Small Sided Football - Laws of the Game

Kicks From The Penalty Mark Procedure

Taking kicks from the penalty mark is a method of determining the winning team where competition rules require there to be a winning team after a match has been drawn

Procedure

• The referee chooses the goal at which the kicks will be taken
• The referee tosses a coin and the team whose captain wins the toss decides whether to take the first or second kick.
• The referee keeps a record of the kicks being taken
• In principle each team takes five kicks, depending on the circumstances described hereafter
• The kicks are taken alternately
• The names of the players taking the kicks are announced to the referee by the captains of each team before the kicks from the penalty mark are taken and must be among those included on the list of players submitted before the match.  Only those players on the pitch at the completion of the game are eligible to take part in Kicks from the Penalty Mark
• Where a player(s) has been sent off by the referee the opposing team must reduce the number of players to equalise the participants in each team prior to the Kicks from the Penalty Mark commencing
• If, before both teams have taken five kicks, one has scored more goals than the other could score, even if it were to complete its five kicks, no more kicks are taken
• If, after both teams have taken five kicks, both have scored the same number of goals, kicks continue to be taken in the same order, until one team has scored one goal more than the other from the same number of kicks
• Any player who has been sent off may not take part in the kicks from the penalty mark
• Any eligible player may change places with his goalkeeper
• Only the eligible players and match officials are permitted to remain on the pitch when kicks from the penalty mark are taken
• All players, except the player taking the kick and the two goalkeepers, must remain in the opposite half to that where the kicks are being taken
• If a goalkeeper is injured during the kicks from the penalty mark procedure he may be replaced by a substitute