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class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Direct free kick / penalty kick </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Direct_free_kick_/_penalty_kick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indirect_free_kick" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indirect_free_kick"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Indirect free kick </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Indirect_free_kick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 History </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-History-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle History subsection </button> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Before_1863" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Before_1863"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Before 1863 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Before_1863-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Fair_catch" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fair_catch"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1.1 Fair catch </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fair_catch-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Touch-down" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Touch-down"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1.2 Touch-down </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Touch-down-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-After_an_offence_by_the_opposition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#After_an_offence_by_the_opposition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1.3 After an offence by the opposition </div> </a> <ul id="toc-After_an_offence_by_the_opposition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Summary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Summary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1.4 Summary </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Summary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_1863_FA_Rules" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_1863_FA_Rules"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 The 1863 FA Rules </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_1863_FA_Rules-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Abolition_(1866–1872)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Abolition_(1866–1872)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.3 Abolition (1866–1872) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Abolition_(1866–1872)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reintroduction_(1872–1873)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reintroduction_(1872–1873)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.4 Reintroduction (1872–1873) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reintroduction_(1872–1873)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subsequent_developments" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subsequent_developments"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5 Subsequent developments </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subsequent_developments-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Position_of_opponents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Position_of_opponents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.1 Position of opponents </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Position_of_opponents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Position_of_teammates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Position_of_teammates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.2 Position of teammates </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Position_of_teammates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Putting_the_ball_into_play" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Putting_the_ball_into_play"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.3 Putting the ball into play </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Putting_the_ball_into_play-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Method_of_kicking" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Method_of_kicking"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.4 Method of kicking </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Method_of_kicking-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dribbling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dribbling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.5 Dribbling </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dribbling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scoring_a_goal_directly" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scoring_a_goal_directly"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.6 Scoring a goal directly </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scoring_a_goal_directly-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awarded_within_the_goal_area" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awarded_within_the_goal_area"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.7 Awarded within the goal area </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awarded_within_the_goal_area-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Remedy_for_infringements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Remedy_for_infringements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.8 Remedy for infringements </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Remedy_for_infringements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offside_from_a_free_kick" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offside_from_a_free_kick"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.9 Offside from a free kick </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offside_from_a_free_kick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offences_for_which_the_kick_was_awarded" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offences_for_which_the_kick_was_awarded"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10 Offences for which the kick was awarded </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offences_for_which_the_kick_was_awarded-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Illegal_handling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Illegal_handling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10.1 Illegal handling </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Illegal_handling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foul_play" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foul_play"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10.2 Foul play </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foul_play-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Disciplinary_offences_/_misconduct" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Disciplinary_offences_/_misconduct"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10.3 Disciplinary offences / misconduct </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Disciplinary_offences_/_misconduct-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offences_at_the_restart_of_play" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offences_at_the_restart_of_play"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10.4 Offences at the restart of play </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offences_at_the_restart_of_play-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offside" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offside"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5.10.5 Offside </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offside-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Summary_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Summary_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.6 Summary </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Summary_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" 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Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Tendangan bébas (sépakbola)" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D1%96_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D1%9E%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B_(%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB)" title="Штрафны і вольны ўдары (футбол) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Штрафны і вольны ўдары (футбол)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%BA_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Пряк свободен удар – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Пряк свободен удар" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tir_lliure_(futbol)" title="Tir lliure (futbol) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Tir lliure (futbol)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frispark_(fodbold)" title="Frispark (fodbold) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Frispark (fodbold)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/FC_Versailles_78_v._AS_Nancy-Lorraine_%28Championnat_National%29_-_24e_journ%C3%A9e_-_Stade_Jean-Bouin_%28Paris_XVI%2C_FR75%29_-_08-03-2024_157.webm/FC_Versailles_78_v._AS_Nancy-Lorraine_%28Championnat_National%29_-_24e_journ%C3%A9e_-_Stade_Jean-Bouin_%28Paris_XVI%2C_FR75%29_-_08-03-2024_157.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/FC_Versailles_78_v._AS_Nancy-Lorraine_%28Championnat_National%29_-_24e_journ%C3%A9e_-_Stade_Jean-Bouin_%28Paris_XVI%2C_FR75%29_-_08-03-2024_157.webm/FC_Versailles_78_v._AS_Nancy-Lorraine_%28Championnat_National%29_-_24e_journ%C3%A9e_-_Stade_Jean-Bouin_%28Paris_XVI%2C_FR75%29_-_08-03-2024_157.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video><figcaption>A direct free kick scored by FC Versailles</figcaption></figure> A free kick is a method of restarting play in <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a>. It is awarded after an infringement of the <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(association_football)" title="Laws of the Game (association football)">laws</a> by the opposing team. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Direct_and_indirect_free_kicks">Direct and indirect free kicks</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Direct and indirect free kicks">edit</a>]</div> Free kicks may be either direct or indirect, distinguished as follows: <ul><li>An attacking goal may be scored directly from a direct free kick, but not from an indirect free kick.</li> <li>Direct free kicks are awarded for more serious offences (<a href="/wiki/Fouls_and_misconduct_(association_football)" title="Fouls and misconduct (association football)">handball</a> and most types of foul play – see <a href="#Offences_for_which_the_free_kick_is_awarded">below</a> for a complete list), while indirect free kicks are awarded for less serious offences.</li> <li>A direct free kick cannot be awarded in the offending team's <a href="/wiki/Penalty_area" title="Penalty area">penalty area</a>: if a team in its own penalty area commits an offence normally punished by a direct free kick, a <a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">penalty kick</a> is awarded instead. An indirect free kick may be awarded for an offence committed anywhere.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Procedure">Procedure</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Procedure">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg/170px-Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg/255px-Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg/340px-Van_Persie_free_kick.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1512" data-file-height="2268" /></a><figcaption>Often several players (<a href="/wiki/Arsenal_F.C." title="Arsenal F.C.">red</a>) will line up for a free kick, so as to mask their intentions to the defending team (<a href="/wiki/Everton_F.C." title="Everton F.C.">blue</a>).</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Signal">Signal</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Signal">edit</a>]</div> The referee signals an indirect free kick by raising the arm vertically above the head; a direct free kick is signaled by extending the arm horizontally.<a href="#cite_note-signal-1">[1]</a> A popular method for identifying the different signals is that, for indirect free kicks, the referee holds his hand above his head, creating the letter "I", for an indirect free kick.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Location">Location</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Location">edit</a>]</div> The free kick is taken from the place where the infringement occurred, with the following exceptions: <ul><li>if the offence was within the kicking team's own <a href="/wiki/Football_pitch#Penalty_and_goal_areas" title="Football pitch">goal area</a>, the free kick may be taken from anywhere within the goal area.</li> <li>if an indirect free kick is awarded for an offence within the offending team's own goal area, the kick is taken from the nearest point on the goal area line which runs parallel to the goal line.