Question Number: 17329

Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/15/2007

RE: Under 15

Brittany of Stamford, United Stated of America asks...

Does a handball result in a free indirect kick?

Answer provided by Referee Gary Voshol

Not in most universes. Certainly not in those that recognize the Laws of the Game.

Deliberately handling the ball is a direct free kick offense.

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Answer provided by Referee Richard Dawson

Hi Brittany,
-A ball hitting the hand provides no stoppage of any kind.
-Four specific illegal ball handling actions by a keeper can result in
an INDFK restart as mentioned in law 12 only within the keeper's
own penalty area
- the DFK (direct free kick) offence of handles the ball deliberately is
NEVER an indfk restart, those that do so have misapplied the laws
and created a protestable situation.. If this act occurs inside a player's (not the keeper) own penalty area it is ALWAYS a Penalty Kick (PK)
Cheers

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Answer provided by Referee Steve Montanino

No. See the other answers for more detail, they know of what they write!

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Answer provided by Referee Ben Mueller

Nope a handling the ball deliberatly foul results in a direct free kick. The ball merely hitting the hand means nothing unless the player handled the ball deliberatly.

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