Rules of the Game: The referee alone is authorized to allow an injured player to re-enter the field, whether the ball is in play or not.
Rules of the Game: For FIFA matches, if a substitute enters the field of play without the referee’s permission, play is stopped, the substitute is cautioned, shown the yellow card and required to leave the field of play. Play is restarted with a dropped b
Rules of the Game: A match may not start if either team consists of fewer than seven players.
Goalkeeper is the only position to be explicitly part of the rules of the game since they were codified in the 19th century.
The first recorded women's soccer game took place on March 23, 1895.
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