</li> <li>if the offence took place outside the field of play, the free kick is taken from the boundary line nearest to where the offence occurred.</li> <li>for certain technical offences (a substitute starts a match without the <a href="/wiki/Referee_(association_football)" title="Referee (association football)">referee</a> being informed; a player or team official enters the playing area without the referee's permission but without interfering with the game) play is started with an indirect free kick from the place where the ball was when play stopped.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kick">Kick</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Kick">edit</a>]</div> The ball must be stationary and on the ground. Opponents must be at least 9.15 m (10 yards) from the ball until it is in play, unless they are on their own goal-line between the goal-posts. If the free kick is taken from within the kicking team's penalty area, opponents must be outside the penalty area. If the defending team forms a "wall" of three or more players, all attacking players must be at least 1 m (1 yard) from the wall until the ball is in play. The ball becomes in play as soon as it is kicked and clearly moves.<a href="#cite_note-changes_2019-3">[3]</a> The ball must be kicked (a goalkeeper may not pick up the ball). A free kick can be taken by lifting the ball with a foot or both feet simultaneously. It is legal to feint to take a free kick to confuse opponents. (This distinguishes the free kick from the <a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick_(association_football)" title="Penalty kick (association football)">penalty kick</a>, where feinting is illegal once the run-up has been completed).<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> A player may be penalised for an <a href="/wiki/Offside_(association_football)" title="Offside (association football)">offside offence</a> from a free-kick. This distinguishes the free-kick from most other methods of restarting the game, from which it is not possible for a player to commit an offside offence. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scoring_a_goal_directly_from_a_free_kick">Scoring a goal directly from a free kick</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Scoring a goal directly from a free kick">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable" style="center;text-align: center; table-layout: fixed;"> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="2">Ball goes directly into </td> <td colspan="2">Type of free kick </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%">Direct </td> <td style="width: 30%">Indirect </td></tr> <tr> <td>Opponents' goal </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Goal scored </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">Goal-kick to opponents </td></tr> <tr> <td>Own goal </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">Corner-kick to opponents </td></tr> </tbody></table> A goal may be scored directly from a direct free kick against the opposing side. A goal may not be scored directly from an indirect free kick, and an <a href="/wiki/Own_goal" title="Own goal">own goal</a> may not be scored directly from any free kick. If the ball goes directly into the opposing team's goal from an indirect free kick, a <a href="/wiki/Goal_kick" title="Goal kick">goal kick</a> is awarded to the opposing team. If the ball goes directly into the kicking team's own goal, a <a href="/wiki/Corner_kick" title="Corner kick">corner kick</a> is awarded to the opposing team.<a href="#cite_note-FIFALotG-5">[5]</a> When an indirect free kick has been awarded, the referee must maintain the vertically raised arm until the kick has been taken and the ball touches another player, goes out of play, or it is clear that a goal cannot be scored directly. If the referee fails to signal that the free kick is indirect, and the ball goes directly into the opponents' goal, the kick must be retaken.<a href="#cite_note-signal-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infringements_and_sanctions">Infringements and sanctions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Infringements and sanctions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_(15554013624).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg/191px-Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="191" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg/287px-Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg/382px-Spurs_5_Chelsea_3_%2815554013624%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3413" data-file-height="3413" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Vanishing_spray" title="Vanishing spray">Vanishing spray</a> has been utilised in recent years to indicate the minimum distance for free kicks.</figcaption></figure> If the ball is moving, or in the wrong place, the kick is retaken. A player who takes a free kick from the wrong position in order to force a retake, or who excessively delays the restart of play, is cautioned. If an opponent is less than 9.15 m (10 yards) from the spot where the kick is taken, the kick is re-taken unless the kicking team chooses to take a "quick free kick" before opponents have been able to retreat the required distance. An opponent also may be cautioned (yellow card) for failing to retreat 9.15 m (10 yards),<a href="#cite_note-FIFALotG-5">[5]</a> or for deliberately preventing a quick free kick from being taken. If the kicker touches the ball a second time before it has touched another player, an indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team, unless this second touch is an illegal handball offence, in which case a direct free kick or penalty kick is awarded. If an attacking player stands within 1 m (1 yard) of a "wall" of 3 or more defending players, an indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team.<a href="#cite_note-changes_2019-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quick_free_kick">Quick free kick</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Quick free kick">edit</a>]</div> A team may choose to take a "quick" free kick, that is, take the kick while opponents are within the 9.15-metre (10-yard) minimum required distance. This is usually done for some tactical reason, such as surprising the defence or taking advantage of their poor positioning. The referee has full discretion on whether to allow a quick free kick, and all other rules on free kicks still apply. However, in taking a quick free kick the kicking team waives their entitlement to retake the kick if an opponent who was within 9.15 m (10 yards) intercepts the ball.<a href="#cite_note-FIFALotG-5">[5]</a> Football governing bodies may provide further instruction to referees on administering quick free kicks; for example, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Soccer_Federation" title="United States Soccer Federation">United States Soccer Federation</a> advises that referees should not allow a quick free kick if a card is shown prior to the restart, if a trainer has to enter the field to attend to an injured player, if the kicking team requests enforcement of the 10-yard (9.15 m) rule, or if the referee needs to slow the pace of the match (e.g., to talk to a player).<a href="#cite_note-USSFadvisory-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scoring_opportunities">Scoring opportunities</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Scoring opportunities">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg/200px-Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg/300px-Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg/400px-Finkler_2015_FFA_Cup_Victory_Adelaide.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1868" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Guilherme_Finkler" title="Guilherme Finkler">Guilherme Finkler</a> (blue, no. 7) attempts to score from a direct free kick for <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Victory_FC" title="Melbourne Victory FC">Melbourne Victory FC</a></figcaption></figure> Direct free kicks awarded near the opponent's goal can often lead to scoring opportunities, either from the kick itself or from an ensuing <a href="/wiki/Set_piece_(football)" title="Set piece (football)">set piece</a>. Accordingly, developing plays from free kicks are an important part of team strategy, and defending against them is an important skill for defenders. There are various techniques used with direct free kicks.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The player taking the direct free kick may choose to strike the ball with as much force as possible, usually with the laces of the boot. Alternatively, players may attempt to <a href="/wiki/Curl_(football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Curl (football)">curl</a> the ball around the keeper or the wall, with the inside or outside the boot. Additionally, certain free-kick specialists will choose to kick the ball with minimal spin, making the ball behave unpredictably in the air (similar to the action of a <a href="/wiki/Knuckleball" title="Knuckleball">knuckleball</a> pitch in baseball). The kicker may also attempt to drive the shot under the wall formed by the opposition defenders using the inside of their boot in a passing manner. Free kick takers may also attempt to cross the ball to their centre-backs or strikers to get a header on goal, since they usually are the tallest members of the team, especially if the position of the free kick is close to the wings. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Strategy">Strategy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Strategy">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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The strategy may be to score a goal directly from the free kick, or to use the free kick as the beginning of a <a href="/wiki/Set_piece_(football)" title="Set piece (football)">set piece</a> leading towards a goal scoring opportunity. The kicking team may have more than one player line up behind the ball, run up to the ball, and/or feint a kick in order to confuse or deceive the defence as to their intentions; this is usually legal as long as no other infringements occur. Where there is a potential for a shot on goal to occur from a direct free kick, often the defending side will erect a "wall" of players standing side by side as a barrier to the shot. The number of players composing the wall varies based on distance and strategy. The wall is typically positioned to screen the area of the near side post, while the far side post is normally referred to as the primary responsibility of the goalkeeper, which is why the goalkeeper is often positioned further towards the far side post than the near side post after forming a wall. Beginning in the 2020s teams often choose to deploy a player to lie behind the wall, to prevent the free kick taker kicking the ball below the wall when the defenders jump anticipating a kick over the top. Colloquially this role has become known as a 'draught excluder'. A kicker who has the skill to <a href="/wiki/Magnus_effect" title="Magnus effect">curl the ball around a wall</a> is at a distinct advantage. Since 2000, referees at the highest levels of football have used <a href="/wiki/Vanishing_spray" title="Vanishing spray">vanishing spray</a> to enforce the 9.15-metre (10-yard) minimum required distance for the wall; referees without vanishing spray may indicate the minimum distance verbally and/or with hand gestures. In 2019, Law 13 was changed to require attacking players to maintain a minimum 1-metre (1-yard) distance from a defensive "wall" until the ball is in play.<a href="#cite_note-changes_2019-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Offences_for_which_the_free_kick_is_awarded">Offences for which the free kick is awarded</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Offences for which the free kick is awarded">edit</a>]</div> The following are the offences punishable by a free kick in the 2019 Laws of the Game. A free kick may be awarded only for an offence committed while the ball is in play, or at a restart of play.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> If an offence is committed in any other circumstance, the offending player may be punished with disciplinary action, but play restarts in the same manner it would have restarted without the offence.