Indoor Soccer Italic Rules apply only to Co-Rec games 1. The players 1.1 A team will be played with no more than 5 players, including the goalkeeper. Each team must start with no less than 4 players. A team may have up to 11 on its roster. 1.2 Each team must play with no less than 3 players. 1.3 A team with 2 or 4 field players must play with equal number of male and female field players. 1.4 A team with 3 field players must play with at least 1 male and 2 female field player. 2. Substitution 2.1 Each team may free substitute similar to hockey substitutions. 2.2 There is no limit to the number of substitution during a game. 2.3 Substitute cannot take penalty kicks. Only a player on the court during the time of the foul may take the penalty kick. 2.4 A team must substitute for a bleeding player. 3. The players’ equipment 3.1 All players, except the goalkeeper, must wear the color assigned to the team. 3.2 The goalkeeper must wear color distinguished from all other field players and from the referee. A player may not wear any jewelry or any accessory. 3.3 Injured players are allowed to wear braces, soft casts and protective coverings if they are covered with 1/2 inch high density padding or wrapped with a similar material with the same minimum thickness. 3.4 The referee shall not allow a player to wear anything which he/she deems dangerous (i.e. hard casts and splints or anything the Supervisor deems as unyielding material). 4. The duration of the game 4.1 A regulation game consists of 15 minutes halves. 4.2 There is a 5-minute halftime and 2-minute intermission before any overtime period and penalty shootout. 4.3 If a regular season game is tied at the end of regulation the game will go straight to penalty kicks. 4.4 If a playoff game is tied at the end of regulation, a 5-minute overtime period follows. If still tied at the end of the overtime period, a penalty shootout takes place, as set forth in Rule 9. 4.5 Except in the case of an unusual delay, as determined by the referee, the game clock counts down continuously through each half or overtime period.

5. The start and restart of play 5.1 Start of play 5.1.1 A kickoff from the center mark starts play at the beginning of each period and after each goal. Opponents must be five yards from the player making the kickoff. 5.1.2 Immediately prior to the kickoff, all players remain in their respective defensive halves. 5.1.3 Once the referee signals the kickoff, a player of the team having the kickoff has 5 seconds to play the ball. The same player may not play the ball until it touches another player. 5.2 The referee designates the end of the field each team will defend. 5.3 The home team takes the opening kickoff for the first half and any overtime period, and the visiting team takes the opening kickoff for the second half. 5.4 Except at the end of a half, play restarts after each goal with a kickoff by the opposing team. 5.5 Restarts 5.5.1 A restart is the manner of resuming play after a goal or other stoppage. 5.5.2 Restarts take place by a kickoff, free kick, or dropped ball, as set forth elsewhere in these rules. 5.5.3 The team opposing which is responsible for the stoppage takes the restart. 5.5.4 Except for a dropped ball, the same player who takes a restart may not again make contact with the ball until touched by another player. 5.5.5 Other than for kickoffs or as provided below, restarts occur within 3 feet from the ball at the moment of stoppage. 5.6 Free kick 5.6.1 A team receives a free kick after stoppages other than when a dropped ball or penalty kick is required. 5.6.2 Before the team takes the free kick, the ball must be stationary. 5.6.3 All opposing players are at least 15 feet from the spot of the free kick (or, if within 15 feet of the opponent’s goal, along the wall) until after the restart. 5.6.4 The referee whistles the restart for all free kicks taken from any circle mark and after stoppages due to an injury or other incident within the referee’s discretion. 5.6.5 In the instance of ejection, the referee whistles the restart after the ejected person has left the area visible to the field of play. 5.6.6 The spot of the free kick is that provided in Rule 5.5.5, except as follows: 5.6.6.1 A free kick within a player’s defensive penalty arch may be taken from any spot therein. All opposing players remain outside the arch and at least 15 feet away until the ball is in play beyond the arch.

