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Referee Cards
Yellow Cards and Red Cards
What are they?
Yellow and red cards are used as a means to discipline players and coaches for misconduct during the game. A yellow card is used to caution, while a red card results in the persons dismissal from the field of play. Thus, yellow cards are used to punish milder forms of misconduct than red cards. However, if a person receives two yellow cards in one game, they get an automatic red card.
When are they used?
A person receives a yellow card for committing any of the following offenses:
- Shows dissent by word or action
- Persistently infringes the Laws of the Game
- Delays the restart of play
- Fails to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a dropped ball, corner-kick, free-kick, or throw in
- Enters or re-enters the field of play without the referee's permission
- Persistent offenses (no specific number or pattern of offenses constitutes 'persistent')
- Is guilty of unsporting behavior
- Attempts to deceive the referee e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled
- Changes places with the goalkeeper during play or without the referee's permission
- Commits in a reckless manner a direct free kick offense
- Commits a foul or handles the ball to interfere with or stop a promising attack
- Commits any other offense which interferes with or stops a promising attack except where the referee awards a penalty kick for an offense which was an attempt to play the ball
- denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by an offense which was an attempt to play the ball and the referee awards a penalty kick
- handles the ball in an attempt to score a goal (whether or not the attempt is successful) or in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent a goal
- makes unauthorized marks on the field of play
- plays the ball when leaving the field of play after being given permission to leave
- shows a lack of respect for the game
- uses a deliberate trick to pass the ball (including from a free kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands
- verbally distracts an opponent during play or at a restart
A person receives a red card for committing any of the following offenses:
- Is guilty of serious foul play
- Is guilty of violent conduct
- Spits on or bitting an opponent or any other person
- Denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball
- Denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player's goal by an offense punishable by a free kick or penalty kick
- Uses offensive or insulting or abusive language and/or gestures
- Shows dissent towards a match official
- Receives a second yellow card in the same match
Consequences
During the match: A player/coach who receives a yellow card may continue to play/coach in the match. If a player/coach receives a red card, he is immediately dismissed from the field of play. The player who is dismissed cannot be replaced; his team must play the remainder of the game with one fewer player.
One red card can result in an automatic suspension of one to three games, to be determined by UNYS Executive board members.
In the event a red card is given for assaulting another person, proper police authorities will be notified.
2nd red card within the same year can result in dismissal from league for remainder of the year, up to the discretion of the UNYS Executive board members.