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Direct_free_kick_/_penalty_kick">Direct free kick / penalty kick</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Direct free kick / penalty kick">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>handball (except for the goalkeeper within the penalty area)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_103-9">[9]</a></li> <li>a player commits any of the following acts against an opponent in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force:<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_103-9">[9]</a> <ul><li>charges</li> <li>jumps at</li> <li>kicks or attempts to kick</li> <li>pushes</li> <li>strikes or attempts to strike (including head-butt)</li> <li>tackles or challenges</li> <li>trips or attempts to trip</li></ul></li> <li>holding an opponent<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_104-10">[10]</a></li> <li>impeding an opponent with contact<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_104-10">[10]</a></li> <li>biting or spitting at someone<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_104-10">[10]</a></li> <li>throwing an object at the ball, an opponent or a match official, or making contact with the ball with a held object<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_104-10">[10]</a></li> <li>any physical offence, if committed within the field of play while the ball is in play, against a team-mate, substitute, substituted or sent-off player, team official or a match official<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_114-11">[11]</a></li> <li>a player who requires the referee's permission to re-enter the field of play, substitute, substituted player, sent-off player, or team official performs one of the following acts: <ul><li>enters the field of play without the referee's permission, and interferes with play<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_53-12">[12]</a></li> <li>is on the field of play without the referee's permission while that person's team scores a goal (the goal is disallowed)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_54-13">[13]</a></li> <li>throws or kicks an object onto the field of play, if the object interferes with play, an opponent, or a match official.<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_115-14">[14]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indirect_free_kick">Indirect free kick</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Indirect free kick">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>offside<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></li> <li>illegal handling by the goalkeeper within the penalty area<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>preventing the goalkeeper from releasing the ball from the hands<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>kicking (or attempting to kick) the ball when the goalkeeper is in the process of releasing it<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>playing in a dangerous manner (without committing a more serious offence)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>impeding the progress of an opponent without any contact being made<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>dissent<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>any other verbal offences<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>after having already been guilty of serious foul play, violent conduct or a second cautionable offence, a player challenges or interferes with an opponent while the referee is playing advantage (unless another more serious offence was committed)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_108-17">[17]</a></li> <li>an offence committed outside the field of play by a player against a player, substitute, substituted player or team official of their own team<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_114-11">[11]</a></li> <li>the player taking a kick-off, free kick, penalty kick, throw-in, goal kick, or corner kick touches the ball a second time before it has been touched by another player (unless the second touch is a handball offence punishable by a direct free kick / penalty kick)<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li> <li>when a free kick is taken, an attacking player is less than 1 m (1 yard) from a "wall" formed by three or more defending players<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_119-19">[19]</a></li> <li>a penalty kick is kicked backwards<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_122-20">[20]</a></li> <li>the kicker taking a penalty kick feints once the run-up has been completed<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_123-21">[21]</a></li> <li>a team-mate of the identified player takes a penalty kick<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_122-20">[20]</a></li> <li>delaying the game by using their body to trap the ball<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li> <li>at a penalty kick, both the kicker and goalkeeper commit an offence at the same time, and the kick is scored (the goal is disallowed, and the indirect free kick is awarded to the defending team)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_123-21">[21]</a></li> <li>at a penalty kick, an attacking player encroaches, and the ball does not enter the goal<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_122-20">[20]</a></li> <li>at a throw-in, an opponent unfairly distracts or impedes the thrower, or is closer than 2 metres to the place where the throw-in is to be taken, and play is stopped after the throw-in has been taken<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_128-22">[22]</a></li> <li>a player who requires the referee's permission to re-enter the field of play re-enters without the referee's permission, but does not interfere with play, and the referee decides to stop play to deal with the offence<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_53-12">[12]</a></li> <li>any other offence for which play is stopped to caution or send off a player<a href="#cite_note-laws_2019_105-16">[16]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_1863">Before 1863</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Before 1863">edit</a>]</div> The concept of a free kick—i.e., an opportunity to kick the ball without being challenged by opponents—is found in public school football games from the early nineteenth century. The three situations in which the free kick was typically found are:<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> <ul><li>as a reward for a fair catch</li> <li>after a touch-down</li> <li>after an offence by the opposing team</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fair_catch">Fair catch</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Fair catch">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Fair_catch" title="Fair catch">fair catch</a> was the most common reason for a free kick in football codes of the early nineteenth-century. An early example is found in the testimony of <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Bloxam" title="Matthew Bloxam">Matthew Bloxam</a>, in the famous passage where he attributes the innovation of "running with the ball" at Rugby School to the actions of <a href="/wiki/William_Webb_Ellis" title="William Webb Ellis">William Webb Ellis</a> in 1823:<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">[Ellis] caught the ball in his arms. This being so, according to the then rules, he ought to have retired back as far as he pleased, without parting with the ball, for the combatants on the opposite side could only advance to the spot where he had caught the ball, and were unable to rush forward till he had either punted it or had placed it for some one else to kick, for it was by means of these place kicks that most of the goals were in those days kicked, but the moment the ball touched the ground, the opposite side might rush on.</blockquote> The first published laws of football, those of Rugby School in 1845, confirm that a free kick was awarded for a catch:<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Charging is fair, in case of a place-kick, as soon as a ball has touched the ground; in case of a kick from a catch, as soon as the player's foot has left the ground, and not before.</blockquote> Although the 1848 "<a href="/wiki/Cambridge_rules#1848" title="Cambridge rules">Cambridge rules</a>" described by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Charles_Malden" title="Henry Charles Malden">Henry C. Malden</a> in 1897 have not survived, Malden implies that they awarded a free kick for a fair catch.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The 1856 Cambridge rules, which do survive, explicitly awarded such a free kick:<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">When a player catches the ball directly from the foot, he may kick it as he can without running with it.</blockquote> Other early codes awarding a free kick for a fair catch include Shrewsbury School (1855),<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Harrow School (1858),<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Sheffield FC (1858),<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Melbourne FC (1859),<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> and Blackheath FC (1862).<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> All these kicks, except for Sheffield's, permit a goal to be scored directly. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Touch-down">Touch-down</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Touch-down">edit</a>]</div> The free kick after a touch-down (also known as a "try at goal") is found at Rugby School from the mid-1830s.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> It is also found in Rugby-influenced codes, such as <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_College" title="Marlborough College">Marlborough College</a>,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_rules#1863" title="Cambridge rules">Cambridge Rules of 1863</a>, which were drawn up by a committee including representatives from both Marlborough and Rugby.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="After_an_offence_by_the_opposition">After an offence by the opposition</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: After an offence by the opposition">edit</a>]</div> The first Rugby School rules (1845) awarded a punt or a drop-kick to the opposition after a player took "a punt when he [was] not entitled to it".<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> The 1846 revision of the Rugby School rules kept that rule, but added the provision that a goal could not be scored from such a drop-kick, giving an early example of an indirect free-kick.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Other codes that used a free kick to punish an infringement of the rules included the Uppingham laws of 1857 (for offside),<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> and the Melbourne FC laws of 1860 (for any offence).<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Summary">Summary</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Summary">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: bottom;"> <th colspan="1" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="2">Code </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="2">Name </th> <th colspan="3" rowspan="1">Free kick awarded for </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Fair catch </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Touch down </th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Offence by opposition </th></tr> <tr> <td>1823 </td> <td rowspan="2">Rugby School (uncodified, based on later recollections) </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1834 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1845 </td> <td rowspan="2">Rugby School <a href="#cite_note-Rugby_School_1845-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Place-kick Punt Drop </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-Illegal_punt-46">[46]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1846 </td> <td style="background: #CEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">indirect<a href="#cite_note-Illegal_punt-46">[46]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1847 </td> <td>Eton Field Game<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1848 </td> <td>Cambridge Rules (as recalled by Malden)<a href="#cite_note-alcock_1898-49">[49]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1855 </td> <td>Shrewsbury<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> </td> <td>Hoist </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1856 </td> <td>Cambridge Rules<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> </td> <td>"Kick it as he can" </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1857 </td> <td>Uppingham School<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> </td> <td>"Kick it as best he can" Fair kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1858 </td> <td>Harrow School<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1858 </td> <td>Sheffield FC<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background: #CEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">indirect </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1859 </td> <td>Melbourne FC<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1860 </td> <td>Melbourne FC<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1862 </td> <td>Barnes FC<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1862 </td> <td>Blackheath FC<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1862 </td> <td>Eton Field Game<a href="#cite_note-Rugby_School_1845-43">[43]</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1862 </td> <td>The Simplest Game<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td>Cambridge Rules<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td>Charterhouse School<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td>Marlborough College<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td>Winchester College<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td>Football Association<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> </td> <td>Free kick </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">direct<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_1863_FA_Rules">The 1863 FA Rules</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The 1863 FA Rules">edit</a>]</div> The original laws of the Football Association, published in December 1863, awarded a free kick in two situations:<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> <ul><li>Following a fair catch, which was defined as "when the ball is caught, after it has touched the person of an adversary, or has been kicked or knocked on by an adversary, and before it has touched the ground or one of the side catching it". The player making the fair catch had to claim it by "making a mark with his heel at once". <a href="/wiki/Goal_from_mark" title="Goal from mark">As in the Rugby rules</a>, opponents were allowed to come up to the mark in order to challenge the kick, with the player taking the kick being permitted to retreat backwards from the mark in order to evade the opponents' attentions. The player making the fair catch had to take the resulting free kick, from which a goal could be scored directly.