Beach handball - IHF

4:12 If a player is bleeding or has blood on the body or uniform, the player must leave the
court immediately and voluntarily (through a normal substitution) in order to have the
bleeding stopped, the wound covered, and the body and the uniform cleaned off.
The player must not return to the court until this has been done.
A player who does not follow the instructions of the referees in connection with this
provision is deemed guilty of unsportmanslike conduct ( 8;4, 16;1d and 16;2c).
Player Substitutions
4:13 Substitutes may enter the game, at any time and repeatedly, without notifying the
timekeeper/scorekeeper, as long as the players they are replacing have already left
the court (16:2a).
The players shall always leave and enter the court over their own team‘s substitution
line (16:2a). These requirements also apply to the substitution of goalkeepers (5:12).
The substitution rules apply also during a time-out (except team time-out).
In case of a faulty substitution the game is restarted with a free-throw (Rule 13) or a
6-meter-throw (Rule 14) for the opponents, if the game has to be interrupted.
Otherwise the game is restarted with the throw that corresponds to the situation.
The guilty player shall be penalized with a suspension (Rule 16). If more than one
player from the same team is guilty of faulty substitution in the same situation, only
the first player committing an infraction is to be penalized.
4:14 If an additional player enters the court without a substitution, or if a player illegally
interferes with the game from the substitution area, there shall be a suspension for
the player. Thus the team must be reduced by one player on the court.
If a player enters the court while serving a suspension, he shall be given an
additional suspension that starts immediately and also causes a disqualification of
the player. The team is correspondingly further reduced on the court.
The game is in both cases restarted with a free-throw for the opponents (13:1a-b;
see, however, Clarification 8).
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