Futsal
Team sport, variant of association football / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.[1]
Highest governing body | FIFA, AMF and WCF-League |
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First played | 1930, Montevideo, Uruguay |
Characteristics | |
Contact | Limited |
Team members | 5 per side |
Type | Indoor |
Equipment | Futsal ball |
Venue | Futsal court |
Presence | |
Olympic | No (except the Youth Olympics since 2018) |
Paralympic | No |
Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is the goalkeeper. Unlimited substitutions are permitted. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, it is played on a hard court surface marked by lines; walls or boards are not used. It is played with a smaller, harder, lower-bounce ball than association football.[2] The surface, ball and rules favour ball control and passing in small spaces.[3][4]
The game emphasizes control, improvisation, creativity and technique.[5]