</li> <li>Following a touch down behind the opponents' goal-line, in a manner similar to the contemporary Rugby "try at goal" or modern rugby conversion. The kick had to be taken from a point 15 yards (14 m) from the goal-line, in line with the place with the ball was touched down. The kick had to be taken at the goal, with opponents being obliged to remain behind their goal-line until the kick was taken. The kick could be taken by any member of the team who touched the ball down.</li></ul> In both cases, the kick could be taken "in such manner as the kicker may think fit". This was interpreted as allowing a kick from hand (a punt or drop-kick), in addition to a place kick.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> In the first ever game played under Football Association rules, (<a href="/wiki/1863%E2%80%9364_Barnes_F.C._season" title="1863–64 Barnes F.C. season">Barnes v Richmond</a>, 19 December 1863), <a href="/wiki/Barnes_Football_Club" title="Barnes Football Club">Barnes FC</a> attempted six such "tries at goal", but missed all of them.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abolition_(1866–1872)">Abolition (1866–1872)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Abolition (1866–1872)">edit</a>]</div> At the first revision of the FA laws, in 1866, the free kick was removed from the game.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> Reference to the fair catch disappeared from the laws (though catching was still permitted), while the touch down, rather than being rewarded with a free kick, became a <a href="/wiki/Determining_the_Outcome_of_a_Match_(association_football)#The_"touch_down"" title="Determining the Outcome of a Match (association football)">tie-breaker</a> to be used when an equal number of goals was scored by each team.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> In 1867, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield Football Club">Sheffield Football Club</a> proposed to the FA that handling should be banned, with a free kick awarded as punishment for handball.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> Records of the FA's annual meeting do not indicate that this proposal received any formal discussion, and it was not adopted:<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> however, a similar proposal was incorporated into the inaugural laws of the <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield Football Association">Sheffield Football Association</a> later that same year.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> In 1870, handling was completely banned in the FA laws, upon the basis of a proposal by <a href="/wiki/Upton_Park_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Upton Park FC">Upton Park FC</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wanderers_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wanderers FC">Wanderers FC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civil_Service_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Service FC">Civil Service FC</a> both suggested that handling should be punished with a <a href="/wiki/Throw-in" title="Throw-in">throw-in</a> to the opposition, but their proposals were not adopted.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reintroduction_(1872–1873)">Reintroduction (1872–1873)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Reintroduction (1872–1873)">edit</a>]</div> In 1872, the free kick was reintroduced, on the basis of a proposal by <a href="/wiki/Harrow_Chequers_F.C." title="Harrow Chequers F.C.">Harrow Chequers F.C.</a> It was awarded to punish illegal handling of the ball, and did not allow a goal to be scored directly.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1872-82">[82]</a> The 1872 laws neglected to define exactly how a free kick should be taken; this omission was made up in 1873, when it was specified that the ball must be on the ground, with opponents at least six yards (5.5 m) from the ball, unless behind their own goal-line.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> These restrictions were proposed by Clapton Pilgrims, and amended by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Marindin" title="Francis Marindin">Francis Marindin</a> of Royal Engineers FC. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subsequent_developments">Subsequent developments</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Subsequent developments">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Position_of_opponents">Position of opponents</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Position of opponents">edit</a>]</div> In 1913, the distance opponents were required to retreat was increased from six yards (5.5 m) to ten yards (9.15 m).<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> In 1936, it was further specified that players could be less than ten yards (9.15 m) away only if they were on the goal-line between the posts (rather than anywhere on the goal-line).<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> In 1965, opponents were required to remain outside the penalty area when a free kick was being taken from within the kicking team's penalty area. (A similar change had been made to the laws for the goal kick in 1948).<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Position_of_teammates">Position of teammates</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Position of teammates">edit</a>]</div> In 2019, members of the team taking the free-kick were forbidden from standing within one metre of any "wall" made by the defensive team. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Putting_the_ball_into_play">Putting the ball into play</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Putting the ball into play">edit</a>]</div> In 1887, it was specified that "[t]he ball must at least be rolled over before it shall be considered played".<a href="#cite_note-laws_1887-87">[87]</a> This requirement was made more precise in 1895: the ball "must make a complete circuit or travel the distance of its circumference" before being in play.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1895-88">[88]</a> In 1997, this requirement was eliminated: the ball became in play as soon as it was kicked and moved (and left the penalty area, if necessary; see below).<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> In 2016, it was specified that the ball must "clearly" move.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> In 1937, a free kick taken within the kicking team's own penalty area was required to leave the penalty area before being considered in play. This followed a parallel change in the goal-kick law the previous year.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> Both changes were reversed in 2019. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Method_of_kicking">Method of kicking</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Method of kicking">edit</a>]</div> In 2007, the laws specified that feinting, and lifting the ball with one or both feet, were both legitimate methods of taking a free kick.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dribbling">Dribbling</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Dribbling">edit</a>]</div> In 1874, the player taking the free kick was forbidden from touching the ball again until it had been played by another player.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1874-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scoring_a_goal_directly">Scoring a goal directly</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Scoring a goal directly">edit</a>]</div> When reintroduced in 1872, the free kick did not permit a goal to be scored.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1872-82">[82]</a> In 1891, the <a href="/wiki/Penalty_kick" class="mw-redirect" title="Penalty kick">penalty kick</a> was introduced, for certain offences committed within 12 yards (11 m) of the goal-line.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1891-94">[94]</a> The penalty kick permitted a goal to be scored directly (unlike the free kick, which was still exclusively indirect). In 1903 the direct free-kick was reintroduced, for the same offences penalized by a penalty kick when committed in the penalty area.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1903-95">[95]</a> In 1927, the laws were amended to prevent an own goal from being scored directly from any free kick (whether direct or indirect).<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Awarded_within_the_goal_area">Awarded within the goal area</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Awarded within the goal area">edit</a>]</div> In 1978, it was specified that a free-kick awarded to a team within its own <a href="/wiki/Goal-area" class="mw-redirect" title="Goal-area">goal-area</a> could be taken from any point within that half of the goal-area in which the offence occurred. This change was made in order to remove any disadvantage that might come from being forced to take the kick from a "restricted position" near the goal-posts.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In 1992, this provision was further widened to permit such a free-kick to be taken from any point within the goal-area.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> This change, which was proposed "to reduce time-wasting", was made in conjunction with a <a href="/wiki/Goal_kick#Subsequent_changes" title="Goal kick">parallel change to the goal kick law</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In 1984, it was specified that an indirect free kick awarded for an offence within the opposing team's goal area should be taken at the closest point on the six-yard (5.5 m) line. This change was made in order to avoid "crowding" and "jostling".<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Remedy_for_infringements">Remedy for infringements</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Remedy for infringements">edit</a>]</div> In 1882, an indirect free kick was awarded to the opposing side if the player taking the free kick touched the ball twice.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> In 1905, encroachment by the opposition at a free kick was also punished with an indirect free-kick.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> In 1938, this punishment was eliminated; it was specified instead that, in the event of encroachment, the referee "shall delay the taking of the kick until the Law is complied with".<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> In 1937, it was specified that if a free kick taken from within the kicking side's penalty area did not leave the penalty area, it should be retaken.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> This requirement was removed in 2019. In 2019, the laws were modified to state that, if a team-mate of the kicker was closer than one metre to a "wall" formed by the defending team, an indirect free-kick should be awarded. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Offside_from_a_free_kick">Offside from a free kick</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Offside from a free kick">edit</a>]</div> The laws of football have always permitted an offside offence to be committed from a free kick. The free kick contrasts, in this respect, with other restarts of play such as the goal kick, corner kick, and throw-in. An unsuccessful proposal to remove the possibility of being offside from a direct free-kick was made in 1929.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> Similar proposals to prevent offside offences from any free-kick were advanced in 1974 and 1986, each time without success.