IFAB has now decided that if a penalty taker accidentally makes contact with the ball with both feet, and the kick is successful, it must now be retaken — a change from the previous rule which ...

Once the referee has signalled for a penalty kick to be taken, the kick must be taken; if it is not taken the referee may take disciplinary action before signalling again for the kick to be taken. If, ...

This article has been updated to reflect UEFA confirming it will ask for a review of the ‘two-touch penalty’ law. “Surely not, on a night like this….” Steve McManaman’s commentary on ...

The decision followed the same IFAB rule that was applied to Julián Álvarez’s case—penalty takers cannot touch the ball twice ...

If this happens in regulation, the team defending the penalty receives a free kick for the double touch. But as rule 10.3 states, "if the kicker is penalized for an offense committed after the ...

Video review (VAR) detected that he touched the ball twice and the referee ruled the shot a miss under Law 14, which deals with the penalty kick. Real went on to win 4-2.

Penalty kicks are awarded when "direct kick" infractions occur within the penalty area. The ball is placed on the 12-yard mark and a player has a free shot against the goalkeeper with all other ...

The defending team can also ground the ball in their in-goal area for a drop-out if a player on the other side was the last person to touch the ball. Once the ball has been touched down, a player from ...

A free kick is often a scoring opportunity, a chance to change the game or even history. But what’s the difference between a direct and indirect free kick in soccer?

In the end, a penalty kick is never just a kick. It’s theatre. It’s a chess match played out in real time, with courage, fear, cunning, and instinct all colliding at once.

Alvarez slipped as he netted his penalty kick in a shooutout to decide a Champions League derby against Real Madrid. Video review (VAR) detected that he had touched the ball twice and the referee ...

Brud pointed out that even an accidental second touch could be unfair to a goalkeeper because it changes the ball’s trajectory. Therefore, he wrote, IFAB had decided that “if the kick is ...