Question Number: 13587

Law 11 - Offside 8/27/2006

RE: Recreational and competitive Other

Bill Doumouras of Toronto, Ontario Canada asks...

This question is a follow up to question 13366

1. Scenario A: Goaltender A takes the goal kick and the ball goes to forward A who is in an offside position. If the forward scores a goal, does it count?

2. Scenario B: from the goal kick, the ball is deflected off a defender to a forward in an offside position? If he scores a goal, does it count?

Answer provided by Referee Ben Mueller

In both scenarios the goals count. No offside can occur directly from a goal kick.

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Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer

No offside offence is even possible because the ball has not been touched or played by a member of the opponents own team. The moment to even consider offside positions is not present.

Goals count.

Regards,

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Answer provided by Referee Keith Contarino

1. Goal. There is no offside infraction if a teammate receives the ball directly on a goal kick, corner kick or throw-in. 2. Of course. Offside is only judged when the ball is played or touched by a teammate. If it had deflected off a teammate, offside would have reset. Deflecting off an opponent never influences offside.

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