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> In 1987, the <a href="/wiki/Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Football Association">Football Association</a> (FA) obtained the permission of <a href="/wiki/IFAB" class="mw-redirect" title="IFAB">IFAB</a> to test such a rule in the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_Football_Conference" title="1987–88 Football Conference">1987-88 GM Vauxhall Conference</a>.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> At the next annual meeting, the FA reported to IFAB that the experiment had, as predicted, "assisted further the non-offending team and also generated more action near goal, resulting in greater excitement for players and spectators"; it nevertheless withdrew the proposal.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Offences_for_which_the_kick_was_awarded">Offences for which the kick was awarded</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Offences for which the kick was awarded">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Illegal_handling">Illegal handling</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Illegal handling">edit</a>]</div> As mentioned above, the free kick was revived in 1872 to punish illegal handling (by the goalkeeper or any other player).<a href="#cite_note-laws_1872-82">[82]</a> In 1903, when the direct free kick was reintroduced, it was used to punish handball: technical handling offences by the goalkeeper continued to be punished by an indirect free kick.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1903-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Foul_play">Foul play</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Foul play">edit</a>]</div> In 1874, the use of the free kick was extended to cover offences resulting from foul play.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1874-93">[93]</a> Since 1903, when the direct free kick was reintroduced, most forms of foul play have been punished by a direct free kick. The exceptions, punished by an indirect free kick, are listed below: <ul><li>Dangerous play (since 1903) <a href="#cite_note-laws_1903-95">[95]</a></li> <li>Obstructing / impeding the progress of an opponent(1951-2016)<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> and impeding an opponent without contact (from 2016)<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-laws_2016-113">[113]</a></li> <li>Charging when not attempting to play the ball (1948-1997)<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-charging_1997-115">[115]</a></li> <li>Charging the goalkeeper in an illegal manner (1903-1997)<a href="#cite_note-laws_1903-95">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-charging_1997-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-laws_1997-116">[116]</a></li> <li>Preventing the goalkeeper from releasing the ball (from 1997)<a href="#cite_note-laws_1997-116">[116]</a></li> <li>Kicking (or attempting to kick) the ball when the goalkeeper is in the process of releasing it (from 2016)<a href="#cite_note-laws_2016-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Disciplinary_offences_/_misconduct">Disciplinary offences / misconduct</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Disciplinary offences / misconduct">edit</a>]</div> Since 1907, an indirect free kick has been awarded whenever play is stopped to send off a player (unless the laws called for a direct free kick or penalty kick).<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> In 1934, this principle was extended to cautions.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> From 1967 to 2000, there was a separate offence of timewasting by the goalkeeper, punishable by an indirect free kick.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Offences_at_the_restart_of_play">Offences at the restart of play</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Offences at the restart of play">edit</a>]</div> In 1882, an indirect free-kick was awarded for a double touch at a free kick, throw-in, goal kick, or kick-off.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> In 1901, this was extended to a double touch at a penalty kick. Encroachment by the opposition has been punished by an indirect free-kick at various times: <ul><li>at the kick-off (1887-1903)<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a></li> <li>at a free kick (1905-1938)</li> <li>at a goal kick (1905-1937)<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a><a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a></li> <li>at a corner kick (until 1973)<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a></li></ul> The indirect free-kick was also awarded for a foul throw from 1882.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> In 1931, this remedy was changed to a throw-in to the opposition.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Offside">Offside</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Offside">edit</a>]</div> Offside has been punished by an indirect free-kick since 1874.<a href="#cite_note-laws_1874-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Summary_2">Summary</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Summary">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Date </th> <th colspan="2">Goal may be scored directly </th> <th rowspan="2">May be kicked from hand </th> <th rowspan="2">Ball may be touched twice </th> <th rowspan="2">Minimum distance (opponents) </th> <th colspan="2">Taken from kicking team's penalty area </th> <th colspan="2">Position when taken from goal area </th> <th colspan="2">Remedy for infringement </th> <th rowspan="2">Date </th></tr> <tr> <th>Attacking goal </th> <th>Own goal </th> <th>Ball must leave penalty area </th> <th>Opponents must be outside penalty area </th> <th>Of kicking team </th> <th>Of opponents </th> <th>Double-touch </th> <th>Encroachment by opposition </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1863 </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td rowspan="1" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">—<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="4" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1863 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1866 </td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="11" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1866 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1872 </td> <td rowspan="5" colspan="2" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background: #FFB; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Not specified </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background: #FFB; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Not specified </td> <td rowspan="4" colspan="4" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td rowspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td rowspan="1" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1872 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1873 </td> <td rowspan="15" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td rowspan="6">6 yards (5.5 m) </td> <td rowspan="5" style="background: #FFB; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Not specified </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1873 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1874 </td> <td rowspan="14" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td rowspan="1" style="background: #FFB; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Not specified </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1874 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1882 </td> <td rowspan="13">Indirect free-kick </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1882 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1902 </td> <td rowspan="5" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td rowspan="7" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td rowspan="8">From place of offence </td> <td rowspan="9">From place of offence </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1902 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1903 </td> <td colspan="2" rowspan="3" style="background: #CEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Direct free kick only </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1905 </td> <td rowspan="4">Indirect free-kick </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1905 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1913 </td> <td rowspan="9">10 yards (9.15 m) </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1913 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1927 </td> <td rowspan="8" style="background: #CEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="partial table-partial">Direct free kick only </td> <td rowspan="8" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1927 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1937 </td> <td rowspan="6" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1937 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1938 </td> <td rowspan="6">Retake </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1938 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1965 </td> <td rowspan="5" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1965 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1978 </td> <td rowspan="2">From that half of goal area in which offence was committed </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1978 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1984 </td> <td rowspan="3">From the nearest point on the six-yard (5.5 m) line </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1984 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1992 </td> <td rowspan="2">From anywhere within the goal area </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">1992 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">2019 </td> <td rowspan="=1" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background: #ececec; color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left;" class="table-rh">2019 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_kick_(association_football)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style 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href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/793/103202_200519_LotG_201920_EN_SinglePage.pdf">Laws of the Game 2019/20</a>, pp. 88, 119, 123, 128, 131, 135 </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_2019_119-19"><a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_119_19-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/793/103202_200519_LotG_201920_EN_SinglePage.pdf">Laws of the Game 2019/20</a>, p. 119 </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_2019_122-20">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_122_20-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_122_20-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_122_20-2">c</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/793/103202_200519_LotG_201920_EN_SinglePage.pdf">Laws of the Game 2019/20</a>, p. 122 </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_2019_123-21">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_123_21-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_123_21-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/793/103202_200519_LotG_201920_EN_SinglePage.pdf">Laws of the Game 2019/20</a>, p. 123 </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_2019_128-22"><a href="#cite_ref-laws_2019_128_22-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/793/103202_200519_LotG_201920_EN_SinglePage.pdf">Laws of the Game 2019/20</a>, p. 128 </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> The following situations are excluded: <ul><li>starting the game, starting the second half, or restarting after a goal (this is discussed in the <a href="/wiki/Kick-off_(association_football)#History" title="Kick-off (association football)">kick-off</a> article)</li> <li>returning the ball into play after it has gone over the sidelines of the field of play (this is discussed in the <a href="/wiki/Throw-in#History" title="Throw-in">throw-in</a> article)</li> <li>returning the ball into play, by the defending side, after it has gone over the goal-line (this is discussed in the <a href="/wiki/Goal_kick#History" title="Goal kick">goal kick</a> article).</li></ul> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloxam1880" class="citation journal cs1">Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche (22 December 1880). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200801190114/http://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_meteor&columnName=filename&recordId=520">"Rugby School Football Play"</a>. The Meteor (157). Rugby: 155–156. