All you need to know about penalty shootouts
At the end of a soccer game where the scores are tied, you may see the players take part in a penalty shootout. If you’re new to the game of soccer or haven’t experienced many of these, you may be unsure about what happens. Having taken part in many penalty shootouts over the years, I want to share all the essential facts you need to know.
A penalty shootout is a series of penalty kicks taken by two soccer teams to determine the winner of a game. The teams take alternate kicks until one team has scored more goals than their opponents. The team with the most goals at the end of the penalty shootout is the winner of the game.
As with any activity, the sport of soccer requires the players to follow specific rules and procedures when taking part in a penalty shootout. By the end of this article, you will fully understand everything you need to know about a penalty shootout and even be able to explain the rules to all your friends!
What Is a Penalty Shootout?
What most soccer fans refer to as a penalty shootout is officially known as “kicks from the penalty mark”.
“Kicks from the penalty mark” is a far more descriptive name for part of a soccer game that is often a nail-biting and exciting affair.
One kick can be the difference between a team winning or losing a game.
A penalty shootout happens at the end of a game when the scores are tied. Both teams take it in turns to take a series of penalty kicks. The team that has scored the most goals at the end of the penalty shootout is the winner of the game.
A penalty shootout is used as the last resort for determining the outcome of a game when the scores are tied.
For many soccer games, it doesn’t matter if the game ends in a tie. When this happens, the league will award both teams one point each, and the players will switch their focus to their next game.
But in specific soccer tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup, the Copa America, or the MLS Playoffs, it’s not enough for a game to finish as a tie.
The winner has to be determined
This is why soccer began using penalty shootouts as a tie-breaker.
Former Israel Football Association (IFA) general secretary, Joseph Dagan, is credited with inventing the penalty shootout. In 1969 he proposed that FIFA introduce penalty shootouts, and the lawmakers of soccer officially approved them in 1970.
Since then, penalty shootouts have been used at almost every major tournament and have become a vital part of soccer.
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How Does a Penalty Shootout Work?
Once the referee has signaled a penalty shootout will take place, there are several rules and procedures that the two teams must follow throughout the shootout.
A penalty shootout works by each team selecting five players to take a series of penalty kicks at a goal. The defending goalkeeper is the only player permitted to be between the ball and the goal. After each player has taken a penalty kick, the team with the most goals is the winner of the game.
The procedure for a penalty shootout:
- Each coach chooses five players to take a penalty kick
- The referee tosses a coin to decide where the players will take the kicks and who goes first
- The teams take alternate kicks
- The referee keeps track of the goals scored and declares the winner
Choosing What Players Take the Penalty Kicks
The first decision a team needs to make before a penalty shootout in – which players are going to take the kicks.
In many of the big tournaments, the players will have been preparing for this scenario for months, if not years. The coach will have already drawn up a list of players to take each kick.
However, on the day, the coach may find they are without some of the players they had intended to be involved.
because of:
- suspension
- or substitutions made during the game
- injury
- a sending off during the game
The only players eligible to take a kick during a penalty shootout are the players currently on the field of play at the end of the game. A team cannot use a player that has been substituted or sent off during the game.
When the coach draws up the list of players to take the kicks, they can only choose from the players currently involved in the game. This can include the goalkeeper.
The teams don’t have to inform the referee of the order the players will take their kick. But if one team ends the game with fewer players than the other, the larger team has to match the number of players on the smaller team and exclude one or more players from the penalty shootout.
The team must inform the referee of the name and number of the player excluded.
Deciding Where the Penalty Shootout Happens and Who Starts
The next step is for the referee to decide on the end of the field that the penalty kicks will take place and then decide which team takes their kick first.
Unless one end of the field is unusable or unsafe for any reason, the referee will toss a coin and designate one goal as the location of the penalty shootout.
Some teams feel there is an advantage to being at one end rather than the other, particularly if their fans are located behind one of the goals, but often it makes little difference.
After choosing the location, the referee will toss the coin again. Whichever team guesses correctly will decide if they would prefer to take the first kick in the penalty shootout or the second.
