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 Soccer Playoff Rules
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Playoff games will consist of two
thirty-minute halves. If the game is tied, two five-minute overtime periods will
be played. These periods are not sudden victory and must both be played to
completion even if a goal is scored. If the game is still tied, there will be a
shootout except in the Championship Game where two five-minute sudden victory
periods will be played after the overtime periods before going to a shootout. If
the Championship Game is still tied after these periods, there will be a
shootout.
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In the shootout, the goalie is allowed
to move off the goal line after the referee’s signal. He does not have to wait
for the ball to be kicked as in a penalty kick situation.
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The shootout will follow this
procedure:
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The referee chooses the goal from which
all kicks from the penalty line will be taken.
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The coach may select any five players,
including the goalkeeper, on or off the field to take the kicks. The order in
which they will kick must be given to the referee.
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The winning team in the coin toss will
choose whether to shoot first or second.
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The teams will alternate kickers. There
is no follow-up to the kick.
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The defending team may change
goalkeeper prior to each kick.
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All five kickers shoot for each team.
The team scoring the greatest number of kicks is the winner. The first round of
five kicks is not sudden victory.
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If the score remains tied after each
team has had five kicks, each coach must select a different five players to
shoot in a sudden victory situation. In this round of kicks, the game will end
after any pair of kickers when one scores and the other does not.
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If the score still remains tied, the
coaches may select any five players (including those who have already kicked)
for another sudden victory round.
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If the score still remains tied, the
coaches must select five different players than those who kicked in the previous
round to continue in a sudden victory situation.
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