ARENA · SPORT GUIDE
FOOTBALL
Everything Football organizers and refs need to know — events, positions, the match clock, and the rule knobs you can tune.
SCORE
Goals
MATCH CLOCK
halves
POSITIONS
4
EVENT TYPES
15
HOW SCORING WORKS
The referee taps a button per event. Events with a positive score delta bump the team's score; the rest are stat-tracking only.
⚽Goal+1
🎯Penalty Scored+1
DISCIPLINE
🟨Yellow Card
🟨🟨Second Yellow
🟥Red Card
⚠️Foul
AUTO-SUSPENSION RULES (defaults — admin can edit per tournament)
- 3× yellow → 1-match ban (tournament)
- 1× red → 1-match ban (tournament)
- 1× second yellow → 1-match ban (tournament)
OTHER EVENTS
Stat-tracking events the ref logs alongside scoring. They don't change the score but feed leaderboards, player profiles, and the match log.
🅰️Assist
🚩Corner
🦵Free Kick
📍Penalty Awarded
❌Penalty Missed
🚫Offside
⬆️Sub In
⬇️Sub Out
⭐Man of the Match
PLAYER POSITIONS
Captured on the roster form. Players are grouped by position in the referee picker so logging events stays fast.
GKGoalkeeperDEFDefenderMIDMidfielderFWDForward
MATCH CLOCK
How the timer is structured for this sport. Every duration below is tunable in the Setup → Rules panel.
- PERIODS2 halves
- HALF LENGTH45 min
- HALFTIME BREAK15 min
- EXTRA TIME2 × 15 min
- STOPPAGEcaptured
RULE KNOBS YOU CAN TUNE
Defaults are sensible — beginners click through. Power users open the Rules panel in Setup and tune anything that matters for their league.
- Side size (players on field)default: 11
- Substitutions per matchdefault: 5
- Use match clockdefault: true
- Play in halvesdefault: true
- Half length (minutes)default: 45
- Halftime break (minutes)default: 15
- Capture stoppage timedefault: true
- Stoppage display styledefault: plus-n
- Extra time on drawsdefault: true
- ET periodsdefault: 2
- ET period length (minutes)default: 15
- Golden goal in ETdefault: false
- Penalty shootout if drawndefault: true
- Shootout rounds (pre-sudden-death)default: 5
- Away goals tiebreakerdefault: false
- Enforce offsidedefault: true