Law 13: Attack Hit

Any action directing the ball towards the opponents is an attack hit, apart from the service and the block.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.1 · recall

A tip is legal provided the ball is cleanly hit rather than caught or thrown.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.2 · recall

Completion comes when the ball has completely crossed the vertical plane of the net or is touched by an opponent.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.3 · recall

Front-row players may attack at any height provided the contact is within their own playing space.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.1 · recall

At take-off the back-row player's feet must neither touch nor cross the attack line.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.2 · recall

Having hit legally, the back-row player is allowed to land within the front zone.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.2.2 · recall

Any ball moving towards the opponents is an attack hit, so with no team-mate able to play it the block is legal.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.1, 14.3; Casebook 2024 3.33 · applied

Only in C is the foot fully behind the attack line; A and B touch it and D is in the front zone.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.2.1 · applied

The attack hit is only completed once the ball has crossed the net or an opponent has touched it.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.3 · recall

The front zone lies between the centre line and the attack line; a back-row attacker takes off behind that line.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 1.4.1, 13.2.2 · recall

From the front zone a back-row player may attack only a ball that is partly lower than the top of the net.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.3, 13.3.3 · recall

If part of the ball is lower than the top of the net at contact, the attack from the front zone is legal.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.3 · applied

Completing an attack hit on the opponent's service in the front zone, with the ball wholly above the net, is a fault for any player.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.4, 13.3.4 · recall

The ban covers serves attacked in the front zone; a contact made behind the attack line is legal.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.3.4; Casebook 2024 3.35 · applied

A Libero's attack hit is a fault only when the ball is entirely higher than the top of the net at contact.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.3.5 · applied

An attack completed from higher than the net on a Libero's overhand finger pass in the front zone is a fault.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.3.6 · recall

The ball neither crossed the net nor touched a blocker, so the attack hit was not completed and play goes on.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.3, 13.3.3; Casebook 2024 3.34 · applied

Only in B is part of the ball below the top of the net; in the others the whole ball is above it.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.2.3, 13.3.3 · applied

The set became an attack hit when it was completed by the block, so it is an illegal attack by a back-row player.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.1.3, 13.3.3; Casebook 2024 3.32 · applied

The fault exists once the attack hit is completed: the ball crosses the net or touches an opponent.

Source: FIVB OVR 2025-2028, Rule 13.3.6 · applied