UGAAR Football Penalties:
- All of the following fouls (“Technical”) will also result in a penalty/free kick at the spot of the foul (or at the penalty mark if inside the combined goal/penalty areas):
(a) Changing hands: Throwing the ball from your right hand to left or vice versa
(b) Going 16yds/15m without releasing (i.e. bouncing or soloing) the ball.
(c) Not disposing of the ball correctly by using a handball or a kick.
(d) Hand passing a goal or behind outside of the goal area.
(e) Picking the ball directly off the ground if on their knees.
(f) Lying on the ball.
(g) Throwing the ball (it may be "hand-balled" by striking with the fist or “hand-passed” by striking with the palm).
(h) Entering the center circle before the ball is bounced at the restart of play.
(i) Kicking the ball over the boundary line without it bouncing first or being touched by another player,
(j) Deliberately forcing or taking the ball over the boundary line,
(k) Kicking the ball out of bounds (Only if the ball did not bounce and was not touched).
(l) Running more than 15 meters / 16 yards without bouncing the ball or touching the ball on the ground.
(m) Offsides - When a team has ether 1) more than 7 players are allowed in each team's either half of the field, 2) more than 1 player in either the Goal or Penalty Areas at any time, or 3) more than 2 players in the combined Goal/Penalty Areas at any time. - All of the following fouls (“Mildly Aggressive”) will also result in both a yellow card & a penalty/free kick 10m from the spot of the foul (or at the penalty mark if inside the combined goal/penalty areas):
(a) Arguing with, disputing the decision of an umpire (example = show dissent with the referee's decision to award a free kick to the opposing team).
(b) Failing to comply with an umpire’s instruction to use a mouth guard.
(c) Failing to return the ball quickly and on the full to a player who has been awarded a free kick.
(d) Wasting time, deliberately or inadvertently, by kicking the ball forward after one's team has conceded a free kick.
(e) Running over the mark - The man standing on the mark cannot move forward, and must respond if called to recede by the umpire.
(f) Running through the mark - Other defensive players who are not standing on the mark may not run across the imaginary line between the man standing the mark and the man taking the kick, unless following his direct opponent.
(g) Entering the protected zone - Defensive players may not impede an opponent by entering or remaining within the corridor of space extending 10m (or 11yd) either side of the imaginary line between the man standing the mark and the man taking the kick, and extending backwards, unless following his direct opponent. - All of the following fouls (“Very Aggressive”) will also result in both a black card & a penalty/free kick 15m from the spot of the foul (or at the penalty mark if inside the combined goal/penalty areas):
(a) Performing a sliding tackle on an opponent while the ball is not on the ground.
(b) Blocking a shot with the foot.
(c) Pushing an opponent.
(d) Jumping at an opponent when the ball is not in the air.
(e) Grabs the opponent with the ball above the shoulder or below the knees.
(f) Using both hands to tackle.
(g) Wrestling the ball from an opponent's hands.
(h) Deliberately pulling down an opponent.
(i) Deliberately tripping an opponent with hand, arm or foot.
(j) Interferes with an opponent attempting to mark in the air by punching or bumping.
(k) Deliberately taking, hacking or chopping the arms while they are attempting to mark a ball.
(l) Deliberately body collide with an opponent after he has played the ball away or for the purpose of taking him out of the movement of play.
(m) Shepherds/bumps an opponent other than the ball carrier (or any player not within 5m of the ball if no one has possession).
(n) Using abusive or provocative language or gestures towards either players or umpires.
(o) Remonstrating in an aggressive manner with a match official.
(p) Any free kick resulting from an interchange infringement or a line-up has an additional 10-metre penalty applied to it; these are the only circumstances under which a 20-metre penalty is automatically applied to a free kick without further infringement. - All of the following fouls (“Extremely Aggressive”) will also result in both a red card & a penalty/free kick 20m from the spot of the foul (or at the penalty mark if inside the combined goal/penalty areas):
(a) Refusing to leave the field of play, on the instruction of the umpire, for attention, after an injury involving bleeding.
(b) Refusing to leave the field of play when ordered off (red card) or rejoin the game after being ordered off.
(c) Tackling an opponent.
(d) Kicking and/or striking an opponent.
(e) Spitting at an opponent.
(f) Deliberately making forceful front-on contact with an opponent in a marking contest (only if they are not simultaneously attempting to mark or spoil the ball),
(g) Deliberately making high contact (unless such contact is incidental to attempting to mark or spoil the ball).
(h) Scragging the player who has taken a mark (i.e. to tackle the player or impede him from taking the kick as quickly as he would like).
(i) Using unnecessary roughness against a player who has already taken a mark.