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_meteor&columnName=filename&recordId=520">the original</a> on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Meteor&rft.atitle=Rugby+School+Football+Play&rft.issue=157&rft.pages=155-156&rft.date=1880-12-22&rft.aulast=Bloxam&rft.aufirst=Matthew+Holbeche&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frugbyschoolarchives.co.uk%2FFilename.ashx%3FtableName%3Dta_meteor%26columnName%3Dfilename%26recordId%3D520&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988">. Emphasis added. </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_Football_as_played_at_Rugby_School_(1845)">Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1845) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+Football+as+played+at+Rugby+School+%281845%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlcock1898" class="citation journal cs1">Alcock, C. W. (8 January 1898). <a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Association_Football_Its_Origin_(Sportsman)_1898-01-08.png">"Association Football: No. 1 -- Its Origin"</a>. The Sportsman (8851). London: 3. <q>Well, sir, years afterwards some one took those rules, still in force at Cambridge, and with very few alterations they became the Association Rules. A fair catch, free kick (as still played at Harrow) was struck out. [emphasis added]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Sportsman&rft.atitle=Association+Football%3A+No.+1+--+Its+Origin&rft.issue=8851&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1898-01-08&rft.aulast=Alcock&rft.aufirst=C.+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AAssociation_Football_Its_Origin_%28Sportsman%29_1898-01-08.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rules_(1856)">Cambridge Rules (1856) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cambridge+Rules+%281856%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Shrewsbury_School_(1855)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Shrewsbury School (1855) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>A player who caught the ball direct from a kick could take a 'hoist' (i.e. drop kick)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Shrewsbury+School+%281855%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Harrow_Football_(1858)">Rules of Harrow Football (1858) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>Whoever catches the Ball is entitled to a free kick if he calls Three yards [2.7 m]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Harrow+Football+%281858%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rules_(1858)">Sheffield Rules (1858) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>Fair Catch is a Catch from any player provided the Ball has not touched the ground and has not been thrown from touch and entitles a free kick</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sheffield+Rules+%281858%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club_(1859)">Melbourne Football Club (1859) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>Any player catching the ball directly from the foot may call 'mark'. He then has a free kick; no player from the opposite side being allowed to come inside the spot marked</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Melbourne+Football+Club+%281859%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Blackheath_Football_Club_(1862)">Rules of Blackheath Football Club (1862) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>A fair catch is a catch direct from the foot, or a knock-on from the hand of one of the opposite side; when the catcher may either run with the ball or make his mark by inserting his heel in the ground on the spot where he catches it; in which case he is entitled to a free kick</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Blackheath+Football+Club+%281862%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacrory1991" class="citation book cs1">Macrory, Jenny (1991). Running with the Ball: The Birth of Rugby Football. London: HarperCollins. pp. 112–114. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0002184028" title="Special:BookSources/0002184028"><bdi>0002184028</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Running+with+the+Ball%3A+The+Birth+of+Rugby+Football&rft.place=London&rft.pages=112-114&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0002184028&rft.aulast=Macrory&rft.aufirst=Jenny&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> Technically, the touchdown was not rewarded directly with a free kick but with a "punt out" from the goal-line, which could be kicked backwards to a team-mate, who could then catch the ball, make a mark, and proceed with a free-kick as after a fair catch. The procedure is described in Tom Brown's School-Days: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF"An_Old_Boy"_[Thomas_Hughes]1857" class="citation book cs1">"An Old Boy" [Thomas Hughes] (1857). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/tombrownsschool00cogoog#page/n134/mode/2up">Tom Brown's School Days</a>. Cambridge: Macmillan. pp. 119–120.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tom+Brown%27s+School+Days&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=119-120&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1857&rft.au=%22An+Old+Boy%22+%5BThomas+Hughes%5D&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Ftombrownsschool00cogoog%23page%2Fn134%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988">: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">[Y]oung Brooke has touched it right under the School [opposition] goal-posts ... Old Brooke stands with the ball under his arm motioning the School back ... Crab Jones ... stands there in front of old Brooke to catch the ball. If [the opponents] can reach and destroy him before he catches, the danger is over ... Fond hope, it is kicked out and caught beautifully. Crab strikes his heel into the ground, to mark the spot where the ball was caught, beyond which the School line may not advance; but there they stand five deep, ready to rush the moment the ball touches the ground. ... Crab Jones ... has made a small hole with his heel for the ball to lie on, by which he is resting on one knee, with his eye on old Brooke. "Now!" Crab places the ball at the word, old Brooke kicks, and it rises slowly and truly as the School rush forward. Then a moment's pause, while both sides look up at the spinning ball. There it flies straight between the two posts, some five feet above the cross-bar, an unquestioned goal</blockquote> The simpler "conversion" that survives today in rugby and <a href="/wiki/Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">gridiron football</a> was first used at Marlborough College, before being used in the first laws of the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Football_Union" title="Rugby Football Union">Rugby Football Union</a> (1871). </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Marlborough_College_(1863)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Marlborough College (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>The most important points of difference between the two games [Rugby School and Marlborough] [...] are [...] the uniform distance of 30 yards [27 m] in front of "touch" for the "place kick" at Marlborough, instead of the kick from an undefined place at Rugby</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Marlborough+College+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rules_(1863)">Cambridge Rules (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>When a player has kicked the ball beyond the opponent's goal line, whoever first touches the ball when it is on the ground with his hand may have a free kick, bringing the ball 25 yards [23 m] straight out from the goal line</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cambridge+Rules+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_Football_as_played_at_Rugby_School_(1845)">Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1845) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>If a player take a punt when he is not entitled to it, the opposite side may take a punt or drop, without running if the ball has not touched two hands</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+Football+as+played+at+Rugby+School+%281845%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_Football_as_played_at_Rugby_School_(1846)">Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1846) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>If a player take a punt when he is not entitled to it, the opposite side may take a punt or drop, without running, (after touching the ball on the ground) if the ball has not touched two hands, but such drop may not be a goal</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+Football+as+played+at+Rugby+School+%281846%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_for_Football_at_Uppingham_School_(1857)">Rules for Football at Uppingham School (1857) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>If any player kicks off-side, the opposite side may claim a fair kick from the place where it was kicked off-side</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+for+Football+at+Uppingham+School+%281857%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Melbourne_Football_Club_(1860)">Rules of Melbourne Football Club (1860) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>In case of deliberate infringement of any of the above Rules by either side, the Captain of the opposing side may claim that any one of his party may have a free kick from the place where the breach of the Rules was made; the two Captains in all cases, save where Umpires are appointed, to be the sold judges of infringements</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Melbourne+Football+Club+%281860%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOld_Rugbeian_Society1897" class="citation book cs1">Old Rugbeian Society (1897). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hwrbh9?urlappend=%3Bseq=20">The Origin of Rugby Football</a>. Rugby: A. J. Lawrence. p. 10. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fhvd.hwrbh9?urlappend=%3Bseq=20">2027/hvd.hwrbh9</a>. <q>A boy of the name of Ellis — William Webb Ellis — a town boy and a foundationer, who at the age of nine entered the school after the midsummer holidays in 1816, who in the second half-year of 1823 was, I believe, a praepostor, whilst playing Bigside at football in that half-year, caught the ball in his arms. This being so, according to the then rule, he ought to have retired back as far as he pleased, without parting with the ball, for the combatants on the opposite side could only advance to the spot where he had caught the ball, and were unable to rush forward until he had either punted it or placed it for some one else to kick, for it was by means of these placed kicks that most of the goals were in those days kicked, but the moment the ball touched the ground, the opposite side might rush on.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Origin+of+Rugby+Football&rft.place=Rugby&rft.pages=10&rft.pub=A.+J.+Lawrence&rft.date=1897&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Fhvd.hwrbh9%3Furlappend%3D%253Bseq%3D20&rft.au=Old+Rugbeian+Society&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Fhvd.hwrbh9%3Furlappend%3D%253Bseq%3D20&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacrory1991" class="citation book cs1">Macrory, Jenny (1991). Running With the Ball. London: Collins Willow. p. 113.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Running+With+the+Ball&rft.place=London&rft.pages=113&rft.pub=Collins+Willow&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Macrory&rft.aufirst=Jenny&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a> Strictly speaking, the touch-down entitled the attacking team to a "punt-out", which could then be caught by a team-mate to set up a free kick as from a fair catch. </li> <li id="cite_note-Rugby_School_1845-43">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Rugby_School_1845_43-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Rugby_School_1845_43-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_Football_as_played_at_Rugby_School_(1845)">Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1845) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+Football+as+played+at+Rugby+School+%281845%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_Football_as_played_at_Rugby_School_(1846)">Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1846) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+Football+as+played+at+Rugby+School+%281846%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a> taken from the place the ball was caught after the "punt out" from goal </li> <li id="cite_note-Illegal_punt-46">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Illegal_punt_46-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Illegal_punt_46-1">b</a> Illegal punt </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Eton_Field_Game_(1847)">Laws of the Eton Field Game (1847) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Eton+Field+Game+%281847%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a> The "rouge" entitled the attacker to a free kick one yard (1 m) out from goal </li> <li id="cite_note-alcock_1898-49"><a href="#cite_ref-alcock_1898_49-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlcock1898" class="citation journal cs1">Alcock, C. W. (8 January 1898). <a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Association_Football_Its_Origin_(Sportsman)_1898-01-08.png">"Association Football: No. 1 -- Its Origin"</a>. The Sportsman (8851). London: 3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Sportsman&rft.atitle=Association+Football%3A+No.