Para Football Rules
Match Duration
The match duration for five-a-side football is 50 minutes which is divided into two halves of 25-minutes. Each of the team can request a one-minute time-out in each half. Seven-a-side football is played for two thirty-minute halves with a 15-minutes half-time break.
Disability Class
In 5-a-side football, only athletes with visual impairments compete. The goalkeeper in the team must be either sighted or partially sighted (belonging to B2 or B3 category). The disability classes for them are:-
B1
Totally blind or have a very low visual acuity.
B2
Partially sighted, have a visual acuity of 2/60 or a visual field of not more than 5 degrees.
B3
Partially sighted, have a visual acuity of 2/60 to 6/60 or a visual field of 5-20 degrees.
In 7-a-side football, athletes with cerebral palsy or other neurological disorders compete.
The disability classes for them are:-
FT5
Hypertonia in both lower limbs and to some extent in upper limbs. Athletes have difficulty in running, turning and stopping.
FT6
Coordination and balance problems in all four limbs and trunk because of athetosis or ataxia. Difficulty in dribbling the ball especially when running.
FT7
Hemiplegic athletes (only one side of the body is affected which causes the players to walk and run with a limp).
FT8
Minimally impaired athletes.
- Other rules of the sport are same as that in soccer for able-bodied players except for the match duration and there are no off-side rules in both the formats and one-handed throw-ins are permitted.
