<p class="reg-lead">Beach Soccer Laws of the Game, 2025-26 season — the official FIFA text for a discipline whose rules stand apart from association football.</p>

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<tr><td>Season</td><td><b>2025-26</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Issuing authority</td><td>Fédération Internationale de Football Association (<b>FIFA</b>)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td>Governing edition of this family</td></tr>
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<h2>Why beach soccer has separate laws</h2>
<p>Unlike association football, whose Laws of the Game are made by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the beach soccer laws are determined by <strong>FIFA itself</strong>. The distinction is not merely administrative; the mechanism for amending the rules and the authority competent to interpret them differ in this discipline.</p>
<p>The rules of play also differ fundamentally: the game is played on sand and barefoot, over three twelve-minute periods, with five players per team and unlimited substitutions, and in the event of a draw extra time is played, followed by penalty kicks.</p>
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<h2>The significance of this document for Iran</h2>
<p>Beach soccer is one of the disciplines in which the Iranian national team holds a global standing and competes regularly in continental and world competitions. That continuous participation turns a precise knowledge of the rules from a theoretical matter into a practical one — particularly in relation to fouls and dismissals, where this discipline has its own system of sanctions.</p>
<p>The general rule in this family is that the text governing any given match is the seasonal edition under which the match was played, not the most recently published edition.</p>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>Referees, coaches, players and beach soccer competition officials. For the sports lawyer, disciplinary cases in this discipline must be argued by reference to the Laws of the Game of this discipline and of the relevant season, not to the Laws of the Game of association football.</p>
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Beach Soccer Laws of the Game 2025-2026

<p class="reg-lead">The Laws of the Game, 2020/21 season — the official text of the International Football Association Board for a season that adopted significant temporary changes under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>

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<tr><td>Season</td><td><b>2020/21</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Issuing body</td><td>International Football Association Board (<b>IFAB</b>)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td><b>17 Laws</b> together with guidelines and interpretations, in 232 pages</td></tr>
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<h2>What is this document?</h2>
<p>The Laws of the Game are the foundational text of football, and the body that issues them is the International Football Association Board, not FIFA. The seventeen Laws in this document determine everything from the field of play, the ball and the number of players to fouls, free kicks, penalties and the conditions for scoring a goal, and alongside them come the guidelines for referees and the section on interpretations.</p>
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<h2>A season whose rules changed temporarily</h2>
<p>The 2020/21 edition was published at a time when football faced a compressed match calendar following the stoppage caused by the pandemic. The most important decision of that period was to permit an <strong>increase in the number of substitutions</strong>; a discretion given to the organisers of each competition in order to reduce the burden on players.</p>
<p>This point has direct significance in cases relating to that same season: a challenge to the number of substitutions, or to the manner in which it was applied, must be assessed against the text of this edition and its temporary amendments, not against the ordinary rule.</p>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>Referees, clubs and coaches active in the 2020/21 season, and lawyers examining cases from that season. The general rule is that the text governing any match is the edition for the season in which the match was played.</p>
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Beach Soccer Laws of the Game 2025

Laws of the Game2020-21