This choice can be important as many people believe that taking the first kick in a penalty shootout gives a team a significant advantage.
At this point, it’s time to get the penalty shootout underway.
Player’s Positions During a Penalty Shootout
During the penalty shootout, the position of all the players is important.
Except for the player taking the kick and the two goalies, all players must remain in the center circle of the soccer pitch. When it’s a player’s turn to take a kick, they can walk up to the penalty mark, but after their kick, they must head straight back to the middle of the field.
The goalkeepers remain in a different part of the field to the rest of their team.
When a goalie is defending a penalty, they must remain on the goal line, between the goalposts, until the kick is taken. This is the same for a goalie at any penalty kick throughout a game.
But when a goalkeeper steps aside for their opposite number to defend a kick, they don’t head back to the center circle to join the rest of their team.
The goalkeeper of the kicker must stay on the goal line, but just outside the penalty area. They must remain on the field of play at the point where the line of the penalty area meets the goal line.
Remaining in this position ensures the goalie is far enough away that they do not cause a distraction to the defending goalkeeper, but they are near enough to the goal not to cause a delay between kicks.
The Kick
During a penalty shootout, the kicks are taken alternately by each team. A different player must take every kick.
The only time a player can take a second penalty kick is if every other player on a team has taken a kick and the scores are still tied. At this point, each team rotates through all their players again.
Seeing a player taking a second penalty kick at a penalty shootout doesn’t often happen. Most penalty shootouts are decided after the first five kicks by each team. Still, occasionally you will see a longer penalty shootout. Though not as long as the 48 kicks taken in 2005.
craziest penalty shootout ever
The longest penalty shootout ever was between KK Palace and the Civics and finished with KK Palace winning 17–16 after 48 penalty kicks. This penalty shootout took place at the end of the final of the 2005 Namibian Cup after the game finished with a 2-2 draw.
When taking the penalties, each team much follows the same rules in place for any penalty kick during a soccer game, as I lay out in my article – A Penalty Kick in Soccer: All your questions answered.
The main variation on these rules is that once the kicker has kicked the ball, they may not play the ball a second time even if the goalie saves the shot and the ball rebounds to them.
Once the ball is off the field, in the goal, or has stopped moving, the kick is complete.
The Winner?
At a penalty shootout, the champ is the group that has scored the most after each group has taken five endeavors at the objective. If the scores are tied now, the groups keep taking substitute kicks until one group is ahead on a count of objectives scored.
At the point when the shootout begins, each group has five endeavors to score an objective from the punishment mark.
It is a “best of five” plan. Whoever can score the most objectives from five endeavors wins.
This arrangement implies that you will regularly see the ref announce a triumphant group before a group has taken every one of the five extra shots.
For instance, if group A has scored three scores from their initial three endeavors at objective and group B haven’t scored any, at that point it is highly unlikely that group B would now be able to score a larger number of objectives than group A from their two leftover extra shots.
If toward the finish of a Penalty shootout the scores are as yet tied, at that point the two groups keep taking substitute extra shots until one group has scored a greater number of scores than the other.
At this stage, only one miss or save can win or lose a game.
Wounds, Offenses, and Substitutions During a Penalty Shootout
Wounds and Substitutions
During a penalty shootout, there is as yet the chance of a player getting harmed or a group needing to make a replacement. In any case, various principles apply at a penalty shootout then they accomplish for the remainder of the game.
This is especially significant concerning the goalie as they are a central member at each extra shot.
Assume a goalkeeper gets harmed or can’t keep during a penalty shootout. Around there, they might be supplanted by another player in their group, or a named substitute, if the group has not yet utilized their full quantity of replacements during the game.
When the goalie has left the field, they can’t take any further part in the game.
These guidelines just apply to the goalkeeper. If some other player in a group is harmed during the punishment shootout, the group should proceed without them as the group can’t supplant any player aside from the goalkeeper.
Offenses, Cautions, and Sending’s Off
There are numerous offenses that a player may submit at a punishment that could prompt a yellow card or even a red card for a genuine offense.
However, what occurs if a player submits one of these offenses at a Penalty shootout?
