Additional guidance

Violent conduct

9 Sep 2024
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In this section violent conduct is explained, specifically detailing what it takes for a red card to be administered off the ball. 

Considerations

A player who is not challenging for the ball will be sent off if they:

-use or attempt to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent, teammate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made

-deliberately strike an opponent or any other person on the head or face with their hand or arm, unless the force used was negligible

-make a clear forward movement with their head resulting in contact with the head or face of an opponent or any other person, unless the force used was negligible 

-clearly make forceful contact by holding or grabbing the throat/neck area, or gouges the eye of an opponent or any other person

-make a clear action to pull the hair of an opponent or any other person with force

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 
Penalty kicks 
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 
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

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