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Futsal · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.5

How the Laws Changed

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 15 October 2026 · markdown

This sub-level teaches how futsal's rules were shaped over time into a distinct, fast, tightly managed indoor game rather than a small copy of eleven-a-side football — the touchline restart moving from the hand throw-in of Ceriani's 1933 code and the FIFUSA game to the kick-in that FIFA introduced in the late 1980s to speed play and mark its version apart (FIFA even trialled the kick-in in association football at the 1993 youth World Cup, where it was judged too slow); the four-second rule that binds the kick-in, corner, free kick, goal clearance and the goalkeeper in his own half, shown on the referee's raised-hand count, as futsal's answer to time-wasting on a stopped clock; the accumulated-foul system, where a team's sixth direct-free-kick foul in a half and every one after it becomes a wall-less direct kick from the second penalty mark ten metres out, built to make cynical fouling punish itself; the rolling ("flying") substitutions the game has always used, unlimited and made on the move through a team's own zone, borrowed from hockey and the mechanism behind the flying-goalkeeper power play; and the one-minute timeout, one per team per half with no carry-over and none in extra time, a coaching window with no equivalent in football. Where a question revisits a Law taught for an earlier level, it is framed on when and why the rule changed, and cites general futsal history; tests 6-10 add kick-offs and the end of a period, the rewritten goal clearance, the kick-in today, fouls and discipline today, and court, kit and bench updates in the 2025/26 Laws.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1The touchline restart, from throw-in to kick-inTake a test

  1. Ceriani borrowed the touchline throw from the court sports his game grew out of; the kick-in came decades later with FIFA.

    Source: Wikipedia, "Futsal" (history of the laws); DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future" · recall

  2. Swapping the throw for a kick was a deliberate break from the FIFUSA game and a way to keep restarts quick.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Why Throw Ins Should Return To Futsal & Other Rule Changes to Enhance the Game" · recall

  3. The two bodies were fighting for control of the sport, so a visibly different restart helped brand the FIFA version.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future" · applied

  4. Sepp Blatter pushed to bring the kick-in to football, and the 1993 under-17 trial in Japan was the showcase.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Why Throw Ins Should Return To Futsal & Other Rule Changes to Enhance the Game" · recall

  5. Kicks took far longer to take than throws, and that trial is why the throw-in survives in football today.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Why Throw Ins Should Return To Futsal & Other Rule Changes to Enhance the Game" · applied

  6. Because FIFA changed the restart and the AMF did not, the throw-in versus kick-in split is one of the clearest differences between the two codes.

    Source: es.wikipedia, "Fútbol sala"; Argentina Amateur Deporte, "Las diferencias del futsal entre la AMF y la FIFA" · recall

  7. The count that governs the kick-in is the same four seconds futsal applies to the corner, the free kick and the goal clearance.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15; inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules" · recall

  8. Nothing can be scored straight from a kick-in, which is the opposite of the corner kick, where futsal does allow a direct goal.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 15 and 17 (verified for L2 2.3-2.4) · applied

  9. Older Laws gave only an indirect kick-off; the change let a team shoot straight from the restart, though an own goal from it still gives a corner.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules and we have the summary" (2020-21 edition) · applied

  10. From the kick-in to the four-second count, the direction of travel has been toward a faster, more continuous game than the FIFUSA original.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · applied

Test 2The four-second ruleTake a test

  1. Those four restarts share the count; the kick-off and the penalty kick are the notable restarts left out of it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26; inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules" · recall

  2. For the keeper the zone is the whole half, not just the area, and it covers the ball at his feet as well as in his hands.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 (verified for L2 2.5) · recall

  3. The raised-hand count is deliberately visual, so the taker can see exactly how long is left without hearing anything.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Practical Guidelines for Referees · recall

  4. Overrunning the four seconds hands the kick-in itself to the opponents, from the same point on the touchline; an indirect free kick is the penalty at a free kick or a goal clearance, not at a kick-in.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 (verified for L2 2.3) · applied

  5. It is the same indirect free kick a keeper concedes for a second touch or for handling a team-mate's kick-in, taken on the area line.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 (verified for L2 2.5) · applied

  6. A stopped clock means every idle second is a second stolen from the game, so futsal caps the delay that football can safely ignore.

    Source: UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"; inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained" · recall

  7. The kick-off is under no pressure to be quick and the penalty has its own routine, so neither carries the count.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Practical Guidelines for Referees · recall

  8. The limit is a floor on speed, not a ban on using the time; a side can spend all four seconds arranging a set play as long as the kick then comes.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · applied

  9. A keeper who must play inside four seconds cannot wait out a press, so high pressing and the count reinforce each other.

