Laws of the play

With the Football, the laws of the play (or laws of football ) is the name given to the rules of the game of the Football. They are decided on the level of the International Football Association Board (IFAB); the last version goes back to 2000. The International federation of football association, represented within the IFAB with parity with representatives of the the United Kingdom, day before with their uniform application in the world and on the level of the various competitions and categories of age.

17 rules

The rules are seventeen and relate to each one a specific aspect of the play:

One refers sometimes, in a pleasant way, with the Loi 18: Common direction or spirit of the play : it is a question for a referee of interpreting the 17 laws so as to preserve the spirit of the play; this one being more important than the letter.

History

Institutional framework

The first official rules were written by Ebenezer Cobb Morley before being approved by the Fédération of England of football the December 8th 1883, shortly after its creation the October 26th of the same year. IFAB was created the December 6th 1882 on Scottish agreement of the federations, Welsh, north-Irish and English in order to unify the Laws of the play. During the creation of FIFA to Paris in 1904, it was stipulated at once that the international association would adhere to the rules enacted by the IFAB; since 1913, because of the increasing international popularity of the sport, the IFAB it admits in its center of the representations of the FIFA. Today the IFAB is thus composed of eight members, four representatives of the FIFA and four of the the United Kingdom, namely one by federation.

Development of the rules of the game

Arbitration

At the beginnings of football, the Fair play stipulated that the players making a fault announce it themselves; the match proceeded in the absence of referee on the ground and the decisions were caught by joint agreement of the captains of the teams. In 1872, it was decided that each team could call upon a umpire located on the ground, jointly making decisions in the event of dissension between the players. They quickly gain the right to grant frank blows then to expel a player. Towards 1880 a referee located in platform starts to be employed in the event of dissension between umpires . The application of the payment was then entrusted to an arbitration body located on the ground in 1891. Today, this arbitration body consists of a referee of field as of two referees of key. In professional environment, a fourth referee is generally present to ensure a replacement in the event of wound of the one of the three others; he is also that which checks the changes of player.

Penalty

Absent from the rules in the beginning, the kick of repair punishes certain faults made in the Penalty area since 1891

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