OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES - FIVB

1 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -2020 Approved by the 35th FIVB Congress 2016 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -2020 Published by FIVB in 2016 and layout: Samuel ChesauxIllustrations: FIVB 2014 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -20201 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -2020 Approved by the 35th FIVB Congress 2016To be implemented in all competitions beginning after 1st January 2017 CONTENTSGAME CHARACTERISTICS 7 PART 1: PHILOSOPHY OF RULES AND REFEREEING 8 PART 2 - SECTION 1: GAME 11 CHAPTER 1: FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT 121 PLAYING AREA.. DIMENSIONS .. PLAYING SURFACE .. LINES ON THE COURT .. ZONES AND AREAS .. TEMPERATURE .. LIGHTING ..142 NET AND POSTS .. HEIGHT OF THE NET .. STRUCTURE .. SIDE BANDS .. ANTENNAE .. POSTS .. ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT ..163 BALLS .. STANDARDS .. UNIFORMITY OF BALLS .. FIVE-BALL SYSTEM.

2 16 CHAPTER 2: PARTICIPANTS 174 TEAMS .. TEAM COMPOSITION .. LOCATION OF THE TEAM .. EQUIPMENT .. CHANGE OF EQUIPMENT .. FORBIDDEN OBJECTS ..195 TEAM LEADERS .. CAPTAIN .. COACH .. ASSISTANT COACH ..212 CHAPTER 3: PLAYING FORMAT 226 TO SCORE A POINT, TO WIN A SET AND THE MATCH .. TO SCORE A POINT .. TO WIN A SET .. TO WIN THE MATCH .. DEFAULT AND INCOMPLETE TEAM ..237 STRUCTURE OF PLAY .. THE TOSS .. OFFICIAL WARM-UP SESSION .. TEAM STARTING LINE-UP .. POSITIONS .. POSITIONAL FAULT .. ROTATION .. ROTATIONAL FAULT ..26 CHAPTER 4: PLAYING ACTIONS 278 STATES OF PLAY .. BALL IN PLAY .. BALL OUT OF PLAY .. BALL IN .. BALL OUT ..279 PLAYING THE BALL .. TEAM HITS .. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HIT .. FAULTS IN PLAYING THE BALL ..2910 BALL AT THE NET .. BALL CROSSING THE NET .. BALL TOUCHING THE NET.

3 BALL IN THE NET ..3011 PLAYER AT THE NET .. REACHING BEYOND THE NET .. PENETRATION UNDER THE NET .. CONTACT WITH THE NET .. PLAYER S FAULTS AT THE NET ..3112 SERVICE .. FIRST SERVICE IN A SET .. SERVICE ORDER .. AUTHORIZATION OF THE SERVICE .. EXECUTION OF THE SERVICE ..323 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES SCREENING .. FAULTS MADE DURING THE SERVICE .. SERVING FAULTS AND POSITIONAL FAULTS ..3313 ATTACK HIT .. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ATTACK HIT .. RESTRICTIONS OF THE ATTACK HIT .. FAULTS OF THE ATTACK HIT ..3414 BLOCK .. BLOCKING .. BLOCK CONTACT .. BLOCKING WITHIN THE OPPONENT S BLOCK AND TEAM HITS .. BLOCKING THE SERVICE .. BLOCKING FAULTS ..35 CHAPTER 5: INTERRUPTIONS, DELAYS AND INTERVALS 3615 INTERRUPTIONS .. NUMBER OF REGULAR GAME INTERRUPTIONS .. SEQUENCE OF REGULAR GAME INTERRUPTIONS .. REQUEST FOR REGULAR GAME INTERRUPTIONS.

4 TIME-OUTS AND TECHNICAL TIME-OUTS .. SUBSTITUTION .. LIMITATION OF EXCEPTIONAL SUBSTITUTION .. SUBSTITUTION FOR EXPULSION OR DISQUALIFICATION .. ILLEGAL SUBSTITUTION .. SUBSTITUTION PROCEDURE .. IMPROPER REQUESTS ..3916 GAME DELAYS .. TYPES OF DELAYS .. DELAY SANCTIONS ..4017 EXCEPTIONAL GAME INTERRUPTIONS .. INJURY / ILLNESS .. EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE .. PROLONGED INTERRUPTIONS ..4018 INTERVALS AND CHANGE OF COURTS .. INTERVALS .. CHANGE OF COURTS ..414 CHAPTER 6: THE LIBERO PLAYER 4219 THE LIBERO PLAYER .. DESIGNATION OF THE LIBERO .. EQUIPMENT .. ACTIONS INVOLVING THE LIBERO .. RE-DESIGNATION OF A NEW LIBERO .. SUMMARY ..45 CHAPTER 7: PARTICIPANTS CONDUCT 4620 REQUIREMENTS OF CONDUCT .. SPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT .. FAIR PLAY ..4621 MISCONDUCT AND ITS SANCTIONS .. MINOR MISCONDUCT .. MISCONDUCT LEADING TO SANCTIONS.

