Each disciplinary offence is allocated a points value according to its severity. If a Team reaches 75 points across the course of a season, the Club will be charged under FA Rule E20.
Points are awarded as follows:
Charge Code | Offence | Penalty Points |
C1 | Unsporting Behaviour | 1 |
C2 | Dissent | 2 |
C3 | Persistently infringing the Laws of the Game | 1 |
C4 | Delays the restart of play | 1 |
C5 | Fails to respect the required distance at a restart | 1 |
C6 | Enters or re-enters the field of play without the referee’s permission | 1 |
C7 | Deliberately leaves the field of play without the referee’s permission | 1 |
S1 | Serious Foul Play | 5 |
S2 | Violent Conduct | 6 |
S3 | Spitting | 7 |
S4 | Denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball | 3 |
S5 | 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 | 3 |
S6 | Use of offensive, insulting or abusive language | 4 |
S7 | Receives a second yellow card in the same match | 3 |
| Any proven Misconduct Charge | 5* |
*subject to an increase at the discretion of a Disciplinary Commission.
Disciplinary points do not have any relation to League points, and receiving disciplinary points does not mean that a team will be deducted that number of League points.
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