WHAT IS A TECHNICAL OFFICIAL?

As in most sporting competitions, football or soccer employs officials in order to control the flow of the game

and enforce the rules.

RefereesLinesman

The Fourth Officials

Referee

The most important official.

He carries a whistle and he uses it to signal the starts and stops of play. Those include kickoff, half-time, full-time, goals, and fouls.

Referee

*Give yellow and red card.

*Control the whole game.

Linesmen

*they patrol the length of the touch line between the halfway line and one goal line.

*They each carry a brightly-colored flag and use it to signal when the ball has left the pitch either for a throw-in, a goal kick, or a corner kick.

Linesmen

also wave their flags to catch the referee’s attention if they believe they have spotted a foul.

Finally, it is also the linesman’s responsibility to signal when an attacking player is in an offside position by raising his flag.

The Fourth Official

Keeps track of all the stoppages during the game. And, at the end of each half, he informs the players how much time will be added on to make up for them by flashing a number on a board.

The Fourth Official

*In charge of verifying substitutions.

*Coordinate with the referee.

Rules and Regulations

*The match lasts two equal periods of 45 minutes, unless otherwise mutually agreed between the referee and the two teams.

Allowance

• substitutions

• assessment of injury to players

• removal of injured players from the fi eld of play for treatment

• wasting time

• any other cause

A kick-off is a way of starting or restarting play:

• at the start of the match• after a goal has been scored• at the start of the second half of the match

• at the start of each period of extra time, where applicable

A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:

• kicks or attempts to kick an opponent

• trips or attempts to trip an opponent

• jumps at an opponent

• charges an opponent

• strikes or attempts to strike an opponent

• pushes an opponent

• tackles an opponent

Penalty Kick

*A penalty kick is awarded if any of the above ten offences is committed by a player inside his own penalty area, irrespective of the position of the ball, provided it is in play.

Throw in

A throw-in is a method of restarting play.

A throw-in is awarded to the opponents of the player who last touched the ball

when the whole of the ball crosses the touch line, either on the ground or in the air.

A goal cannot be scored directly from a throw-in.

A throw-in is a method of restarting play.A throw-in is awarded to the opponents of the player who last touched the ballwhen the whole of the ball crosses the touch line, either on the ground or inthe air.A goal cannot be scored directly from a throw-in.

Goal Kick

*A goal kick is awarded when the whole of the ball passes over the goal line, either on the ground or in the air, having last touched a player of the attacking team.

Corner Kick

*A corner kick is awarded when the whole of the ball passes over the goal line, either on the ground or in the air, having last touched a player of the defending team, and a goal is not scored in accordance with Law 10.

A goal may be scored directly from a corner kick, but only against the opposing team.