CPLOA
Officials Association
Substitutions
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Offsides Rules
February 2008
Agenda
• Review Rules and Mechanics for
Substitutions and Offsides
• Answer play situations associated to the
rules
• Open discussion
Substitutions
• Rules 4-22 thru 4-26
• Two types of Substitutions :
– Regular – during dead ball
– Special – during live ball – “on the fly”
• General principles
– All players must enter the field ready to play, must be properly
equipped
– Must enter and exit through the table area
– Must enter the field immediately, no delays
– No subs allowed during :
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Ball OB over end line
Violations – loose ball technical fouls
Equipment violations
Inadvertent whistles
Substitutions – continued
• Regular Subs (dead ball)
– Allowed during most dead ball situations
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Charged team timeout
After a goal
Time-serving penalty enforcement
Ball OB on side line
Blood on players
• Special subs – “on the fly”
– Basically can happen almost at any time (except officials timeout
for equipment violation)
– One-for-one
– Can’t hang out in the table area, sub must be imminent
(example – don’t allow before/during faceoff)
– Must wait for exiting player to leave the field
– Must yield to the players exiting the field
Substitution Mechanics
• Who is responsible for subs ?
• Both officials. Trail has better look in settled situations
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looking across the field or behind. Caution – don’t look
behind and miss contact in your area.
Settled situations – count players
During allowable dead-ball substitution time :
– Two hands over head if subs allowed – all officials
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• One hand if no subs allowed – communicate “No Horn” if needed
Request for horn (not necessary to be sounded)
Wait a few seconds, if no request, restart
If they want a horn - turn on beeper – 20 seconds to complete
Count players before restart
• Pre-game – decide who counts each team
• R counts home team, U counts away
– Except faceoff – off official can count both teams
Offsides
Rules 4-10 thru 4-13
• General
– Teams must have 3 players in attack area and 4 players in the defensive
half at all times
• Exception – team with 4 players in penalty area.
– No players are restricted to any area of the field
– A player may go OB rather than offside and not be penalized, if he
returns to the proper side without delay
– A player can only be offside once during a single play
– If offsides happens as result of :
• Legal contact – technical foul for offsides
• Illegal contact – assess foul for illegal contact and whistle play dead for
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offsides
Usually seen at mid-field
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Offsides is a technical foul
• Loose ball – play-on
• Ball in possession
– Either flag-down slow whistle if by B
– If on A, stop play immediately and award ball to B
Offsides Mechanics
• Trail officials responsibility
• Woods theory – offsides can be heard or “smelled”
before visualized
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Goalie or long pole takes off on a clear
“Middie back” !!!
Listen to the bench area
Listen to other players
• US Lacrosse recommendation – count players going
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across mid-field
How many allowed ?
3 for each team
Difficulties – players can cross while goalie has
possession, defensive team can ride, new trail official
can be focused on the clearing play
Recommendation – count 7 players (4 and 3) as you’re
trailing the play moving up the defensive area.
Plays
• After assessing a time-serving penalty, horn sounds and beepers are
started. After 20 seconds beepers go off and
– a) Team A has 11 players on the field
– b) Team B has 8 players on the field
• Ruling a) technical foul, delay of game, team B awarded the ball and
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A must remove one player before restart, b) tough call – tell team B
they can have one more player. Comment – don’t let teams
play with less players than they are allowed before
restarting, especially man-down. Emphasis – count players
before restart !!!
A1 shoots, goalie makes save, A2 and goalie chase to the endline
behind the crease. A2 is closest and is awarded possession. Team
A or B coach requests a horn to sub.
Ruling – Substitution not allowed. Goalie is given 5 seconds on a
legitimate chase to re-enter the crease. Mechanics ?
Team A, on a clear and subbing on the fly, Long pole A4 passes to
A11, a delayed incoming sub, as he exits the table area and creates
a fast break. Ruling ?
Unsportsmanlike conduct by A, stop play. Rule 5-9-1-f. Assess 1 to
3 minutes by rule – releasable – recommendation - 1 minute, scale
up if repeated.
Plays
• A in possession. B1 goes offside, trail official throws flag and plays
slow whistle. B1 returns onside, then decides to go offside again
and play “man-up” during the slow whistle. A5 shoots and a) scores
or b) ball goes OB with B8 being closest to the ball. Ruling ?
• a) goal counts and B1’s technical foul is wiped by the goal. b) B1
has committed ONE technical foul. B1 serves 30 seconds and A is
awarded ball outside the goal area.
• A loose ball is rolling toward the mid-line. Team A and B players are
maneuvering for position.
– a) B10 steps over the mid-line then gets pushed offside.
– b) A5 contacts B2 from the side and the contact causes B2 to go
offside.
– c) A1 and B2 step offside simultaneously.
• Ruling – a) B10 is offside, play-on until the push occurs, kill play and
award ball to A, b) legal contact assuming ball is within 5 yards
when the contact occurs, play-on and if A does not quickly gain
possession, award ball to A. c) Award ball according to alternate
possession rules. Comment - should be a very rare occasion.
Plays
• Team A is clearing the ball in B’s defensive area. A1, A2, and A3 are
the only A players in their offensive end. Which of the following is
offsides ?
– a) A1 steps on the midline
– b) A1 is about to step over the midline but runs OB then immediately
returns to his goal area
– c) A1 leaves the field through the table area and after 2 seconds is
replaced by A4
• Ruling – None of them are offsides, all are legal.
• A is attacking. A5 shoots and scores. After the goal the trail
realizes that a) A2 is offsides or b) B has 8 players in their defensive
area or c) both A and B are offsides.
• Ruling – a) goal not allowed, ball awarded to B. b) technical foul on
B for either too many players on the field or offsides. Goal counts,
foul is wiped out by the goal. c) simultaneous fouls, goal not
allowed. A is awarded possession outside the goal area. (rule 7-64) Mechanics on all situations ?