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• Futsal is an exciting, fast-paced small sided soccer game that is played across
the world and is officially recognized by both FIFA and UEFA.

Futsal earned the status of FIFA’s official form of indoor soccer in the 1980s as it
was recognized as a scaled down version of outdoor soccer played indoors. It is
a 5 v 5 small-sided game played on a hard surfaced, basketball sized court with a
smaller, low bounce ball. Futsal is played with touchline boundaries and without
walls.
• Futsal places a large emphasis on technical skill in high pressure situations which
can be translated into the outdoor game. The sport is a great skill developer as it
demands quick reflexes, fast thinking and pin-point passing.
• Futsal is played in all the continents of the world by over 100 countries with 12
million players. Great soccer superstars such as Pele, Zico, Ronaldo, Messi,
Kaka and Katia grew up playing the game and credit futsal with developing their
skills.
• "Futsal" started in 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani, a teacher
in Montevideo, Uruguay, created a version of indoor football for
recreation in YMCAs. This new sport was originally developed for
playing on basketball courts, and a rule book was published in
September 1933.
• Football was already highly popular in the country and
after Uruguay won the 1930 World Cup and gold medals in
the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, it attracted even more
practitioners. Ceriani's goal was to create a team game that could
be played indoor or outdoor but that was similar to football.
•Ceriani, writing the rule book, took as examples the
principles of football (the possibility to touch the ball
with every part of the body except for the hands), and
he took rules from other sports too: from basketball the
number of team players (five) and the game duration
(40 actual minutes); from water polo the rules about
the goalkeeper; from team handball for the field and
goal sizes.
• The YMCA spread the game immediately throughout South
America. It was easily played by everyone, everywhere, and in
any weather condition, without any difficulty, helping players to
stay in shape all year round. These reasons convinced João
Lotufo, a Brazilian, to bring this game to his country and adapt it
to the needs of physical education.
• Initially, the rules were not uniform. In 1956, the rules were
modified by Habib Maphuz and Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira
Fernandes within the YMCA of São Paulo, Brazil to allow
seniors to compete. Luiz de Oliveira wrote the Book of Rules of
Futsal in 1956, then adopted also at the international level.
• In 1965, the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol de
Salón [pt] (South American Futsal Confederation) was formed,
consisting of Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Argentina and Brazil.
• Shortly after, a unique tournament was organized. It attracted some interest in
South American media, which regularly began to follow futsal. In particular, it was
the journalist José Antônio Inglêz who passionately contributed to the rapid spread
of the game, as well as being credited as the man who coined the name “futsal” to
define the sport.
• The sport began to spread across South America, and its popularity ensured the
formation of a governing body in São Paulo in 1971, under the name of Federación
Internacional de Fútbol de Salón (FIFUSA). FIFUSA initially comprised
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, and Uruguay, along with the
World Championships. The new institution counted 32 participating countries and
its first President was João Havelange joined by the secretary Luiz Gonzaga de
Oliveira. In 1975, the Federation's chief passed to FIFA, and in 1980, Januário
D'Alessio Neto was elected to work to make this sport recognized worldwide by
supranational bodies.
• The first FIFUSA World Championships were held in São Paulo,
Brazil, in 1982 with the hosting Brazilian team crowned champions
against Paraguay in front of an audience of 12,000 people, with
Uruguay placing third. The Federation then began to work to bring
the big event to Europe.
• In 1985, the second futsal World Cup was organized
in Madrid, Spain, where the Brazilian team won again. The event
was a success, with a considerable media interest and a huge
response from the audience, thanks to the Spanish TV station that
filmed the event.
• In 1985, Joseph Blatter, at that time secretary of football's governing
body, FIFA, thought it was the right time to enlarge its influence and
therefore also deal with indoor football. Knowing that the Federation
President João Havelange was the head of FIFUSA from 1971 to
1974, the Swiss decided to summon in Brazil the world governing
body of futsal: Surprisingly, the Congress voted against the
unification. Due to a dispute between FIFA and FIFUSA over the
name of fútbol, FIFUSA has registered the word fut-sal in 1985
(Madrid, Spain).
• FIFA wanted to promote and spread its own version of indoor football,
different from the original one played in the South American countries, but
they could not manage to come to an agreement with FIFUSA in the Rio
de Janeiro Congress in 1989.
• On 2 May 1990, the Brazilian federation finally broke away from FIFUSA,
and on 25 September, an event in Bogotá, Colombia contributed to the
founding of the Confederación Panamericana de Futbol de Salon
(PANAFUTSAL) together
with Paraguay, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa
Rica, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba,
and Canada.
• The conference held in Guatemala in 2000 between members of
PANAFUTSAL and FIFA focused on the resolution of the dispute between the
two institutions and on the achievement of futsal in the pure version that
excited many in South America. The signing of the Protocol, however, was not
followed by concrete actions. FIFA kept on promoting its version of futsal. So
the PANAFUTSAL decided to create a new worldwide body for the
preservation of futsal.
• In December 2002, the Asociación Mundial de Futsal (AMF) was founded. It is
currently composed of 40 national federations and three continental bodies,
one of which was FIFS.
• In 2002, members of PANAFUTSAL formed AMF, an international futsal
governing body independent of FIFA, in reaction to the alleged stagnancy of
futsal under FIFUSA. Both FIFA and AMF continue to administer the game.
