FUTSAL

Guidelines for Referees992. Positioning – goal clearance1. One of the referees must check first if the ball is inside the penalty area:• If the ball is not placed correctly, the referee may start the four-secondcount if he considers that the goalkeeper was ready to take the goalclearance or is delaying picking the ball up in his hands for tacticalreasons2. Once the ball is inside the penalty area, one of the referees must take aposition in line with the edge of the penalty area to check that the ballleaves the penalty area (ball in play) and that the members of the opposingteam are outside. He then performs the four-second count, irrespective ofwhether he has started it in accordance with the previous point.3. Finally, the referee who supervised the goal clearance must take a suitableposition for controlling the match, which is a priority in any case.