Question Number: 22853

Kicks From The Penalty mark 2/22/2010

RE: Competitive Under 16

Penny Williams of Scottsdale, Arizona USA asks...

This concerns penalty kicks to determine te winner of a match. My understanding of the Fifa rule is that 5 players shoot. If there is a tie after 5 players then kicks continue 1 for 1 until one team has a point more than the other team. I was told by a ref that this is no longer true. He said that when there is a tie after 5 shots, new Fifa rules stipulate that 4 more goals will be shot, and if there is still a tie then 3 more goals will be shot. I have searched the Fifa website and cannot find this.
Thanks

Answer provided by Referee Gary Voshol

You can't find it because it's not there. Good for you for not blindly following the ref's misinformation and trying to verify it. Now can you do one more thing? Either tell the ref he was wrong, or find the ref's supervisor (usually assignor, maybe local referee administrator) and tell him the ref was wrong.

Answer provided by Referee Michelle Maloney

The LOTG, under Procedure for Kicks from the Penalty Mark says in pertinent part:

The kicks are taken alternately by the teams
? If, before both teams have taken five kicks, one has scored more goals than
the other could score, even if it were to complete its five kicks, no more
kicks are taken
? If, after both teams have taken five kicks, both have scored the same
number of goals, or have not scored any goals, kicks continue to be taken
in the same order until one team has scored a goal more than the other
from the same number of kicks

Please DO report this referee to the assignor and/or to the state association as he is seriously misinformed.

Answer provided by Referee Dennis Wickham

Your understanding on kicks from the penalty mark is correct.

Answer provided by Referee Joe McHugh

Hi Penny
I wonder sometimes how these plainly wrong opinions come about. I suspect that some discussion took place about what might be a good change to the Law and our referee assumed it was a formal change. FIFA has not changed the Law on KFTPM and your understanding is correct.

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