Talk:International Football Association Board

Question
Could some one pls help me my grandfather played for the isle of man international team in 1954 his name is Samual stewart and he has lost all of his memerabial if anyone can help pls contact me on ######## (email address removed) - anon

Home nations power on the IFAB
Would it be fair to say that the Home Nations' FA representatives now basically rubber-stamp FIFA proposals? Jooler 21:55, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

That is not true. --201.53.52.227 16:33, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Questions and Answers to the Laws of the Game
Dear members, My name is Sérgio, from Brazil, referee. I've a question about a situation in the "Questions and Answers to the Laws of the Game", law 3 - questions 13 first answers, where it's:

A substitute, warming up behind his own goal, enters the field of play and prevents the ball entering the goal with his foot. What action does the referee take? The referee stops play, cautions the substitute for unsporting behaviour and the match is restarted with an indirect free kick to the opposing team where the ball was when play was stopped *.

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I think that the answers correctly is following: The substitute player should be sends-off because prevents the goal and the game is restarted with an indirect free kick to the opposing team where the ball was when play was stopped *.

Because I think that I've sends-off: In the "Laws of the Game 2006" for Step 12 Fouls and Misconduct, Sending-Off Offences say's: A player, substitute or substituted player is sent off and shown the red card if he commits any of the following seven offences:

5: denies an obvious goalscoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick

am I correctly?

Please, I need your help...

I want to Thank the attention for me.

First meeting
There have been some edits corrupting the info about the formation of the IFAB. It originally said 1882 Manchester, and then someone changed it to 1886 and this was called into question and then a meeting in Holborn for 1886 replaced the Manchester meeting. However from we have ''In 1882, the Football Association, firm in its resolve there should be uniformity in the laws, invited the associations of Scotland, Wales and Ireland to a meeting to discuss the formation of a board to settle their differences and to organize an international championship. Scotland at first declined the invitation, relenting only after the Football Association threatened to end the yearly international matches. At the meeting, held in Manchester on December 6, 1882, the four associations adopted a uniform code and established the International Football Association Board to approve changes in the laws. Each association was given equal voting rights on the board.'' Jooler 12:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * However the minutes of the first meeting in 1886 can be found here -http://ssbra.org/html/laws/IFABarc/pdf/1886/18861ST.pdf The fact that a date is given for the 1882 meeting suggest there was was a meeting in Manchester, and perhaps here the IFAB was proposed. Jooler 12:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this pins it down a bit more.
 * 1882: A conference was held in Manchester on December 6th, where certain alterations to the existing Laws were agreed by representatives of the four British Associations (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales). There were no changes made to the off-side Law.


 * 1885: The Manchester Conference of 1882, led to the creation of the "International Football Association Board" who became the single Law authority. To begin with, the International Board consisted of two representatives from each of the four United Kingdom Associations, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Today, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) consists of the four UK associations, and FIFA. Each shall be entitled to be represented by four delegates. Because the first Laws were historically promulgated in England, the authentic text is written in English and then translated into other languages.

Jooler 12:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The IFAB website claims the organisation was started in 1886. https://www.theifab.com/ 37.170.75.124 (talk) 18:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

UK members & Olympics
The presence of 4 UK members on the board is the main reason why the UK has no Olympic football team - since they think a unified team will harm their existence as separate entities. Perhaps there should be a section on this? Malick78 (talk) 15:27, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * While I'm sure the home nations' governing bodies enjoy their level of influence in the IFAB, surely resistance to a unified Olympic team is more about a perceived threat to their (arguably anachronistic) separate existence as national teams in international competitions? Jellyman (talk) 23:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The main opposition to a single UK team for the olympics comes from the three smaller Associations, they know that there is little chance of one of 'their' players making the team. No disrespect meant to Scottish, Welsh or NI football, it's a simple matter of maths with England making up 84% of the UK population. Markb (talk) 09:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe Jellyman to be more on the money. A combined UK team is not a fruitful alliance. 84.92.169.252 (talk) 15:17, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Do you pronounce "IFAB" as one word or letter by letter? E. g. "eefupp" or "I.F.A.B."? I'm a little confused regarding this because "FIFA" is pronounced as one word. --31.17.159.244 (talk) 03:34, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Never heard this spoken aloud before, but I did a search and according to this FIFA video, it's eye-fab. I don't think including this pronunciation is necessary for this article. --LukeSurlt c 09:13, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Serie A video replay chosen by IFAB
Should/how can this be included:

On 14 April 2016, it was announced Serie A was selected by the International Football Association Board to test video replays, which will initially be private for the 2016–17 season, before allowing them to become a live pilot phase with replay assistance by the 2017–18 season at the latest; while Italian Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio says, "We were among the first supporters of using technology on the pitch and we believe we have everything required to offer our contribution to this important experiment." Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 20:07, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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Location Maps
Here are maps of the locations of the IFAB meetings. They could be inserted in the article if editors think they would add value. Grover cleveland (talk) 00:43, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * That's impressive work, but I don't think the meetings and their locations are particularly important to the reader. --LukeSurlt c 10:15, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

OWN GOAL
WHY DOES IT COUNT AS AN OWN GOAL WHEN THE BALL DIDNT CROSS THE LINE BUT THE GOALIE CAUGHT IT AND CROSSED LINE???? HOW TF DOES THAT MAKE ONE BIT OF SENSE??? SHOULD ONLY BE AN OWN GOAL IF SOMEONE KICKS THE BALL IN, NOT ALL THIS CROSSING THE LINE BS!!!!!!!! 86.1.169.113 (talk) 19:43, 9 September 2023 (UTC)