If, after the free kick, any player touches the ball before it has left the penalty arch, the free kick is retaken. 5.6.6.2 When a team is awarded a free kick within its opponent’s penalty arch, the free kick takes place at the opponent’s free kick mark (“top of the arch”). 5.6.6.3 A free kick occurring after an illegal pass back to the goalkeeper (Rule 7.7(b)) is taken at the goalkeeper’s free kick mark. 5.6.6.4 If the ball touches the bleachers all or any part of the wall to either side of the bleachers, out of the court, or the ball goes out of play after touching any bench personnel, who is inadvertently extending into the playing field, or if the ball exits the field through open door, the free kick (i.e., kick-in) is taken by the other team on the spot no more than two yards from the wall where the ball crossed over or touched an alien object. 6

Method of scoring 6.1 A team scores a goal when the whole of the ball legally passes over the goal line, between the goalposts, and under the crossbar. A goal may be scored directly from a kickoff or restart. 6.2 The team scoring the greater number of goals during a game is the winner. 6.3 No goal is allowed if an outside agent materially alters the path of the ball on its way over the goal line. In such instance, Rule 5.5 dictates the manner of restart, except for a penalty kick, in which case it is retaken.

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Fouls and other violations 7.1 A foul is assessed to a player who commits any of the following offenses in a manner that the referee considers careless, serious, reckless, or involving excessive force: (a) Kicking an opponent; (b) Tripping an opponent; (c) Jumping at an opponent; (d) Charging an opponent; (e) Striking or elbowing an opponent; and (f) Pushing an opponent. 7.2 A foul occurs if a player commits any of the following offenses: (a) Holding an opponent; (b) Handling the ball (except by the goalkeeper within his penalty arch); (c) Playing in a dangerous manner; (d) Slide tackling; (e) Impeding the progress of an opponent (“obstruction”); and (f) Preventing the goalkeeper from releasing the ball from his hands. 7.3 Should a player simultaneously commit multiple fouls, the referee penalizes the most serious one. 7.4 All fouls result in a free kick unless otherwise stated herein.

7.5 The referee stops play for unsporting behavior, resulting in a free kick, for the following offenses: (a) Attempting to enter play without the required referee consent; (b) Entering play without an ordered uniform adjustment; (c) Using the body of a teammate or any part of the field to gain an advantage; (d) Entering the protected area of an area of an opposing player taking a free kick (after initial warning); (e) Passing the ball back to a goalkeeper by trickery (Rule 7.7(b)); (f) Directing words or actions by any player or team personnel at an official in dissent; and 7.6 Other behavior which, in the referee’s discretion, does not warrant another category of penalty (e.g., taunting, foul language.) 7.7 For the following violations by a goalkeeper, the opposing team receives a free kick: (a) Bring the ball from outside of the penalty arch to his hand within it; (b) Handling the ball, having been passed deliberately and directly to him from a teammate; except that he may handle a ball which a teammate passes to him by the head, chest, or knee and without “trickery” (the use of a wall or foot to flick the ball to a head, chest, or knee before making the pass); (c) Controlling the ball with either his hand or foot inside of his penalty arch for over 5 seconds. (d) Half-court rule: Any delivery (kick, throw, or punch) of the ball by the goaltender from inside the penalty area must be touched by a player or touch the ground on the goalie's half of the field. An indirect free kick will be awarded to the opposing team at the point where the ball crossed the mid-field line. 7.8 The referee issues a team penalty for the following violations by a team or unidentified person: (a) Players leave a team bench to join a fracas, melee, or confrontation with the opposition or a game official; (b) After an initial “warning” issued to the team captain, one or more players from a team bench verbally abuse the referee. (c) Other unsporting behavior, which, in the referee’s discretion, does not warrant another category of penalty. 7.9 The referee allows play to continue, notwithstanding the commission of an offense, when the team against which it has been committed will benefit from an existing offensive advantage. In the case of a carded Offense, the card is given after the offending team gains control of the ball or the ball is dead. 7.10 Unless otherwise provided in Rules 7.11, the referee issues a yellow card for committing unsporting behavior of Rule 7.5, team Penalties of Rule 7.8, serious violations of Rule 7.1 and Rule 7.2 and for: (a) Handling the ball deliberately (or by a goalkeeper outside of his penalty arch);

