Football Vocabulary

It is a small circle inside the

penalty area. You take penalties from it

• Penalty Point

• Penalty spot

• Centre spot

• Goal line

In each of the four in the pitch, there

is a small semi-circle with a flag. You take

corner kicks from this semi-circle.

• assistant

• referee

• flags

• corners

these lines go along the two sides of the

pitch.

• touch lines

• half lines

• penalty lines

• coach lines

It is where the ball is placed before kick-off.

• coners spot

• centre spot

• centre place

• toss up

It is the area in which the goalkeeper can use his hands.

• three yard box

• penalty box

• six yard box

• penalty area

If a player commits a minor foul, the referee may

award an indirect free-kick. The attacking team

can not score a goal directly

• direct free-kick

• indirect

  free-kick

• appeal

• penalty kick

If a player thinks that the referee has made a bad

decision, he can keep trying to persuade the

referee to change his decision.

• appeal

• insist

• commitment

• grunt

If a player is badly hurt, the medics will carry the

player off the pitch on a...

• truck

• wheelchair

• mat

• stretcher

If a player commits a red card offence, the referee

will punish the player by...

• starting off the pitch

• sending him off the pitch

• sending him out the pitch

• sending him home

Before the match, the referee uses it to

decide which team kicks off first. The team

captains stand in front of each other and the referee

flips the coin.

• coin-toss

• toss up a coin

• none of them are true

• A and B are correct