encroachment are treated differently once the kick misses: goalkeeper encroachment brings a retake, attacker encroachment brings an indirect free kick to the defenders. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- If both teams infringe simultaneously on a penalty kick, it is retaken. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.4)
- A penalty kick is retaken if the ball bursts or becomes defective during it. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.4)
- A rebound that strikes an outside agent, such as a ball boy, stops play; the restart depends on exactly where it happened, either a dropped ball or at the penalty line. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.5)
- A scored penalty following attacker encroachment is retaken; the same scenario following goalkeeper encroachment instead stands as a goal. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3)
- The consequence of encroachment varies with who caused it and whether the kick resulted in a goal; there's no single automatic outcome. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3 (synthesis))

## Test 3: The Kick-In — Procedure

![A futsal court seen from above. The ball rests on the bottom touchline where it went out and the taker stands outside the court with one foot on the line. A dashed circle of 5 m radius around the ball shows the distance every opponent must keep; two defenders wait just outside it. The taker plays the ball along the ground to a team-mate inside the court, and a note by the taker reads four seconds.](https://book.insporta.app/diagrams/futsal-kick-in.svg)
*The kick-in: ball on the touchline, opponents 5 m away, four seconds to take it.*

- The kicker must have one foot on the touchline, or on the ground outside the court, to take a kick-in. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2)
- The ball must be stationary before a kick-in is taken, the same requirement as an ordinary free kick. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2)
- The ball may be placed at the point where it left the court, or on the ground outside it, at a distance no greater than 25 cm from that point. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2)
- A kick-in, like futsal's other restarts, must be delivered within four seconds of being ready to take it. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.3)
- Opponents must stay at least 5 m from the spot on the touchline where a kick-in is taken. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.3)
- Futsal's kick-in, not a throw-in, is what restarts play from the touchline, and it carries its own 5 m distance requirement for opponents. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.1 & 15.3)
- A kick-in taken with one foot on the touchline and the ball within 25 cm of the exit point satisfies both of the Law's positioning requirements. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2)
- A kick-in is awarded to the opponents of the player who last touched the ball before it crossed the touchline. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.1)
- The kick-in goes to the opponents of whoever last touched the ball, here the defender, so the attacking side takes it. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.1)
- A properly stationary ball and a foot correctly placed on the touchline together satisfy the kick-in's two basic positioning requirements. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.2 (synthesis))

## Test 4: The Kick-In — No Direct Goal and the Second Touch

- A goal may not be scored directly from a kick-in. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.4)
- A kick-in cannot produce a goal directly, regardless of how clean the strike was. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.4)
- If the kicker touches the ball again, other than with his hands, before another player touches it, an indirect free kick is awarded to the opponents. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5)
- Deliberately handling the ball after a kick-in, before another player touches it, brings a direct free kick and counts toward the kicking team's accumulated fouls. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5)
- A second touch with the foot is only an indirect free kick, while deliberately handling the ball afterward is a direct free kick that also counts as an accumulated foul. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5)
- The second-touch restriction applies only until another player touches the ball; once an opponent, or a team-mate, has touched it, the kicker is free to play it again. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5)
- Like an indirect free kick, a kick-in cannot produce a goal directly; a corner kick is different, since a goal scored straight from a corner does count. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.4 & Law 13 (synthesis))
- Because deliberately handling the ball after a kick-in counts as an accumulated foul, it adds to the team's running total exactly like any other foul that period. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5 & 13.3 (synthesis))
- The extra sanction is tied specifically to the hand, not to touching the ball again as such. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5)
- The restriction on the kicker touching the ball again only applies until another player touches it; after that, the kicker may play it like anyone else. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.5 (synthesis))

## Test 5: Putting It Together

- A stationary ball is required before both a penalty kick and a kick-in are taken, the same as any other restart. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 & 15 (synthesis))
- A kick-in cannot produce a direct goal; a penalty kick, by its nature, is a direct attempt at goal. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 & Law 15.4 (synthesis))
- Both the penalty kick and the kick-in require opponents to stay at least 5 m away, the same distance as an ordinary free kick. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1 & 15.3 (synthesis))
- The kick-in must be delivered within four seconds of being ready, unlike a penalty kick, which carries no such time limit. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15.3 (contrast with Law 14))
- The kick-in's specific infringement is the kicker touching the ball again before another player does, a different concept from a penalty kick's encroachment by a positioned player. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3 & Law 15.5 (synthesis))
- A penalty kick specifically requires every player besides the kicker and goalkeeper to be outside the penalty area and behind the mark; a kick-in's rule is only about the 5 m distance for opponents. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1 & 15.3 (synthesis))
- An indirect free kick to the defenders is specifically what follows an attacker's encroachment on a penalty; an ordinary kick-in that doesn't produce a goal has no such special restart, since a kick-in was never going to score directly anyway. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.3 & Law 15 (synthesis))
- A kick-in goes to the opponents of whoever last touched the ball before it crossed the touchline; a penalty kick, by contrast, follows a foul inside the penalty area, not a question of last touch. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 & Law 15.1 (synthesis))
- A penalty kick's ball must be placed exactly on the penalty mark, with no tolerance; the 25 cm allowance is specific to a kick-in's placement. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14.1 & 15.2 (synthesis))
- Both sets of rules exist to give the kicker room to take the restart without immediate interference, whether that means a 5 m gap at a kick-in or the fuller positioning rules around a penalty. (Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14 & Law 15 (purpose, synthesis))

Sources: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26 (approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council, effective 5 September 2025) for every rule. Free to download but not open-licensed, so questions are authored in original wording, never reproduced. A specific clause reference sits in each question's source field, never in the stem.

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