The 2024/2025 Premier League season will kickoff with new updates, including those for encroachment during penalty kicks.
When the ball is kicked, if a player has a foot on the penalty area line, which includes the 'arc', they are encroaching.
To be penalised for encroachment, the player must have a material impact on the outcome of the kick. For example, this could be when a defender who encroaches clearly prevents a goal from being scored or impacts the ability of an opponent to play the ball.
If the encroaching player has no impact, there is no offence.
| Penalty kick resulting in goal | Penalty kick resulting in no goal | |
| Encroachment by an attacking player | -If impact: penalty is retaken -If no imapct: goal stands |
-If impact: indirect free kick to defending team -If no impact: no retake |
| Encroachment by a defending player | -If impact: goal stands -If no impact: goal stands |
-If impact: penalty is retaken -If no impact: no retake |
| Encroachment by attacking and defending players | -If impact: penalty is retaken If no impact: goal stands |
-If impact penalty is retaken -If no impact: no retake |
Position of the goalkeeper
When the ball is kicked, the defending goalkeeper must have at least part of one foot touching, in line with, or behind, the goal line.
If the goalkeeper saves the penalty and does not have at least part of one foot touching, in line with, or behind, the goal line at them moment the ball is kicked, the penalty must be retaken.
Contents:
VAR
VAR Improvement Plan
Decision-making process
What VAR cannot do
Threshold for VAR intervention
Attacking Possession Phase
Semi-Automated Offside Technology
Participant Behaviour Charter
Context for Change
Core Principles
Regulatory
Updates for Season 2024/25
Effective Playing Time – Allowance for time lost
Effective Playing Time – Calculation of Additional Time
Effective Playing Time – Delaying the restart
Effective Playing Time – Managing momentum
Handball – Interpretation
Holding
Blocking
Denying a goal or an obvious goal scoring opportunity
IFAB Trial
Additional Guidance
Decision-making principles
Offside – Delaying the flag
Offside – Deliberate play
Offside – Interference
Handball – Definition of the hand/arm
Handball – Accidental handball before a goal is scored
Serious foul play
Violent conduct
High foot challenges
Challenges on Goalkeepers
Matchday Protocols
Multiball protocol
Substitutes warm up protocol
Concussion substitutions
Pre-match warm up protocols
Post-match warm down protocols
