It is well-established that using your arms or hands is not allowed in football. Yet changes to the rules have made it difficult to comprehend for players, coaches, fans and even officials themselves.

Football's rulemakers, the International Football Association Board (Ifab), tightened up the handball rule in time for this season, defining the boundary between the shoulder and the arm as the ...

HANDBALL is one of the most well known terms in football. So what happens when the ball touches a hand or arm during a football match? Here’s what we know about the handball rule. What counts… ...

The lunchtime after the night before brought an unwittingly ill-timed alteration to the handball rule. On Thursday night, Fulham were left to lament the decision that saw Josh Maja’s equaliser ...

RadioTimes.com has rounded up everything you need to know about the handball rule in football and its use in 2024/25.

What’s the basic rule. A handball is an offence in football which ensues when an outfield player touches the ball with their hand or arm, or a goalkeeper outside of their penalty box.

Therefore the handball rules in football are more strict in attacking scenarios. It is usually a handball if: A goal is scored by the arm/hand of an attacking player; ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Tuesday criticised current handball rules, telling Roger Bennett's "Men in Blazers" podcast that "nobody in the world understands when there's handball or not ...

Football handball rules and FIFA guidelines. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) is the body charged with setting, overseeing, altering, and releasing the Laws of the Game which ...

It is well-established that using your arms or hands is not allowed in football. Yet changes to the rules have made it difficult to comprehend for players, coaches, fans and even officials themselves.