Course aim
To develop a knowledge & understanding of Law 11 - Offside
Outcomes
By the end of this course you should be able to:
- Indicate when a player is in an offside position or not.
- Demonstrate when to award offside against a player.
- Differentiate the following terms:
- ‘nearer to his opponents goal line’
- ‘interfering with play’
- ‘interfering with an opponent’ and
- ‘gaining an advantage by being in that position’.
Understand important concepts, such as;
- The difference between being in an offside position and being penalised for being in an offside position.
- When a player is not penalised for being in an offside position.
- Why, when a defending player leaves the field of play without the referee’s permission, they should be considered to be on his goal line/touch line for the purposes of offside, until the ball is next in play.