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B7 is injured and is required to leave the field. Team B has no available substitutes and,
therefore, must play short. Several minutes later, B7 has recovered from injury, and the coach
sends B7 to report in. What should happen next? - Answers✔B7 may enter the game at the next
dead ball after reporting to the officials' area and being beckoned by the referee.
The goalkeeper for Team A and a player for Team B collide and the ball goes out of play. The
referee stops the clock to prevent play from continuing but does not beckon the coach or trainer
onto the field for either player. After a moment, the players catch their breath and do not appear
to be injured. The referee then directs the play to be restarted. The referee shall: -
Answers✔Allow the play to be restarted without requiring either player to leave the field as
neither the coach nor the appropriate medical personnel was beckoned onto the field.
B10 is apparently injured. The referee has stopped play and summoned the Team B trainer onto
the field of play. - Answers✔Both coaches may give their teams coaching instructions.
In the second half of a game, the stadium clock/scoreboard malfunctions and is no longer
functioning. How will the time and the score be kept? - Answers✔The head referee will keep the
time and score as no other means are available.
The referee observes a foul, but does not penalize it because the referee perceives an advantage;
however, the advantage does not develop. - Answers✔The referee shall immediately stop play
and penalize the original foul.
The following are duties of the assistant referee during pregame except: - Answers✔Review
specific duties with scorer.
When does an official's jurisdiction over a game end? - Answers✔When the officials leaving the
field of play and its immediate surroundings.
A player is being replaced. Where can the player exit the field? - Answers✔On the bench side of
the field. If benches are on opposite sides, the player must exit toward their own bench.
As play resumes after a goal kick, a fight breaks out on the field next to the visiting bench. The
benches from both teams clear and get involved in the melee. Once order is restored, the referee
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terminates the game. - Answers✔The referee has the authority to terminate or suspend the game
when elements, spectators or other causes require such action.
When a player on Team A commits the team's first foul (accidental tripping) of the game in Team
A's offensive end of the field in a careless manner, the referee shall: - Answers✔Call the foul and
direct the play be restarted with a direct free kick.
Goalkeeper A1 blocks a hard shot on goal by deliberately parrying the ball to the ground. As B11
runs toward the ball, the goalkeeper picks the ball up and punts it up field. The referee should: -
Answers✔Whistle for a foul against the goalkeeper for deliberately parrying the ball and award a
free kick to B11's team
B14 takes a shot on goal, with goalkeeper A1 out of position. A3, however, extends the arm into
the path of the ball, deflecting it to B9. B9 shoots and the ball enters the goal. - Answers✔The
referee should allow the goal and caution A3 for unsporting conduct.
Which one of the following considerations are not part of Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring
Opportunity (DOGSO)? - Answers✔Serious foul play.
Player A2 is running down the field near the touchline uncontested with the ball. After crossing
the half-way line, Player B2 approaches A2 just as A2 moves the ball forward and past B2. The
ball moves out of reach of both players and B2 moves between A2 and the ball. The referee shall:
- Answers✔Rule Player B2 guilty of obstruction and award an indirect free kick to Team A at the
spot of the foul.
The referee disqualifies a coach for leaving the team area, entering the field of play and arguing a
call. - Answers✔The coach must leave the vicinity of the playing area. Refusal to comply shall
result in termination of the game.
When a defender commits a foul against an attacker in their own penalty area which denies an
opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by pulling, pushing or holding, what is the correct
decision? - Answers✔Penalty Kick and disqualify (red card) the defender.
Player A touches the ball forward with a portion of the arm above the armpit. The referee should:
- Answers✔Allow play to continue.
A player on Team B, not the goalkeeper, deliberately handles the ball while trying to stop a shot
by Team A and the ball does not go in the goal. The correct ruling is: - Answers✔The player on
Team B is disqualified (red card) and Team A is given a penalty kick.
