Misconduct

Acts of misconduct fall into two categories:

• Acts resulting in the player being cautioned , indicated by the referee showing the yellow card.

• More serious acts resulting in the player being sent off , indicated by the referee showing the red card.

cautionable ACTS:
Resulting in a formal booking and yellow card (no card is displayed when the caution involves bench personnel other than substitutes).

• Unsporting behavior

• Dissent by word or action

• Persistently infringes the Laws of the Game

• Delays the restart of play

• Fails to respect the required distance at the restart of play

• Enters or re-enters the field of play without the referee's permission

• Leaves the field of play without the permission of the referee

PUNISHMENT:
If the game is stopped for any of these misconducts, the other team receives an indirect free kick. This kick will be taken from the spot of the misconduct in 1-3 and from the spot where the ball was for 4-7.

MISCONDUCT RESULTING IN A PLAYER BEING SENT OFF:
A formal booking indicated by the showing of a red card (no card is displayed when the dismissal involves bench personnel other than substitutes).

• Serious foul play

• Violent conduct

• Spits at an opponent or any other person

• Denies an opponent a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by handling the ball (this does not include the goalkeeper in his own penalty area)

• Denies an opponent moving towards player's goal a goal or an obvious goal scoring opportunity by other penal or technical foul

• Uses offensive, insulting, or abusive language

• Receives a second caution in the same match

PUNISHMENT:
Direct free kick (or penalty kick) if one of the penal offenses; otherwise, if game stopped to administer the booking, an indirect free kick to the offended team from the spot where the infringement occurred. If violent conduct off the field of play, drop ball at spot where ball was when referee stopped play to deal with the misconduct.