Law 5 of football: the referee

The article Law 5 of football: the referee states the law 5 of football and presents various considerations relative to this law. Law 5 refers to the referee.

With the Football, the laws of football is the name given to the rules of the game of football. They are decided on the level of the International Football Association Board (IFAB); the last version goes back to 2000.

Authority of the referee

Each match disputes under the control of a referee having all the authority necessary to take care of the application of the Laws of the Play within the framework of the match which it has to direct.

Competences and obligations

The referee must:

to take care of the application of all the Laws of the Play,

to ensure the control of the match in collaboration with the referees assistants and, if necessary, with the fourth official one,

to make sure that the balloon satisfied the requirements of Law 2,

to make sure that the equipment of the players satisfy the requirements with Law 4,

to provide the function of time clerk and to write a report/ratio on the match,

to stop the match temporarily, to suspend it or stop it definitively, with its discretion, each infringement with the Laws,

to stop the match temporarily, definitively to suspend it or stop it because of the interference of external events, whatever they are,

to stop the match if he considers that a player is seriously wounded and to make sure that the player is carried out of the playing field. A wounded player will be able to turn over on the playing field only once the match will have begun again.

to let the play continue until the balloon ceased being concerned, so in its opinion, a player is only slightly wounded,

to make so that any suffering player of a wound which bleeds leaves the playing field. The player will be able to return there only on one sign of the referee after this one secured that the bleeding stopped,

to let the play continue when the team against whom a fault was made can draw an advantage from it, and sanction the fault made initially if the discounted advantage does not intervene,

to sanction the most serious fault when a player makes simultaneously several faults,

to take disciplinary measures against any player having made a fault liable to warning or exclusion. The referee is not held to react immediately, but must do it at the time of the next interruption of play,

to take measures against the official ones of the team which do not have a responsible behavior and, with her discretion, to expel those of the playing field and its immediate surroundings,

to intervene on indication of the referees assistants with regard to the incidents which it could not note itself,

to make so that no person not - authorized does not penetrate on the playing field,

to give the signal of the resumption of the match after an interruption of the play,

to submit to the competent authorities a report consigning the relative informations to any disciplinary measure which it took against players and/or to official, like any other incident which has occurred front, during or after the match.

Decisions of the referee

The decisions of the referee on the facts in relation to the play are without call. However, provided the play did not begin again, the referee can reconsider his decision if it realizes that this one is incorrect or, with its discretion, following an opinion of an assisting referee.

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