During active play, Substitute/Bench player B12, thinking the ball is out of play, enters the field
and receives the ball from a pass from teammate B4. - Answers✔Award Team A a direct free
kick from the point of B12 receiving the ball and caution B12
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B7 is injured and is required to leave the field. Team B has no available substitutes and,
therefore, must play short. Several minutes later, B7 has recovered from injury, and the coach
sends B7 to report in. What should happen next? - Answers✔B7 may enter the game at the next
dead ball after reporting to the officials' area and being beckoned by the referee.
The goalkeeper for Team A and a player for Team B collide and the ball goes out of play. The
referee stops the clock to prevent play from continuing but does not beckon the coach or trainer
onto the field for either player. After a moment, the players catch their breath and do not appear
to be injured. The referee then directs the play to be restarted. The referee shall: -
Answers✔Allow the play to be restarted without requiring either player to leave the field as
neither the coach nor the appropriate medical personnel was beckoned onto the field.
B10 is apparently injured. The referee has stopped play and summoned the Team B trainer onto
the field of play. - Answers✔Both coaches may give their teams coaching instructions.
In the second half of a game, the stadium clock/scoreboard malfunctions and is no longer
functioning. How will the time and the score be kept? - Answers✔The head referee will keep the
time and score as no other means are available.
The referee observes a foul, but does not penalize it because the referee perceives an advantage;
however, the advantage does not develop. - Answers✔The referee shall immediately stop play
and penalize the original foul.
The following are duties of the assistant referee during pregame except: - Answers✔Review
specific duties with scorer.
When does an official's jurisdiction over a game end? - Answers✔When the officials leaving the
field of play and its immediate surroundings.
A player is being replaced. Where can the player exit the field? - Answers✔On the bench side of
the field. If benches are on opposite sides, the player must exit toward their own bench.
As play resumes after a goal kick, a fight breaks out on the field next to the visiting bench. The
benches from both teams clear and get involved in the melee. Once order is restored, the referee
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terminates the game. - Answers✔The referee has the authority to terminate or suspend the game
when elements, spectators or other causes require such action.
When a player on Team A commits the team's first foul (accidental tripping) of the game in Team
A's offensive end of the field in a careless manner, the referee shall: - Answers✔Call the foul and
direct the play be restarted with a direct free kick.
Goalkeeper A1 blocks a hard shot on goal by deliberately parrying the ball to the ground. As B11
runs toward the ball, the goalkeeper picks the ball up and punts it up field. The referee should: -
Answers✔Whistle for a foul against the goalkeeper for deliberately parrying the ball and award a
free kick to B11's team
B14 takes a shot on goal, with goalkeeper A1 out of position. A3, however, extends the arm into
the path of the ball, deflecting it to B9. B9 shoots and the ball enters the goal. - Answers✔The
referee should allow the goal and caution A3 for unsporting conduct.
Which one of the following considerations are not part of Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring
Opportunity (DOGSO)? - Answers✔Serious foul play.
Player A2 is running down the field near the touchline uncontested with the ball. After crossing
the half-way line, Player B2 approaches A2 just as A2 moves the ball forward and past B2. The
ball moves out of reach of both players and B2 moves between A2 and the ball. The referee shall:
- Answers✔Rule Player B2 guilty of obstruction and award an indirect free kick to Team A at the
spot of the foul.
The referee disqualifies a coach for leaving the team area, entering the field of play and arguing a
call. - Answers✔The coach must leave the vicinity of the playing area. Refusal to comply shall
result in termination of the game.
When a defender commits a foul against an attacker in their own penalty area which denies an
opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by pulling, pushing or holding, what is the correct
decision? - Answers✔Penalty Kick and disqualify (red card) the defender.
Player A touches the ball forward with a portion of the arm above the armpit. The referee should:
- Answers✔Allow play to continue.
A player on Team B, not the goalkeeper, deliberately handles the ball while trying to stop a shot
by Team A and the ball does not go in the goal. The correct ruling is: - Answers✔The player on
Team B is disqualified (red card) and Team A is given a penalty kick.
During active play, Substitute/Bench player B12, thinking the ball is out of play, enters the field
and receives the ball from a pass from teammate B4. - Answers✔Award Team A a direct free
kick from the point of B12 receiving the ball and caution B12
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