+1+--+Its+Origin&rft.issue=8851&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1898-01-08&rft.aulast=Alcock&rft.aufirst=C.+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AAssociation_Football_Its_Origin_%28Sportsman%29_1898-01-08.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Shrewsbury_School_(1855)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Shrewsbury School (1855) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Shrewsbury+School+%281855%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rules_(1856)">Cambridge Rules (1856) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cambridge+Rules+%281856%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_for_Football_at_Uppingham_School_(1857)">Rules for Football at Uppingham School (1857) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+for+Football+at+Uppingham+School+%281857%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a> offside </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Harrow_Football_(1858)">Rules of Harrow Football (1858) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Harrow+Football+%281858%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rules_(1858)">Sheffield Rules (1858) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sheffield+Rules+%281858%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a> Draft rules had free kick for handball, but removed from published version of laws </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Melbourne_Football_Club_(1859)">Rules of Melbourne Football Club (1859) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Melbourne+Football+Club+%281859%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Melbourne_Football_Club_(1860)">Rules of Melbourne Football Club (1860) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Melbourne+Football+Club+%281860%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a> Any offence </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Barnes_Football_Club_(1862)">Rules of Barnes Football Club (1862) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Barnes+Football+Club+%281862%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rules_of_Blackheath_Football_Club_(1862)">Rules of Blackheath Football Club (1862) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rules+of+Blackheath+Football+Club+%281862%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a> Rouge now offers a "touch" rather than a kick </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Eton_Field_Game_(1862)">Laws of the Eton Field Game (1862) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Eton+Field+Game+%281862%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rules_(1863)">Cambridge Rules (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cambridge+Rules+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a> From 25 yards (23 m) </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Charterhouse_School_(1863)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Charterhouse School (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Charterhouse+School+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Marlborough_College_(1863)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Marlborough College (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Marlborough+College+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a> taken from 30 yards (27 m) </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Rules_of_Football_as_played_at_Winchester_College_(1863)">Description of the Rules of Football as played at Winchester College (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Description+of+the+Rules+of+Football+as+played+at+Winchester+College+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1863)">Laws of the Game (1863) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281863%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a> taken from 15 yards (14 m) </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a> This does not include the "free kick from the goal-line", which was awarded to the defending team after they touched the ball down behind their own goal-line. It is treated under the <a href="/wiki/Goal_kick#History" title="Goal kick">goal kick</a> article. </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a> See e.g. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Eleven of Barnes v. Mr. Greaves's Eleven". Sporting Life: 1. 27 January 1864. <q>Hay, on the part of Barnes, touched the ball down behind his adversary's goal. Being by the new rules entitled to a free kick from fifteen yards [14 m] outside the goal line, he punted the ball very neatly between the posts [emphasis added]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sporting+Life&rft.atitle=Eleven+of+Barnes+v.+Mr.+Greaves%27s+Eleven&rft.pages=1&rft.date=1864-01-27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Barnes v. Richmond". Field: 7. 26 December 1863.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Field&rft.atitle=Barnes+v.+Richmond&rft.pages=7&rft.date=1863-12-26&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1866)">Laws of the Game (1866) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281866%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a> The definition of a free kick remained in the 1866 laws, perhaps through oversight; the now-redundant definition was deleted in 1867. </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Football_Association_(Sporting_Life)_1867-02-13.png">"Football Association"</a>. The Sporting Life. London: 1. 3 February 1867.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Sporting+Life&rft.atitle=Football+Association&rft.pages=1&rft.date=1867-02-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AFootball_Association_%28Sporting_Life%29_1867-02-13.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Football_Association_(Bell%27s_Life_in_London)_1867-03-02.png">"The Football Association"</a>. Bell's Life in London (2341): 9. 2 March 1867.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bell%27s+Life+in+London&rft.atitle=The+Football+Association&rft.issue=2341&rft.pages=9&rft.date=1867-03-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AFootball_Association_%28Bell%2527s_Life_in_London%29_1867-03-02.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rules_(March_1867)">Sheffield Rules (March 1867) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>No player shall hold or carry the ball, or knock or push it on with the hand or arm. The side breaking this role forfeits a free kick to the opposite side</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sheffield+Rules+%28March+1867%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1870)">Laws of the Game (1870) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281870%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Football_Association_(Sportsman)_1870-02-02.png">"Football Association"</a>. The Sportsman (748). London: 3. 2 February 1870.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Sportsman&rft.atitle=Football+Association&rft.issue=748&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1870-02-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AFootball_Association_%28Sportsman%29_1870-02-02.png&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1872-82">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1872_82-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1872_82-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1872_82-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1872)">Laws of the Game (1872) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>No player shall carry or knock on the ball; and handling the ball, under any pretence whatever, shall be prohibited, except in the case of the goal-keeper, who shall be allowed to use his hands for the protection of his goal. In the event of an infringement of this rule, a free kick shall be forfeited to the opposite side from the spot where the infringement took place, but in no case shall a goal be scored from such free kick.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281872%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1873)">Laws of the Game (1873) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281873%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1913)">Laws of the Game (1913) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281913%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1936min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1936"</a> (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 29 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1936&rft.pages=4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1936min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1965min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1965"</a> (PDF). p. 2 [p. 7 of the PDF]. Retrieved 29 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1965&rft.pages=p.+2+p.+7+of+the+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1965min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1887-87"><a href="#cite_ref-laws_1887_87-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1887)">Laws of the Game (1887) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281887%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1895-88"><a href="#cite_ref-laws_1895_88-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1895)">Laws of the Game (1895) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281895%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1997min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1997 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 133. Retrieved 3 December 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1997+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=133&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1997min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160615041349/http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/assets/documents/IFAB_laws_of_the_game_changes.pdf">"IFAB: Law Changes 2016-17"</a> (PDF). p. 42. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/assets/documents/IFAB_laws_of_the_game_changes.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 15 June 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=IFAB%3A+Law+Changes+2016-17&rft.pages=42&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic-3eb8.kxcdn.com%2Fassets%2Fdocuments%2FIFAB_laws_of_the_game_changes.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1935min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1937"</a> (PDF). p. 5. Retrieved 29 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1937&rft.pages=5&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1935min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/files/2008/06/laws_of_the_game_0708_10565%5b1%5d.pdf">"Laws of the Game 2007/2008"</a> (PDF). p. 124. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210707061826/https://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/files/2008/06/laws_of_the_game_0708_10565%5B1%5D.pdf">Archived</a> (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+2007%2F2008&rft.pages=124&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Finvisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl%2Ffiles%2F2008%2F06%2Flaws_of_the_game_0708_10565%5B1%5D.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1874-93">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1874_93-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1874_93-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1874_93-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1874)">Laws of the Game (1874) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>11. In the event of any infringement of Rules VI., VIII., or IX., a free kick shall be forfeited to the opposite side from the spot where the infringement took place, but in no case shall a goal be scored from such free kick, nor shall the ball be again played by the kicker until it shall have been kicked by some other player.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281874%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1891-94"><a href="#cite_ref-laws_1891_94-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1891)">Laws of the Game (1891) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281891%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1903-95">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1903_95-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1903_95-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1903_95-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1903_95-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1903)">Laws of the Game (1903) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>A goal may be scored from a free kick which is awarded because of any infringement of Law 9, but not from any other free kick.