
“Walking football was launched in 2012 with the aim of providing older people with a version of the popular sport which allows them to enjoy playing competitive football regardless of age or disability. Walking football demands players show discipline and control. As such, running (or jogging) and most physical contact is a breach of the rules.”
WALKING FOOTBALL AT QUARTEIRENSE
Walking Football is an enjoyable, social gathering that aims to provide a fun way to get a little fitter for the over 50’s 60’s 70’s and even 80’s! While football is a competitive sport, we aim to keep the competitive aspect in check, to make it safer for all our members. Our Code of Conduct for playing at Quarteirense WF sets out the sanctions to ensure we stick to the rules.
DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS
– Verbal warnings (2) for running.
– A warning (yellow card).
– Exclusion of a player for the duration of the game (red card).
Referees will employ the use of yellow cards as warnings in all cases traditionally regarded as cautionable offences.
Warning offences
A player is shown a yellow card if he/she commits any of the following:
- Is guilty of unsporting behaviour.Shows dissent by word or action.
- Persistently infringes the Laws of the Game.
- Delays the restart of play.
- Fails to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a corner kick, kick-in, freekick, or goal clearance.
- Deliberately leaves the pitch without the referee’s permission.
- Enters or re-enters the pitch without the referee’s permission or infringes the substitution procedure.
- If a player is penalised on three occasions for infringing the walking rule.
Sending-off offences
A player is shown the red card and sent off for the rest of the game, with no substitutions, if he/she commits any of the following offences:
- Is guilty of serious foul play.
- Is guilty of violent conduct.
- Denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball.
- Denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick.
- Uses offensive, insulting, or abusive language.
This code of conduct was created in collaboration between it’s walking football members.