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The Start of Soccer

By Dannydubs7

  • The Cambridge Rules are Rewritten

    The Cambridge Rules are rewritten to provide the game's first uniform regulations. Although students at Cambridge had made an earlier attempt to create a uniform standard in the late 1840s it was not until 1863 that football, a sport played throughout the centuries in village contests and then embraced in the early 1800s by the English public schools, had a fixed rulebook. From there, 14 laws were soon for a game that would, in the following century, become the most played, watched and talked a

  • The Offside Law is Changed

    The offside law is changed to allow players to be onside provided there are three players between the ball and the goal. The offside rule was part of the original rules in 1863, but it was a far different from the law as we know it today. Any attacking player ahead of the ball was said to be offside. This meaning early tactical systems featured as many as eight forwards, as the only means of advancing the ball was by dribbling or scrimmaging as in rugby.

  • The associations in Great Britain unify their rules and form the International Football Association Board (IFAB) to control the laws of the game.

  • The first official meeting of the IFAB takes place.

  • Introduction of the Penalty-Kick

    This was a major change as it changed how the game was played. The fouls were getting called more, This ended up creating a law on “Diving”, faking a foul to get a penalty

  • FIFA becomes a member of the IFAB

  • Amendment of the offside rule from three to two players.

  • The present Laws of the Game are framed in a new system of codification, based on the Laws previously in force.

  • Substitutes are permitted for the first time, albeit only for an injured goalkeeper and one other injured player.

  • The system of red and yellow cards is introduced for the 1970 FIFA World Cup ™ finals.

    This introduced the punishment to the game a since then the game was played more cautiously. Because a yellow card was a warning and the Red card was an ejection.

  • The offside law is changed in favour of the attacker, who is now onside if level with the penultimate defender.

    This was a major change in the world of soccer because it changed the way tactics were played and forever made. The offense could from then on rely on his midfielders to give a cross into scoring area.

  • Goalkeepers are forbidden from handing back-passes.

  • The technical area is introduced into the Laws of the Game, with the Fourth Official following the next year.

    This was the final referee that recorded the games fouls correctly

  • Linesmen are renamed Assistant Referees.

  • The Laws are revised.

    These are the same laws that we have today and they haven’t changed since.