Laws of the Game 2019/20
A number of changes were approved at the 133rd Annual General Meeting of The IFAB on 2 March this year. The Laws of the Game 2019/20 come into force 1 June 2019. However, competitions which started before 1 June 2019, which is all Football Tasmania 2019 competitions, will delay implementation until the following season.
The updated rules include/
- the introduction of yellow and red cards for misconduct by team officials
- a player being substituted having to leave the field of play at the nearest point on the boundary line
- at a goal kick and a free kick for the defending team in their own penalty area, the ball is in play once it is kicked, i.e. it does not have to leave the penalty area
- clearer wording for ‘handball’
- attacking team players must be at least 1m away from a ‘defensive wall’
- the goalkeeper only has to have one foot on the goal line at a penalty kick
- a new dropped ball procedure
The summary and details of all Law changes can be found here.
The full Laws of the Game 2019/20 are available here for download and are also available as a web version in the ‘Laws’ section on our website: theifab.com