Questions tagged [football]
Questions about the sport of football, also known as soccer, futbol, association football, etc. Not to be confused with "American football" which is contained under the [american-football] tag.
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As an assistant coach, what is the best way to suggest a change to the coach?
I'm helping coach a U10 youth soccer team and ONE of the pain points for me is how frequently kids are subbed in. While all players play roughly half the game, there are only 2 substitutions made ...
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Has players coming to plead their case ever get a call rescinded?
Haven't watched a lot of soccer, but when a player gets given a card, you always see their team just start to huddle around the ref and it seems like try to plead their case?
But in the amount of ...
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What are the different blows of the whistle of football (soccer) for a foul, start of game, end, ect
I am going to be playing football (soccer) with my friends, and I'm referee. I need to know what the different whistle blows. Please can anyone help?
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Advantage is given after a reckless slide tackle and the affected team scores. Yellow still to be given?
Orange team commits a yellow card slide tackle on blue, but play is allowed on through advantage. The blue team scores.
Should the orange player still receive a yellow card for the challenge?
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Most hat-tricks in a single gameweek
During Gameweek 4 of the 2023/4 Premier League season, there were 3 separate hat-trick scorers:
Son Heung-Min (Burnley vs Tottenham Hotspur)
Erling Haaland (Manchester City vs Fulham)
Evan Ferguson (...
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Are there any UEFA regulations for longer added time in football?
Recently we can see matches getting longer and longer. It started with Qatar and FIFA asking referees to prolong added time as much as possible, if there were any delays. Apparently more than 9 hours ...
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What's the highest percentage of a team's goals in one season to have been scored by one player?
This question was prompted by me watching Ted Lasso. I'm four episodes into Season 3 and it's strongly implied that new signing Zava has scored all of Richmond's goals up to this point. It occurred to ...
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Have all promoted teams from one season of the united German Bundesliga ever been relegated in the following season?
Have all the promoted teams in one season ecer been relegated in the following season?
The most recent season when this "almost" happened was 2012/13, when two previously promoted teams got ...
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Hitting a ball while gaolkeeper is kicking it [duplicate]
In football is it allowed to snatch a ball that the gaolkeeper is kicking which is in mid air
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Are people saying "It's coming home" in England for the women's world cup, somewhat comparably as they do for the men's world cup?
Or maybe is it not the same trophy, what 'it' is referring to (though I would think the cup Brazil got to keep was that anyways)? This saying gets said a lot during the men's world cup, there's even a ...
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Is a free kick justified in this situation?
I encountered a frustrating scenario in a soccer match that I would like your opinions about. During a play, the attacking player prepared to take a shot, but I was quicker and managed to kick the ...
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Why do goalkeepers wear highly-visible strips?
I understand the need to have a strip that differentiates goalkeepers from outfield players, but success in top-flight sport often depends on taking advantage of fine margins.
Surely being highly-...
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Qualification of tournament [duplicate]
We played a tournament with 9 teams so the best looser is supposed to play the last team . We played and lost 1-0 and the other losers played and lost 2-1, 3-1 and 4-0. So who are supposed to qualify.
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What is the percentage of goals scored in extra time in the top 5 European leagues?
I was wondering what the percentage of goals scored in added time (45+1', 45+2', 45+3', ..., 90+1', 90+2', 90+3', ...) is. Are there any statistics showing this?
Ideally, I would be interested in ...
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How much independence do continental and national confederations have to set rules different to FIFA's?
Since it started, football has had many changes, many of them introduced by FIFA such as red cards, offsides, goalkeepers not being allowed to handle backpasses, VAR, etc. VAR, for example, is not ...
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How much does it cost on average a ticket for a World Cup Qualification game in South America?
In South America (CONMEBOL Confederation) there is only one round of games where everyone plays twice with everyone.
My question is, how much did a ticket cost for the last qualifiers, for 2022 World ...
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Can Liechtensteiner clubs compete in the UEFA Champions League?
I wonder if Liechtensteiner football clubs can compete in the UEFA Champions League?
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Do matches from the CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions count for the FIFA ranking?
I was watching a Youtube video where a non professional soccer commentator stated that the CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions is "not considered official by FIFA", whatever that meant to him. ...
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Can the goalkeeper grab the ball while his teammate is trying to kick the ball out?
Can a goalkeeper grab the ball by his hands while the ball is in play inside his penalty area and it's under control of his teammate and his teammate is trying to kick the ball out?
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How many players have won both the senior FIFA world cup and the U-20 FIFA world cup? [duplicate]
So far I know of 5 players who won both the senior FIFA world cup and the U-20 FIFA world cup. Messi, Di María, Maradona, Dida and Xavi. I thought perhaps there are more from Brazil or something, ...
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Given these results, how would these teams be ranked in the UEFA European Championship?
Hypothetically, let's say England, Portugal, Croatia and Israel are drawn together for the UEFA Euro 2024 tournament. Let's also assume that the teams have a European Qualification Ranking of 5, 8, 6 ...
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How often has a team beaten another team from the same league four times in a season?
Manchester United have beaten Nottingham Forest four times in the 2022/2023 season. Twice in the League Cup Semifinal and twice in the league.
I was wondering how often something like this has ...
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What does "chi" mean in football fan language?
In an English football match, a player left the pitch, giving the impression that he had been injured by another player, then went along the goal line and returned to the pitch without an injury. A ...
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In soccer, what's it called when the defender steals the ball by planting their foot and stopping the ball entirely? [duplicate]
In soccer, is there a name for the maneuver where a defender plants their foot directly in front of the ball?
That is, the attacker is dribbling or going for a kick and, rather than trying to steal ...
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Why does Venezuelan national football team wear burgundy uniform?