    Source: FIFA Training Centre, "The high-block and high press" · applied

  10. Every application, restart or goalkeeper, serves the same end: no stretch of a stopped-clock match is allowed to drift.

    Source: inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules" · applied

Test 3Accumulated fouls and the 10 m kickTake a test

  1. Indirect-free-kick offences and cards do not add to the tally; it is the direct-free-kick fouls that stack up toward the sixth.

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

  2. The sixth foul flips the punishment: no wall, a free run at goal, a near-penalty from ten metres.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (verified for L2 2.2) · recall

  3. The mark is ten metres out, four further than the ordinary six-metre spot, which is why it plays as a slightly longer penalty.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 1 and 13 (verified for L1 1.2, L2 2.2) · recall

  4. If the foul was closer to goal than ten metres, the attacker may kick from there instead; otherwise the ten-metre mark is used.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (verified for L2 2.2) · recall

  5. The tally is a per-half thing: both teams go back to zero fouls after the break, then it climbs again.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (verified for L2 2.2) · recall

  6. Unlike the half-time reset, extra time is treated as a continuation, so the fouls from the second half still stand.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (verified for L2 2.2) · recall

  7. A normal free kick was a cheap price for stopping a break; making the sixth foul a free shot took the profit out of tactical fouling.

    Source: UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"; inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained" · applied

  8. In football a foul to stop a break costs only field position; in futsal it can be the one that turns every later foul into a ten-metre kick.

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

  9. A pending DFKSAF or penalty is completed before the period ends; the 2020-21 text kept a rule the 2014/15 Laws already had, so the foul count can still decide a game on the hooter.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules and we have the summary" (2020-21 edition) · applied

  10. The tally means the sixth foul, not the first, carries the real price, so a disciplined defence became a tactical asset football does not demand.

    Source: inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules" · applied

Test 4Flying substitutionsTake a test

  1. The defining feature is the timing: play never stops for a futsal change, unlike the stoppage-only swap football uses.

    Source: inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · recall

  2. The zone is a marked few metres in front of each bench; entering anywhere else is an offence even if the numbers are right.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 · recall

  3. The court must never hold six from one team; the leaver crosses the line first, then the replacement comes on.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 (verified for L2 2.5) · recall

  4. There is no ceiling on re-entry; a key player can rotate off to breathe and come straight back many times over.

    Source: inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained" · recall

  5. Nine subs plus five starters is the standard squad of fourteen; smaller competitions may set their own lower figure.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 (verified for L1 1.3) · recall

  6. Basketball gave the five players and the playing time, water polo the goalkeeping rules and handball the court and goal sizes; the rolling substitution resembles hockey, but no documented source shows Ceriani borrowing it.

    Source: Wikipedia, "Futsal" (origins and rule sources); FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), Ch. 2 · recall

  7. Improper substitution is dealt with by a caution for the guilty substitute, then an indirect free kick from where the ball was.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 (verified for L2 2.5) · applied

  8. Because a change needs no stoppage, a team can trade its goalkeeper for a fifth outfielder and reverse it the instant possession is lost.

    Source: 5-a-side.com, "Futsal Fly Goalkeeper – Rules and Strategy Explained" · applied

  9. A short court, a squad of fourteen and a clock that stops make constant changes manageable; over ninety minutes on a full pitch they would be chaos to police.

    Source: General futsal coaching; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · applied

  10. The squad size and the zone rules were tightened over the years, but the core idea, changing on the move, is as old as the game itself.

    Source: Wikipedia, "Futsal"; FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), Ch. 2 · applied

Test 5The timeoutTake a test

  1. It is one apiece per period; a side that saves its first-half timeout cannot roll it into the second.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · recall

  2. A futsal timeout runs a single minute, long enough for a word and a drink, not the longer break some other indoor sports allow.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 (verified for L1 1.1) · recall

  3. The coach signals the third referee or timekeeper, and it is given only when his team has the ball out of play and the restart, so an opponent's quick attack cannot be denied.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 6 and 7 (verified for L2 2.1, 2.5) · recall

  4. Each period stands alone: an unspent first-half timeout simply disappears at the break rather than doubling up later.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 (verified for L1 1.1) · recall

  5. Timeouts belong to the two regulation halves only; once extra time starts, coaches have to manage without one.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 (verified for L1 1.1) · recall

  6. With a stopped clock the minute is genuinely free; football's running clock and larger pitch make a formal coaching break far harder to justify.

