QUESTIONS
1. In what year was the Irish Football Association formed?
2. In what year was the Welsh Football Association formed?
3. What is the London address of the Football Association?
4. What is the shape and what are the dimensions of an Association football pitch?
5. A goal consists of two uprights and a crossbar, backed by a net What are its
dimensions?
6. What is the circumference of a football?
7. What is the weight of a football?
8. How many officials control a game of professional Association football?
9. What are their roles?
10. How long does a match normally last?
11. How many players are there in each team on the field at any one time?
12. By what name is the start of a match known?
13. How many substitutes are allowed in normal league and international matches?
14. What is it called when the whole of the ball passes between the goal posts,
under the cross- bar, traversing the whole of the goal line?
15. How is play re-started after the ball has gone out of play over the white lines
marking the width of the playing area?
ANSWERS
1. 1880. 2. 1876. 3. Lancaster Gate. 4. Rectangular. 100 yards (91m) to 130 yards
(119m) in length x 50 yards (45.5m) to 100 yards (91m) in width. 5. 8 yards
(7.32m) wide and 8 feet (2.44m) high. 6. 27 to 28 ins. ((68 to 71 cm). 7. 14 to 16 oz.
(396 to 453 grams). 8. Four. 9. One referee; two assistant referees (or linesmen) and
a fourth official, who controls substitutions etc. 10. 90 minutes. (Two periods of 45
minutes each). 11. Eleven, maximum. 12.‘Kick-off’. 13.Three from five previously
named substitutes. 14.A goal. 15. By a ‘throw-in’.