(b) Endangering a goalkeeper within his penalty arch by charging into him, regardless whether he is in control of the ball; (c) Slide tackling; and (d) Propelling an opponent into the perimeter wall, whether or not intentionally; 7.11 A person receives a red card for violations of Rule 7.5, Rule 7.1 and Rule 7.2, which the referee considers violent or use of excessive force, and for: 7.11.1 Intentionally elbowing an opponent above the shoulder; 7.11.2 A tackle from the side or from behind directly into one or both legs of an opponent, seriously endangering him; 7.11.3 Striking or attempting to strike an opponent with intent to injure; 7.11.4 Leaving a team bench to engage in a fracas, melee, or confrontation with the opposition or a game official; 7.11.5 Committing extreme unsporting behavior, including: (a) Spitting at any person; (b) Persistent use of extremely abusive language or behavior toward a game official; (c) Bodily contact with a game official in dissent. 7.11.6 When Rule 7.10 applies, committing a second yellow card offense; 8. Penalty Kick 8.1 A penalty kick is awarded the attacking team when a player with the ball or a player in the process of receiving a pass from his teammates is suffered a foul stated in Rule 7.1 and Rule 7.2 within the other team penalty arch or a defending player handle the ball deliberately within his team penalty arch. 8.2 The ball is placed at the free kick mark nearer the attacking goal (top of the arch); 8.3 All players of the attacking team stand behind the halfway line and outside the center circle. Players of the defending team stand behind the halfway line and inside of the center circle. 8.4 The goalkeeper has at least one foot on his goal line and may not move off until the referee whistles the penalty kick to begin and the ball is in play (i.e. played forward using any legal manner by the penalty kick taker.) 8.5 Once the referee whistles the penalty kick to begin, the player taking the penalty kick has 5 seconds to strike the ball, restarting the play; 8.6 The player taking the penalty kick may not touch the ball again until another player has touched it. 8.7 For each team, male and female players must take the penalty kick alternately. 9. 9. Penalty Shootout 9.1 The visiting team has the choice of the team shoots first or the goal at which both teams shoot. The home team will decide the other.

9.2 All players, other than the player taking the penalty and the defending goalkeeper, remain within their team bench areas or the other half of the court. 9.3 Both teams may have 3 shootouts, with players from each team shooting alternately. 9.4 If, after both teams have taken 3 shootouts, neither has an advantage, the penalty shootout continues, alternating one player at a time, until both teams have taken an equal number of shots and one team has scored when the other has not; 9.5 All players must shoot before any player can shoot again. 9.6 Rule 8.2, Rule 8.4 and Rule 8.5 apply. 9.7 Rule 8.7 applies. It refreshes after every player in the team has shot. 10. Additional Coastal Carolina Intramural Rules: 10.1 All players must sign in with his/her Coastal ID Card 10.2 The Mercy Rule applies when: (a) A team leads by 10 goals at anytime in the second half. (b) A team leads by 5 goals under five minutes of the game. 10.3 If a player receives one red card during a game, he/she must set an appointment with the Intramural Director to regain his/her indoor soccer playing eligibility. 10.4 If a player receives 2 red cards, she will be disqualified for the remainder of the season and must set an appointment with the Intramural Director to regain all Intramural eligibility. 10.5 If a player has accumulated 3 yellow cards, they will also be suspended and must meet with the Intramural Director to regain their indoor soccer eligibility. The exception to the cumulative yellow cards rule shall be non-sportsmanship-related offenses such as wearing jewelry. Final decisions concerning sportsmanship issues shall be made on site by the game officials and Intramural Supervisor. 10.6 There are 3 walls in play at all times. The scoreboard wall and the 2 walls behind the goals. The ball is in play if it hits along the bottom of the bleachers, but not where the team benches or above that. 10.7 A player may not use his/her hand on the wall to gain advantage (aside from standing up); obstruction (indirect kick) will be called. This includes putting a hand or hands on the wall to shield the ball from a defender. 10.8 The goalie box and the penalty box are one in the same and will be marked with tape on the court. 10.9 When a team accumulates 3 yellow cards or 2 red cards in a match, the game will be forfeited and the team will lose their forfeit bond.