    Source: inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · applied

  7. Down late, the timeout is the moment to brief the power play: who goes in goal, the shape, the first pass, before committing to five-on-four.

    Source: General futsal knowledge · applied

  8. A minute's stoppage after conceding lets a rattled side regroup and cuts the scoring team's flow, the way a basketball coach uses one.

    Source: General futsal coaching; inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained" · applied

  9. Basketball gave the five-a-side count and the forty minutes of playing time, and with them the stopped-clock, timeout style of game management.

    Source: Wikipedia, "Futsal"; FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), Ch. 2 · recall

  10. The through-line of futsal's law-making is a distinct, quick, tightly managed game, deliberately not a small copy of eleven-a-side football.

    Source: DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide" · applied

Test 6Kick-offs and the End of a PeriodTake a test

  1. Before 2020-21 a goal could not be scored directly from the kick-off. The 2020-21 edition changed that.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules" (2020-21 edition) · recall

  2. The extension is older than 2020-21: the 2014/15 Laws already extended a period until a pending penalty kick or sixth-foul free kick had been taken, and the 2025/26 Laws keep that.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules" (2020-21 edition) · recall

  3. Every player is in his own half, and the opponents stay outside the 3 m centre circle until the ball is in play.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 8 · recall

  4. Only a penalty or a free kick without a wall extends a period; a pending corner does not.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · recall

  5. The kick ends when the ball stops or goes out, is played by a player other than the defending goalkeeper, or play stops for an offence by the kicker's team.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · recall

  6. Periods may be reduced only if the competition rules allow it; the teams cannot agree it between themselves.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · recall

  7. Since 2020-21, denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity is a sending-off wherever it happens on the court.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules" (2020-21 edition) · recall

  8. An own goal cannot be scored straight from a kick-off. The ball went into the kicking team's own goal, so grey get a corner kick.

    Source: FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules" (2020-21 edition) · applied

  9. A parry by the defending goalkeeper does not end the kick; the ball going out of play does.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · applied

  10. Players take their places, the opponents keep 3 m away, and the kick-off is taken on the signal.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 8 · applied

Test 7The Goal Clearance RewrittenTake a test

  1. The ball no longer has to leave the penalty area: it is in play as soon as it is thrown or released and clearly moves.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  2. Older editions made the ball leave the penalty area before it was in play; 2025/26 dropped that.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  3. An opponent who had no time to leave may stay; the clearance is retaken only if he touches or challenges for the ball before it is in play.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  4. That retake disappeared in the 2025/26 edition.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  5. A goal cannot be scored directly from a goal clearance. Into his own goal, it is a corner kick to the opponents.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  6. Before the ball is in play, touching or challenging for it brings a retake; once it has clearly moved, he may play for it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  7. The ball no longer has to leave the penalty area, so a short release to a team-mate inside it is fine.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · recall

  8. Grey's 8 had no time to leave and has not touched or challenged for the ball, so play continues.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · applied

  9. The goal clearance follows the ball leaving over the end line off an attacker; it must be taken in four seconds.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · applied

  10. The in-play moment moved earlier: from leaving the area to the first clear movement of the ball.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 16 · applied

Test 8The Kick-In TodayTake a test

  1. The ball used to be placed on the line or within 25 cm of it; in 2025/26 it is stationary on the touch line where it went out.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  2. Only the kicker may be outside the court; a team-mate off the court gives a kick-in to the opponents.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  3. Older editions required one foot on the touch line or on the ground outside; the 2025/26 Laws dropped that rule.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  4. An opponent closer than 5 m who distracts or impedes is cautioned; if the kick-in was taken, an indirect free kick follows.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  5. An untouched ball that leaves over either touch line gives a kick-in to the opponents.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  6. Older editions gave an indirect free kick; the 2025/26 Laws give the kick-in to the opponents instead.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  7. A kick-in cannot score directly for either side, so the opponents restart from the corner.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · recall

  8. Only the kicker may be off the court at a kick-in. White's 10 is outside too, so grey get the kick-in.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · applied

  9. The ball is placed on the touch line where it left, and the count starts once the team is ready.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · applied

  10. An opponent closer than 5 m who distracts the taker is cautioned.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · applied

Test 9Fouls and Discipline TodayTake a test

  1. Where the handball happens does not matter: stopping a goal or a clear chance with a deliberate handball is a red card.