5 SANCTION SCALE .. APPLICATION OF MISCONDUCT SANCTIONS .. MISCONDUCT BEFORE AND BETWEEN SETS .. SUMMARY OF MISCONDUCT AND CARDS USED ..48 PART 2 - SECTION 2: THE REFEREES, THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AND OFFICIAL HAND SIGNALS 49 CHAPTER 8: REFEREES 5022 REFEREEING CORPS AND PROCEDURES .. COMPOSITION .. PROCEDURES ..5023 1st REFEREE .. LOCATION .. AUTHORITY .. RESPONSIBILITIES ..5224 2nd REFEREE .. LOCATION .. AUTHORITY .. RESPONSIBILITIES ..5425 SCORER .. LOCATION .. RESPONSIBILITIES ..555 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -202026 ASSISTANT SCORER .. LOCATION .. RESPONSIBILITIES ..5627 LINE JUDGES .. LOCATION .. RESPONSIBILITIES ..5728 OFFICIAL SIGNALS .. REFEREES HAND SIGNALS .. LINE JUDGES FLAG SIGNALS.

6 58 PART 2 - SECTION 3: DIAGRAMS 59D1a COMPETITION / CONTROL AREA ..60D1b THE PLAYING AREA ..61D2 THE PLAYING COURT ..62D3 DESIGN OF THE NET ..63D4 POSITION OF PLAYERS ..64D5a BALL CROSSING THE VERTICAL PLANE OF THE NET TO THE OPPONENT COURT ..65D5b BALL CROSSING THE VERTICAL PLANE TO THE OPPONENT FREE ZONE ..66D6 COLLECTIVE SCREEN ..67D7 COMPLETED BLOCK ..67D8 BACK ROW PLAYER S ATTACK ..68D9 WARNINGS AND SANCTIONS SCALES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES ..69D9a MISCONDUCT WARNINGS AND SANCTIONS ..69D9b DELAY WARNINGS AND SANCTIONS ..69D10 LOCATION OF THE REFEREEING CORPS AND THEIR ASSISTANTS ..70D11 REFEREES OFFICIAL HAND SIGNALS ..71-77D12 LINE JUDGES OFFICIAL FLAG SIGNALS ..78-79 PART 3: DEFINITIONS 80 INDEX 8367 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -2020 GAME CHARACTERISTICSV olleyball is a sport played by two teams on a playing court divided by a net.

7 There are different versions available for specific circumstances in order to offer the versatility of the game to object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent. The team has three hits for returning the ball (in addition to the block contact).The ball is put in play with a service: hit by the server over the net to the opponents. The rally continues until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes out or a team fails to return it VOLLEYBALL , the team winning a rally scores a point (Rally Point System). When the receiving team wins a rally, it gains a point and the right to serve, and its players rotate one position 1 PHILOSOPHY OF RULES AND REFEREEING8 PART 1: PHILOSOPHY OF RULES AND REFEREEINGINTRODUCTIONV olleyball is one of the most successful and popular competitive and recreational sports in the world.

8 It is fast, it is exciting and the action is explosive. Yet VOLLEYBALL comprises several crucial overlapping elements whose complimentary interactions render it unique amongst rally games. In recent years the FIVB has made great strides in adapting the game to a modern audience. This text is aimed at a broad VOLLEYBALL public players, coaches, referees, spectators, commentators for the following reasons: understanding the RULES better, allows better play coaches can create better team structure and tactics, allowing players full rein to display their skills; understanding the relationship between RULES allows officials to make better introduction at first focuses on VOLLEYBALL as a competitive sport, before setting out to identify the main qualities required for successful refereeing. VOLLEYBALL IS A COMPETITIVE SPORTC ompetition taps latent strengths.

9 It exhibits the best of ability, spirit, creativity and aesthetics. The RULES are structured to allow all of these qualities. With a few exceptions, VOLLEYBALL allows all players to operate both at the net (in attack) and in the back of the court (to defend or serve).William Morgan, the game s creator, would still recognize it because VOLLEYBALL has retained certain distinctive and essential elements over the years. Some of these it shares with other net/ball/racquet games: Service Rotation (taking turns to serve) Attack DefenseVolleyball is, however, unique amongst net games in insisting that the ball is in constant flight a flying ball and by allowing each team a degree of internal passing before the ball must be returned to the opponents. The introduction of a specialist defensive player the Libero has moved the game forward in 9 OFFICIAL VOLLEYBALL RULES 2017 -2020 VOLLEY PASSINGS erviceRotationExplosive ActionDefenseJumping PowerAttackTEAM GAMEDIVIDED COURTS terms of rally length and multi-phase play.

10 Modifications to the service rule have changed the act of service from simply a means of putting the ball in play to an offensive weapon. The concept of rotation is entrenched to allow for all-round athletes. The RULES on player positions must permit teams to have flexibility and to create interesting developments in tactics. Competitors use this framework to contest techniques, tactics and power. The framework also allows players a freedom of expression to enthuse spectators and viewers. And the image of VOLLEYBALL is increasingly a good one. THE REFEREE WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORKThe essence of a good OFFICIAL lies in the concept of fairness and consistency: to be fair to every participant, to be viewed as fair by the demands a huge element of trust the referee must be trusted to allow the players to entertain: by being accurate in his/her judgement; by understanding why the rule is written; by being an efficient organizer; by allowing the competition to flow and by directing it to a conclusion; by being an educator using the RULES to penalise the unfair or admonish the impolite; by promoting the game that is, by allowing the spectacular elements in the game to shine and the best players to do what they do best: entertain the we can say that a good referee will use the RULES to make the competition a fulfilling experience for all concerned.