The principal thing to comprehend is that any admonition or alert a player has gotten during the game isn’t continued into the punishment shootout. This piece of the game is a new beginning for every one of the players.
However, a player can in any case be advised or shipped off on the off chance that they submit an offense the arbitrator considers deserving of that particular result.
If the ref sends an outfield player off, the outcomes are equivalent to if this occurred during the remainder of the game, and the mentor can’t supplant them. Be that as it may, if the office sends the goalie off, they should be supplanted by a qualified player from the group. Generally, this implies an outfield player will supplant them and take the situation of the goalkeeper.
An offense during a penalty shootout what befalls that extra shot.
On the off chance that the goalie submits an offense during Penalty, the arbitrator will caution them first and afterward alert them briefly offense. The kicker will retake the punishment after the arbitrator has cautioned or advised the goalie.
If the kicker submits an offense during the extra shot, the arbitrator will alert the player, and the official will record the kick as missed.
On the off chance that both the kicker and the goalie submit an offense all the while, just the kicker is advised, and the official will record the kick as missed.
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Villarreal beat the Read devils (Manchester united)11-10 in a penalty shootout #EuropaLeagueFinal
Villarreal won the UEFA Europa League on penalties after a 1-1 draw more than 120 minutes in Gdansk, Poland, on Wednesday followed by a mind-boggling 11-10 penalty shootout achievement.
Gerard Moreno gave Villarreal the lead on the half-hour after he was teed up by Dani Parejo before Edinson Cavani evened out 10 minutes into the second half from a Scott McTominay help.
Moreno opened the scoring for the La Liga group one moment before the half-hour mark as the team of Victor Lindelof and Eric Bailly were found napping by the assailant.
In any case, it was an odd game where the penalties shoot-out was more energizing than the 120 minutes that prompted it as Unai Emery’s men boxed shrewd against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side.
A 55th-minute equalizer from the previous PSG forward guaranteed the game stretch into penalties at the Polsat Plus Arena in Gdansk.
The dramatization came after the 120 minutes worked out with no further scores and sent it to spot-kicks between the different sides to add to the pressure that had effectively amassed.
After an ideal trade of 10 goals each, United goalkeeper David De Gea was the unfortunate man to miss and hand Villarreal triumph. Mentor Unai Emery’s men began a more splendid note as they posed such countless inquiries from their rival – one which delivered their solitary objective in the open game. Nonetheless, the Premier League outfit needed to awaken from their periods of sleep after yielding the 29th-minute goal yet the entirety of their endeavors to track down the rear of the net were delivered pointless by the restrained Villarreal safeguards. In the interim, Geronimo Rulli was the saint for Villarreal after saving his kindred goalkeeper’s spot-kick to stop the long-distance race between the different sides.
Unai Emery has now won the UEL crown multiple times and this time with a subsequent Spanish club and the outcome qualifies the Yellow Submarine for next season’s UEFA Champions League.
The Spaniards will be in pot one with a large group of European monsters in pot two with Chelsea’s destiny to be chosen this end of the week in the Champions League last in Porto.
The Red Devils have delighted in a huge mission this prepare and almost have the Premier League title a shot before they exited the title race. Joined fixed a runner-up with 74 focuses from 38 focuses, 12 behind City who arose champion toward the finish of the rivalry.
Solskjaer’s accomplishments at United run further than basic measurements, yet the realities are this was his 151st match in control and just Dave Sexton has gone longer without a prize at Old Trafford in the post-war time.
United have missed the mark. Four losing semi-finals and now this, the most excruciating disappointment of the part.
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They came into the game as top picks against a club that completed seventh in La Liga this season – two spots beneath the Real Sociedad group United about 4-0 on the total in the last 32.
Sociedad was open, however. Emery ensured Villarreal remained smaller and battled for each ball, keeping United from space and the opportunity to break. They started to lead the pack through Gerard Moreno before Edinson Cavani adjusted for United in a round of not many clear possibilities.
Before the night’s over, two clubs who had confronted each other multiple times in history without scoring had hit the net multiple times.