• Teams are comprised of four outfield players and one goalkeeper.
• There are no throw-ins in futsal. A kick-in will be used to restart play.
• There is no offsides in futsal.
• Teams are entitled to a one minute timeout in each half. Timeouts are allowed when
the team is in possession and ball is out of play.
• There are no goal kicks in futsal. Goalkeepers restart play by distributing ball with
their hands.
• Substitutions may occur any time during the run of play. Substitutions must be made
through the technical area in front of the team's bench, not at half court.
• Direct free-kick fouls are accumulated in each half. If one team accumulates 6 or
more direct free-kick fouls in one half, the opposing team will be awarded a direct
free-kick.
Substitutions
• All substitutions are on the fly, this includes goalkeeping substitutions. Referees
will not stop play for goalkeeping substitutions. A substitute may not enter the
pitch until the player leaving the pitch leaves through the substitution zone in front
of his teams’ bench. Any substitute who enters the pitch before the player being
replaced has completely left the field of play may be shown a yellow card. All
substitutions must take place through the substitution zone in front of his teams’
bench -- not at the half-way line.
• Teams will switch benches (and ends) at halftime, ensuring that all substitutions
take place in the defensive half.
• Kick-offs: A goal may be scored directly against the opponent from the kick-off. The ball is in play when it
is kicked and clearly moves.
• Kick-ins: are indirect. The ball must be placed on the line and the kick must be taken within 4 seconds. A
kick-in that goes directly in the opposing goal is a goal clearance for the opposing team. A kick-in that
goes directly in the defensive goal is a corner kick of the opposing team. If the kick-in does not enter the
pitch or if the kick is not taken within 4 seconds, the ball is turned over to the opponent.
• Goal Clearances: are awarded when the ball exits the court beyond the end-line. The ball is thrown or
released from any point within the penalty area by the goalkeeper of the defending team. The ball must be
released within 4 seconds (either at referee signal or as goalkeeper is ready). Opponents must be outside
the penalty area until the ball is in play.
• Corner Kicks: are direct. The ball must be placed in the corner arc area and the kick must be taken within
4 seconds. If the kick is not taken within 4 seconds the restart becomes a goal clearance for the opposing
team.
• Free Kicks: may be indirect or direct. The ball must be stationary before the kick may be taken.
• Penalty Kicks: are taken from the penalty spot and must be taken by a clearly identified kicker.
Defenders may not be nearer to the ball than 16 feet and even or behind the ball when the kick is taken.
• Indirect Free Kicks: When a player plays in a dangerous manner, impedes an opponent,
prevents the goalkeeper from releasing the ball with her hands, goalkeeper takes more than
4 seconds to release the ball when in possession in his own half, plays the ball again within
his own half after releasing the ball and the ball doesn’t touch an opponent or has gone out
of play, or commits any offense for which play is stopped to caution or eject a player, an
indirect free kick is awarded.
• Direct Free Kicks: When a player kicks an opponent, tackles an opponent, trips an
opponent, jumps at an opponent, charges an opponent, strikes an opponent, pushes an
opponent, holds an opponent, spits at an opponent or handles the ball deliberately, a direct
free kick is awarded.
• Yellow Card / Caution: The offending player is shown a yellow card. If a player is shown
two yellow cards in a match, he is shown a red card.
• Red Card / Send-off: The offending team plays with one less player for two full game
minutes or unless scored upon before the two-minute penalty expires. The offending player
serves a minimum one-match suspension.
• Accumulated Fouls: All direct free kick fouls are recorded on the scoresheet and on the
scoreboard. If one team accumulates 6 or more direct free kick fouls in one half, the
opposing team will take a direct free kick without a wall. If the foul occurs farther from the
attacking goal than the second penalty spot, the Direct Free Kick Without a Wall is taken
from the second penalty spot.
• If the foul occurs nearer to the attacking goal than the second penalty spot (but outside the
penalty area, of course), the attacking team may choose whether to take the Direct Free
Kick Without a Wall from the second penalty spot or from the spot of the foul. All Direct Free
Kicks Without a Wall must be kicked with the intention of scoring a goal by a clearly
identified kicker.
• The defending team may not make a wall and may not be nearer to the ball than 16 feet
and even or behind the ball when the kick is taken. The goalkeeper may be off the goal-line
but may not be nearer than 16 feet from the ball. Accumulated fouls are reset to zero at the
beginning of the second half and carry over into extra-time if being played.
• Penalty Spot: 5 meters (~16 feet) from goal-line and the center of the
goal and placed at the top of the penalty area line.
• Second Penalty Spot: 10 meters (~32 feet) from goal-line and the
center of the goal.
• Advantage: Advantage is applied in Futsal. Direct free kick foul will
count as accumulated fouls if advantage is applied even if play is not
stopped by the referees. If the referee gestures with both arms, the
foul was a direct free kick foul and will be counted accordingly. If the
gesture is with one arm, the free kick would have been indirect and
will not count as an accumulated foul.
• Must wear a different color shirt.
• He/she may wear long pants and/or other padding as deemed safe by the match referee.
• May receive a kick-in directly.
• May kick the ball directly over the half-way line.
• May score directly with his/her feet during the run of play.
• May not possess the ball for more than four seconds in his/her own half.
• May throw the ball directly across the half-way line.
• May not score a goal by using the hands (cannot throw or hit the ball directly into the goal)
• Cannot touch the ball again in any way within his own half after releasing the ball into play
unless an opponent has touched it or it has gone out of play.
Non - International Matches International Matches

