Laws of the game quiz

Thank you for taking the time to complete our Laws of the Game Quiz, our aim is to highlight the abuse that match officials often receive.

We have intentionally used the language and tone that spectators and players choose to direct at match officials when they are not happy or don’t agree with a decision.

Match officials are human and make mistakes too! If you find this language confronting, then ask yourself have I ever addressed a match official the same way or stood by as someone else has?

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* 1. A player, not the goalkeeper, unsuccessfully tries to prevent a goal by deliberately handling the ball. What decision should the referee make?

Award the goal and the player must be cautioned for unsporting behaviour.

Award the goal and the player may be cautioned for showing a lack of respect for the game.

Award the penalty and send off the player for attempting to deny a goal.

Award the goal. No further sanction is required.

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* 2. When the ball is in play, a player leaves the field of play and strikes a team official who has been insulting him in the opposing technical area. What decision should the referee make?

The referee applies advantage if there is a clear goal scoring opportunity. If not, he stops play, sends off the player for violent conduct and restarts play with an indirect free kick.

The referee stops play immediately and sends off the player for violent conduct. Play is restarted with a direct free kick on the boundary line nearest to where the offence occurred.

The referee stops play immediately and sends off the player for violent conduct. Play is restarted with a direct free kick on the boundary line nearest to where the offence occurred. The referee also sends off the team official by showing them a red card.

The referee allows play to continue and during the next stoppage in play sends the player off for violent conduct. Play is restarted according to the previous decision.

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* 3. A player is in an offside position and he is already playing or attempting to play the ball, or challenging an opponent for the ball. He is then held by an opponent. The referee...

Penalises the holding offence because both offences occurred at the same time and holding is the more serious offence.

Penalises the offside offence as it occurred before the holding offence.

Penalises the holding offence as it occurred before the offside offence.

None of the answers are completely correct.

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* 4. If a player is guilty of dissent, using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures or other verbal offences...

The referee awards a direct free kick.

The referee awards an indirect free kick.

The referee awards a direct free kick or penalty kick.

The referee awards a dropped ball.

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* 5. A player in an offside position, at the moment the ball ls played by a teammate, runs back to her own half of the field and interferes with play. Where will the restart be taken?

From the place where she touched the ball in her own half of the field of play.

From the place where she was when her team-mate played or touched the ball.

From the place where the teammate played the ball.

None of the above answers are correct.

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* 6. If at a penalty kick both the kicker and the goalkeeper commit an offence at the same time and the kick Is missed or saved, what action does the referee take?

The kick is retaken.

Both players are cautioned and the kick is retaken.

The kicker is cautioned and play is restarted with an indirect free kick to the defending team.

Play is allowed to continue.

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* 7. When celebrating a goal, a player must be cautioned If they:

Remove their shirt or cover their head with their shirt.

Approach the spectators in a manner which causes safety and/or security issues.

Leave the field of play to celebrate with supporters in the crowd.

Answers A & Bare correct.

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* 8. A defender uses a deliberate trick to pass the ball to the goalkeeper with his head after lifting it with his foot, to circumvent the Law. What decision should the referee make?

The referee allows play to continue and waits to see whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with his hands.

The referee cautions the goalkeeper for unsporting behaviour and awards an indirect free kick to the opposing team from the position where the goalkeeper touched the ball.

The referee cautions the defender for unsporting behaviour and awards a direct free kick to the opposing team from the position where the deliberate trick occurred.

The referee cautions the defender for unsporting behaviour and awards an indirect free kick to the opposing team from the position where the deliberate trick occurred.

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* 9. A free kick is taken quickly. An opponent who is six metres away deliberately intercepts the ball. The referee...

Allows play to continue

Orders the free kick to be retaken because the opponent was less than 9.15 metres from the ball

Cautions the opponent for delaying the restart and orders the free kick to be retaken

Cautions the opponent for failing to respect the required distance and orders the free kick to be retaken.

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* 10. Player A6 was replaced by A15 while the ball was out of play for a corner kick to team A. Can A15 take that corner kick to restart play?

Yes, but only at the referee's discretion

Yes, the substitution is completed when A15 enters the field of play; from that moment, A6 becomes the substituted player and A15 becomes a player and can take any restart

None of the answers are correct