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281903%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1927min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1927"</a> (PDF). p. 3. Retrieved 29 November 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1927&rft.pages=3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1927min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1978min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1978 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). pp. 5-6 [p. 6-7 of PDF]. Retrieved 30 December 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1978+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=pp.+5-6+p.+6-7+of+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1978min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1992agen.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1992 Agenda of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). pp. 10 [p. 12 of PDF]. 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Retrieved 23 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1992+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1992min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1984min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1984 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 16 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1984+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1984min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1882)">Laws of the Game (1882) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>11. In the event of any infringement of Rules 5, 6, 8, or 9, 12, or 14, a free kick shall be forfeited to the opposite side from the spot where the infringement took place. 12. In no case shall a goal be scored from any free kick, nor shall the ball be again played by the kicker until it has been played by another player[emphasis added].</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281882%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1905)">Laws of the Game (1905) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>[Law 10]: When a free kick has been awarded, the kicker's opponents shall not approach within 6 yards [5.5 m] of the ball unless they are standing on their own goal-line. [Law 17]: In the event of any infringement of Laws 5, 6, 8, 10, or 16, a free kick shall be awarded to the opposite side, [emphasis added]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281905%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"The Revised Laws of Football: Free Kick and Penalty Kick". Evening Telegraph. Dundee. 27 July 1938. p. 7.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Evening+Telegraph&rft.atitle=The+Revised+Laws+of+Football%3A+Free+Kick+and+Penalty+Kick&rft.pages=7&rft.date=1938-07-27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1937min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1937 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1937+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=5&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1937min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1929min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1929"</a> (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1929&rft.pages=2&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1929min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1974min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1974"</a> (PDF). p. 5 [p. 6 of the PDF]. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1974&rft.pages=5+p.+6+of+the+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1974min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1986min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1986"</a> (PDF). pp. 4-5 [pp. 7-8 of the PDF]. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1986&rft.pages=4-5+pp.+7-8+of+the+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1986min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1987app.pdf">"Approved Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1987"</a> (PDF). p. 32 [p. 34 of the PDF]. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Approved+Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1987&rft.pages=32+p.+34+of+the+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1987app.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47503194/no-offside-at-free-kicks-experiment/">"FA told to bring back red cards"</a>. The Guardian: 28. 15 June 1987.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=FA+told+to+bring+back+red+cards&rft.pages=28&rft.date=1987-06-15&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fclip%2F47503194%2Fno-offside-at-free-kicks-experiment%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1988min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1988"</a> (PDF). pp. 12–13. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1988&rft.pages=12-13&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1988min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1951min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1951 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 3. <q>the following new offence to be punished by an indirect free-kick: (3) When not playing the ball, intentionally obstructing an opponent</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1951+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1951min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-112"><a href="#cite_ref-112">^</a> In 2016, impeding an opponent with contact was made a direct free kick offence </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_2016-113">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2016_113-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_2016_113-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/60/Laws%20of%20the%20Game_16-17_Digital_Eng.pdf">"Laws of the Game 2016/17"</a> (PDF). p. 82. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160911032912/http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/60/Laws%20of%20the%20Game_16-17_Digital_Eng.pdf">Archived</a> (PDF) from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+2016%2F17&rft.pages=82&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic-3eb8.kxcdn.com%2Fdocuments%2F60%2FLaws%2520of%2520the%2520Game_16-17_Digital_Eng.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1948min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1948 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 5. <q>CHARGES FAIRLY ... WHEN THE BALL IS NOT WITHIN PLAYING DISTANCE OF THE PLAYERS CONCERNED AND THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT ATTEMPTING TO PLAY IT</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1948+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=5&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1948min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-charging_1997-115">^ <a href="#cite_ref-charging_1997_115-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-charging_1997_115-1">b</a> In 1997, this was abolished as a separate offence; all forms of charging an opponent "in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless, or involving excessive force" became punishable by a direct free-kick </li> <li id="cite_note-laws_1997-116">^ <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1997_116-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-laws_1997_116-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1997min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1997 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 25 [p. 129 of the PDF]. Retrieved 1 February 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1997+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=p.+25+p.+129+of+the+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1997min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a> this became a separate offence in 2016: before then, it was included under dangerous play </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1907)">Laws of the Game (1907) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>17: In the event of any infringement of Laws 5, 6, 8, 10, or 16, or of a player being sent off the field under Law 13, a free kick shall be awarded to the opposite side [emphasis added]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281907%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a> with the exception, from 1938-1969, of a caution for a player entering or leaving the field of play without the referee's permission: in this case play was restarted with a dropped ball </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1934min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1934"</a> (PDF). p. 3 [p. 4 of PDF]. Retrieved 9 February 2020. <q>Law 13: Decision of the International Board:— If a game has been stopped in consequence of ungentlemanly behaviour by a player, it must be resumed by a free kick in favour of the opposite side, whether the player has only been cautioned or sent off the field</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1934&rft.pages=p.+3+p.+4+of+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1934min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1967min.pdf">"Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the International Football Association Board 1967"</a> (PDF). p. 7. Retrieved 9 February 2020. <q>When playing as goalkeeper [...] indulges in tactics which, in the opinion of the Referee, are designed merely to hold up the game and thus waste time and so give an unfair advantage to his own team [...] shall be penalised by the award of an indirect free kick</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Minutes+of+the+Annual+Meeting+of+the+International+Football+Association+Board+1967&rft.pages=7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1967min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1882)">Laws of the Game (1882) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281882%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1887)">Laws of the Game (1887) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>In the event of any infringement of rules 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, a free kick shall be forfeited to the opposite side, from the spot where the infringement took place [emphasis added].</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281887%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1903)">Laws of the Game (1903) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>[Law 2] Decision of International Board:-- If this law is not complied with, the kick-off must be taken over again</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281903%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1905)">Laws of the Game (1905) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>[Law 10]: When a free kick has been awarded, the kicker's opponents shall not approach within 6 yards of the ball unless they are standing on their own goal-line. The ball must at least be rolled over before it shall be considered played; i.e., it must make a complete circuit or travel the distance of its circumference. The kicker shall not play the ball a second time until it has been played by another player. The kick-off (except as provided by Law 2), corner-kick, and goal-kick, shall be free kicks within the meaning of this Law. [Law 17]: In the event of any infringement of Laws 5, 6, 8, 10, or 16, a free kick shall be awarded to the opposite side, [emphasis added]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281905%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1937min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1937 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 5. <q>Delete the words 'and goal-kick'</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1937+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=5&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1937min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssbra.org/ifab/assets/pdf/1973min.pdf">"International Football Association Board: 1973 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting"</a> (PDF). p. 13 [p. 14 of PDF]. Retrieved 27 December 2019. <q>For any other infringement the kick shall be retaken</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=International+Football+Association+Board%3A+1973+Minutes+of+the+Annual+General+Meeting&rft.pages=p.+13+p.+14+of+PDF&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fssbra.org%2Fifab%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2F1973min.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1882)">Laws of the Game (1882) </a> – via <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. <q>In the event of any infringement of Rules 5, 6, 8, or 9, 12, or 14, a free kick shall be forfeited to the opposite side from the spot where the infringement took place.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Laws+of+the+Game+%281882%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Football". Carluke and Lanark Gazette: 3. 19 June 1931.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Carluke+and+Lanark+Gazette&rft.atitle=Football&rft.pages=3&rft.date=1931-06-19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFree+kick+%28association+football%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a> For a free-kick after touchdown, the kick had to be taken from 15 yards (14 m) from the goal-line, with opponents being behind the goal-line. 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