Length: Length:
Minimum 25m (82 feet) Minimum 38m (124.6 feet)
Maximum 42m (137.8 feet) Maximum 42m (137.8 feet)

Width: Width:
Minimum 16m (52.5 feet) Minimum 20m (65.6 feet)
Maximum 25m (82 feet) Maximum 25m (82 feet)
• The pitch shall be marked with lines. These lines
belong to the areas of which they are boundaries.
The two longer boundary lines are called touch
lines. The two shorter lines are called goal lines.

All lines shall be 8 cm wide. The pitch shall be

divided into two halves by the halfway line. The
centre mark shall be indicated at the midpoint of
the halfway line. A circle with a radius of 3m (9.8
feet) shall be marked around it
• The Penalty Area shall be marked out at each end of
the pitch as follows:
• Quarter circles, with a 6m (18 feet) radius, shall be
drawn centred on the outside of each goal post. The
quarter circles shall be drawn from the goal line to meet
two imaginary lines 6m (19.6 feet) in length drawn at
right angles to the goal line from the outside of the
goalpost. The upper part of each quarter circle shall be
joined by a 3.16-m (10.3 feet) line running parallel to the
goal line between the goalposts. The curved line
marking the outer limit of the penalty area is known as
the penalty area line.
• The Penalty Mark A mark shall be drawn 6m (19.6
feet) from the midpoint between the goalposts and
equidistant from them.
• The Second Penalty Mark A second mark shall be
drawn on the pitch 10m (32.8 feet) from the midpoint
between the goalposts and equidistant from them.
• The Substitution Zones are the areas on
the touch line in front of the team benches
that the players shall use to enter and leave
the pitch.
• The substitution zones are situated in front of
the team benches and are 5m (16.4 feet) in
length. They shall be marked at each end
with a line 8 cm wide and 80 cm in length, 40
cm of which is drawn onthe pitch and 40 cm
off the pitch the area in front of the
timekeeper’s table 5m (16.4 feet) to either
side of the halfway line shall be kept clear.
• The Goals shall be placed in the middle of each
goal line. They shall consist of two upright posts
equidistant from each corner and joined at the top
by a horizontal crossbar.
• The distance (inside measurement) between the
posts shall be 3m (9.8 feet) and the distance from
the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground shall
be 2m (6.5 feet).
• The goalposts and the crossbar shall have the same width and depth, 8 cm. The goal
lines shall be the same width as the goalposts and the crossbar. Nets, made of hemp,
jute or nylon, shall be attached to the back of the goalposts and crossbar. The lower
part of the nets shall be attached to curved tubing or another suitable means of
support.
• The depth of the goal, i.e. the distance between the inside edge of the goalposts and
the back of the net, shall be at least 80 cm at the top and 100 cm at ground level.
• The futsal ball is a low-bounce ball that is smaller than a normal outdoor soccer ball.
The futsal ball's properties are specifically designed to develop skills. When a futsal ball is
received via a good pass, it virtually "sticks to the foot.“
• The ball must be:
✓Spherical;
✓Made of suitable material;
✓Circumference of between 62cm and 64cm;
✓Between 400g and 440g in weight at the start of the match;
✓Pressure equal to 0.6-0.9atm (600-900g/cm2 ) at sea level.
The ball must not bounce lower than 50cm or higher than 65cm on the first rebound when dropped
from a height of 2m. All balls used in matches played in an official competition organized under the
auspices of FIFA or confederations must meet the requirements and bear one of the marks of the
FIFA Quality Program for Footballs.