Penalty kicks: What, when, why and other rules | Qatar World Cup 2022

Your coronary heart is in your throat, the underside has dropped out of your abdomen.

Ordinarily calm and rational, you have got turn into an electrical bag of nerves held collectively by the best thread of hope, slowly unravelled by despair. It’s a World Cup penalty shootout.

For a staff recreation, it’s the last word duel with victory or defeat using on a single boot or glove.

The penalty shootout format was solely adopted in 1970 and didn’t attain the World Cup till the semi-final of Spain 1982 when West Germany knocked out France 5-4.

It’s thrilling, it’s devastating, it creates heroes of saviour keepers and villains of strikers who miss.

These are cut up seconds that outline complete careers.

What’s a penalty kick?

Penalty kicks are direct free kicks taken from a spot 11 metres (12 yards) in entrance of the centre of the purpose.

Throughout a match, they’re awarded to an attacking staff for a foul dedicated towards them within the 18-yard field, or “penalty space” – a marked area of the pitch extending 16.5 metres (18 yards) out from every goalpost, and 16.5 metres in depth.

What ends in a penalty being awarded?

• Intentionally touching the ball with a hand or arm (aside from the goalkeeper)
• Careless, reckless, or extreme use of power to cost, soar, kick, problem, push, strike, or kick an attacking participant
• Holding an opponent
• Spitting at or biting an opponent or official
• Throwing one thing on the ball, opponent, or official, or hitting an object with the ball with

What occurs when it’s awarded?

• The ball is positioned on the penalty spot no matter the place the foul occurred.
• The penalty taker is recognized to the referee.
• All gamers aside from the kicker and the keeper should depart the penalty space, standing behind the spot, and a minimal of 9.15 metres (10 yards) from the spot. Throughout penalty shoot-outs, all gamers stay within the central circle in the midst of the pitch.
• The goalkeeper might transfer earlier than the ball is kicked, however should keep on the purpose line, going through the kicker, with out touching the goalposts, crossbar or web.
• The referee blows a whistle to announce the kick must be taken.
• As soon as the kicker reaches the ball, their final step and kick should be in a single fluid movement.
• When the kick is taken, the keeper should be touching the purpose line.

The foundations

• The ball should be stationary on the spot earlier than the kick
• The ball should journey ahead
• Different gamers should not enter the penalty space till the ball has been kicked
• The kicker should not kick the ball a second time until it has been touched by one other participant
• Solely the participant recognized to the referee might take the penalty kick
• The kicker should not feint on the finish of their run-up

What occurs if penalty guidelines are damaged?

Relying on the foul and final result, the next might apply:

When did penalties turn into a factor?

Regardless of the legal guidelines of the sport being codified in 1863, it was not till the Irish Soccer Affiliation introduced the concept to the Worldwide Soccer Affiliation Board in 1891 that penalty kicks turned part of soccer.

At the moment, a penalty kick was awarded for foul play dedicated inside 11metres (12 yards) of the purpose line (the 18-yard field not being a part of soccer till 1902). It is also taken from any level alongside the width of the pitch on that 11-metre line.

When are penalty shoot-outs used?

A shootout is used to tie-break a match that has led to a draw.

On the knockout matches in a event, together with the World Cup, if a recreation within the knock-out phases has an equal variety of objectives scored after 90 minutes of play, an extra half-hour is performed, with the groups switching ends throughout a brief break after quarter-hour. If, on the finish of this additional time, the scores stay even, a penalty shootout is held.