Usually, a national football team's uniform color uses the nation's flag color.
The Venezuelan national football team, however, wears a burgundy color uniform which has nothing to do with their flag.
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Soccer Offsides [duplicate]
I have a question about offsides like in the picture below. Let's say 2 offensive players are in a 2 vs 1 against goalkeeper... they already beat last defender. The offensive player then passes the ...
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Has there been a football (soccer) player with first name, full stop and first letter of surname on the kit?
For some reason I assume to have seen someone with the name in this style on the shirt, but I cannot remember the name. For example, Lionel Messi would be:
LIONEL.M
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What does the "big chances created" stats mean in Soccer?
There is a stats which is appearing frequently lately in soccer websites, which is named "big chances created", probably taken from one of those companies making statistics from the matches. ...
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IFFHS football club rankings formula?
https://www.iffhs.com/posts/2486
There is a football club rankings for almost all the clubs.
Is there a formula for calculating the points for these rankings?
I searched for it but could never find it....
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Trade period (winter and summer) for Korean football league
When do the winter and summer trade periods start and end for the Korean professional football leagues League 1 and 2?
Are they the same as European leagues?
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Which considerations are there to measure soccer players's top speeds?
I was seeing some videos of Nahuel Molina amazing speed in the second goal in the match Argentina vs Croatia in the world cup 2022. I decided to look how fast he was compared to others, and it's ...
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Did José Manuel Moreno indeed score 850 goals in his career?
José Manuel Moreno was a player in Argentina who, in the early 1980s, received an award as the best Argentine player in history (over Alfredo Di Stéfano, the only Super Ballon d'Or player in world ...
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Can the referee give a red card for an incident that happens after the end of a match?
In football, if team A wins and a player from team A mocks team B for losing (call them a idiot team, non-fair-play attitude, etc.) can the referee give a red card to that player after the match ends?
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What's the furthest a player has run in a single match?
For a while now, football matches have recorded how far each player has run. This link states that N’golo Kante (Chelsea) ran 306.7 km in 26 matches, for an average of 7.33 miles per game.
How about ...
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Has VAR been used less frequently in the 2022 World Cup than in the English Premier League?
My impression is that there has been much less use of VAR in Qatar than typically is the case in Premier League matches.
Is this an accurate perception? If so, has there been a deliberate policy on ...
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How far down the list of tiebreakers has FIFA gone for the World Cup?
According to Wikipedia, FIFA uses the following list of tiebreakers when deciding who qualifies to participate in the World Cup (i.e. who gets to compete in the World Cup at all, not who qualifies ...
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How are jerseys decided in the World Cup? [duplicate]
Been watching the replay of ARG-CRO and the question popped to me: They both have, in their main colors, mostly white shirts. So a team had to yield and go to their secondaries.
How is that decided? ...
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In a soccer/football game, have all 22 players ever been on the same half of the pitch at the same time?
In soccer, when one team is dominating in attack, it's not uncommon to see that team have almost all of its players up forward, and the defending team all staying on their half. This is especially ...
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Why do players leave the World Cup host nation as soon as their team is eliminated?
I have observed consistently that as soon as a team is knocked out of the World Cup, they are immediately flown away from the host nation.
Why do players leave the host nation as soon as their team is ...
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How many assists did Pelé give in world cups?
I've found 3 different statistics for Pelé assists in world cups. One puts him as the all time top assist provider, another with a shared record, and another with no record at all.
This source, Most ...
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Can defenders hold each other in the air at a free kick?
I have noticed players standing in a line to block free kicks in the World Cup, with some teams choosing to have a player lay along the ground to block lower shots.
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Highest Goal Difference to be knocked out of the World Cup at the Group Stage
During the final games of the group stages at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, for 3 brief minutes in Group E, both Spain and Germany were in line to be knocked out of the World Cup.
During those 3 minutes, ...
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Can a North Korean team play in the AFC Champions League?
I heard that a North Korean team played in the AFC Cup, which is a second-tier club competition in Asia.
However, I have never seen a North Korean club playing in the AFC Champions League.
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How does South Korean football league work?
When I see this standings of the South Korean football league,
https://www.soccerstats.com/latest.asp?league=southkorea
I see the Championship group and the Relegation group.
What are they?
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Are the actual lines on the ground defined by the actual white paint on the grass or by some laser beam?
Follow-up of Why was Japan's second goal in the WC 2022 Japan-Spain match deemed to be valid?: are the actual lines on the ground defined by the actual white paint on the grass or by some laser ...
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When was the last time no team won 3 games in a world cup group stage?
In the 2022 Qatar World Cup, not a single team managed to win their 3 games in the group stage and earn 9 points. Thinking back, I can't recall any world cup which I remember that this happened.
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Has there ever been 3 goals in the same match with the same scorer and assister?
Has there ever been 3 (or more) goals in the same match with not only had the same scorer for each, but where all assisted by the same player?
In other-words a hat-trick for both goals and assists.
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Do the 2022 FIFA World Cup ball sensors track the ball's location, and if so, how accurate is it?
Follow-up of Why was Japan's second goal deemed to be valid?: do the 2022 FIFA World Cup ball sensors track the ball's location, and if so, how accurate is it?
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Why was Japan's second goal in the WC 2022 Japan-Spain match deemed to be valid?
During the 2022 FIFA World Cup match between Japan and Spain, Japan's second goal, scored by Ao Tanaka, was scored after the ball had seemingly gone out of play and been dragged back in by Kaoru ...
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Can I cause a foul in soccer/football if contact is only made with the ball and not the player?
Multiple times against the same striker in a casual game, he ran straight at me (defender who has played international tournaments) at fast speed and did a last minute slight direction change. I have ...