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

  2. With a penalty awarded, an attempt to play the ball inside the area is a caution; holding, pulling or pushing is still a sending-off.

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

  3. The 2025/26 booklet records no accumulated foul when the award is a penalty kick.

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

  4. Advantage is only possible if the offending team has not already reached five accumulated fouls, unless a goal or an obvious chance is at stake.

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

  5. A slide has no special rule: it is judged careless, reckless or with excessive force, like any challenge.

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

  6. All verbal offences restart with an indirect free kick.

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

  7. The third referee places the fifth-foul sign when advantage is played, so everyone knows the team is on five.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 6 · recall

  8. White's 9 is clean through. Outside the area, denying an obvious chance is a red card even when it was an attempt to play the ball.

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

  9. A sent-off team plays short until two minutes have passed or a goal is scored; the third referee gives it the time a substitute may enter.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 · applied

  10. Inside the area with a penalty awarded, a genuine attempt to play the ball brings a caution, not a red card.

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

Test 10Court, Kit and Bench UpdatesTake a test

  1. The surface is preferably wooden; artificial turf is only allowed exceptionally in domestic competitions.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1 · recall

  2. The booklet leaves the ceiling height to the competition rules; it does not fix a number.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1 · recall

  3. Goals are stabilised by weight and are not fixed to the floor.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1 · recall

  4. Compulsory footwear has no sole rule in the 2025/26 edition.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 4 · recall

  5. The substitute hands his bib to the player he replaces, or to the third referee if that player left elsewhere.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 · recall

  6. Editions from the mid-2000s gave 0.4-0.6 atm at sea level; by the 2012/13 edition the Laws already said 0.6-0.9 atm, and the 2025/26 Laws keep that range.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 2 · recall

  7. The warm-up zone lies behind the technical area.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1 · recall

  8. The 2025/26 Laws set 0.6-0.9 atm at sea level. Only B, at 0.75, falls inside it.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 2 · applied

  9. The ball is dropped for one player of the team that last touched it, with everyone else at least 2 m away.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 8 · applied

  10. A ball hitting the ceiling gives a kick-in to the opponents of the team that last touched it, at the nearest point on the touch line.

    Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 · applied

Sources

FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025) chapter 2 (History of futsal) for the outline of origins, governance and how the game spread. The detail of dates, names and firsts is general, verifiable futsal history: each question cites a specific real source in its Source line rather than a blanket manual reference. Where 9.4 and 9.5 revisit a tactic or a Law already taught for Levels 1-7 (the 4-0, the flying goalkeeper, the kick-in, accumulated fouls, the four-second rule), the question is framed on the point in history when it changed and why, and cites the source for that change.

  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1512
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 1610
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 127
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 13 (verified for L2 2.2)4
  • FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules" (2020-21 edition)4
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 74
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 14
  • DougReedFutsal, "Why Throw Ins Should Return To Futsal & Other Rule Changes to Enhance the Game"3
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 133
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 33
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 (verified for L1 1.1)3
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 83
  • FutsalFeed, "FIFA updated the futsal rules and we have the summary" (2020-21 edition)2
  • DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"2
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 12 (verified for L2 2.5)2
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Practical Guidelines for Referees2
  • UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"; inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"2
  • inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules"2
  • inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"2
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 (verified for L2 2.5)2
  • Wikipedia, "Futsal"; FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), Ch. 22
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 22
  • Wikipedia, "Futsal" (history of the laws); DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future"1
  • DougReedFutsal, "Futsal – Past, Present & Future"1
  • es.wikipedia, "Fútbol sala"; Argentina Amateur Deporte, "Las diferencias del futsal entre la AMF y la FIFA"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15; inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 15 and 17 (verified for L2 2.3-2.4)1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26; inside.fifa.com, "A crash course in futsal rules"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 15 (verified for L2 2.3)1
  • FIFA Training Centre, "The high-block and high press"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 1 and 13 (verified for L1 1.2, L2 2.2)1
  • inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 3 (verified for L1 1.3)1
  • Wikipedia, "Futsal" (origins and rule sources); FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025), Ch. 21
  • 5-a-side.com, "Futsal Fly Goalkeeper – Rules and Strategy Explained"1
  • General futsal coaching; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7; UEFA.com, "What is futsal? A beginner's guide"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Laws 6 and 7 (verified for L2 2.1, 2.5)1
  • General futsal knowledge1
  • General futsal coaching; inside.fifa.com, "The rules of futsal explained"1
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 61
  • FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 41