Competitions

Each team must have at least 3 players to take part in the match.

• A player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to themselves or another player (including any kind of jewellery).
• Referees will check all players for shinpads prior to commencing play.
• Each team must wear colours that are distinguishable from each other and the referee.  Similarly goalkeepers should wear colours that distinguish them from all other players and the referee.

• At start and restarts, the ball must move forward after the whistle is blown.
• A goal may not be scored directly from the kick-off.

The ball is out of play when:

• It has wholly crossed the goal line or touch line whether on the ground or in the air
• Play has been stopped by the referees
• It hits the ceiling (restart is from the touch line nearest to where it hit the ceiling)

There is no offside in futsal

• A direct free kick is awarded if the following is done carelessly, excessively or recklessly:
  • Kicks/strikes an opponent (or attempts to)
  • Trips an opponent
  • Jumps at an opponent
  • Charges an opponent
  • Pushes an opponent
  • Tackles an opponent.
• A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following three offences:
  • Holds an opponent
  • Spits at an opponent
  • Handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)
• A penalty kick is awarded if any of the above ten offences is committed by a player inside their own penalty area, irrespective of the position of the ball, provided it is in play.
• An indirect free kick is awarded if the goalkeeper:
  • Controls the ball in their own half with their hands or feet, for more than four (4) seconds
  • Touches the ball again in their own half after a team mate deliberately plays it to them without an opponent having touched it (two touch rule)
  • Touches the ball with their hands (inside the penalty area) after it has been deliberately kicked to them by a team mate
  • Touches the ball with their hands (inside the penalty area) after receiving it directly from a kick-in by a team mate
• There are also to be no slide tackles (Ipswich Futsal Competition Rule).

• At a kick-in opponents must be at least 5m away.
• The ball must be within 25cm of the line at the point where it crossed the line, and the player must have their standing foot on or behind the line, and must take the kick-in within four (4) seconds.
• If the ball does not enter the pitch from a kick-in, the referee shall order a player from the opposing team to take it.
• A goal may not be scored directly from a kick-in.

• The Goalkeeper must throw the ball directly out of the penalty area within four (4) seconds of being ready to do so.
• The Goalkeeper cannot touch the ball again until an opponent makes contact with it (two touch rule).
• The Goalkeeper can throw to wherever on the court but a goal cannot be scored directly from the clearance.

• The corner kick must be taken within four (4) seconds.
• Opponents must be at least 5m away.