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Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Regulations
2010 FIFA World Cup
South AfricaTM
Fédération Internationale de Football Association
President: Joseph S. Blatter (Switzerland)
General Secretary: Jérôme Valcke (France)
Address: FIFA
FIFA-Strasse 20
P.O. Box
8044 Zurich
Switzerland
Telephone: +41-(0)43-222 7777
Telefax: +41-(0)43-222 7878
Internet: www.FIFA.com
Regulations
2010 FIFA World Cup
South AfricaTM
11 June – 11 July 2010
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ORGANISERS
1. FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
President: Joseph S. Blatter
General Secretary: Jérôme Valcke
Address: FIFA-Strasse 20
P.O. Box
8044 Zurich
Switzerland
Telephone: +41-43/222 7777
Telefax: +41-43/222 7878
Internet: www.FIFA.com
Bank correspondent: UBS AG, Bahnhofstrasse 45
8021 Zurich, Switzerland
SWIFT address: UBSW CH ZH 80A
CHF Account No. 325.519.30U
USD Account No. 325.519.61Y
EUR Account No. 325.519.62B
2. ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA™
Chairman: Issa Hayatou
Deputy Chairmen: Julio H. Grondona, Michel Platini
3. ORGANISING ASSOCIATION: SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
President: Molefi Oliphant
General Secretary: Raymond Hack
Address: SAFA House
76 NASREC Road
NASREC Ext 3
Johannesburg
South Africa 2190
Telephone: +27 11 494 3522
Telefax: +27 11 494 3013
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Local Organising Committee
Chairman: Irvin Khoza
CEO: Danny Jordaan
Address: SAFA House
76 NASREC Road
NASREC Ext 3
Johannesburg
South Africa 2190
Telephone: +27 11 567 2010
Telefax: +27 11 494 3164
E-Mail: info@2010saloc.com
Internet: www.FIFA.com
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CONTENTS
Article Page
GENERAL PROVISIONS 6-18
1. 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM 6
2. Organising Association responsibilities 7
3. Organising Committee for the FIFA World CupTM 8
4. Participating member associations 9
5. Entries for the FIFA World CupTM 10
6. Withdrawal, penalty for failing to play and replacement 11
7. Eligibility of players 13
8. Laws of the Game 13
9. Refereeing 14
10. Disciplinary matters 15
11. Doping 15
12. Disputes 16
13. Protests 16
14. Commercial rights 18
PRELIMINARY COMPETITION 19-28
15. Entry forms 19
16. List of players 19
17. Preliminary draw, format of play and group formation 20
18. Venues, kick-off times and training sessions 22
19. Stadiums, fi elds of play, clocks, displays 24
20. Footballs 26
21. Equipment 26
22. Flags and anthems 27
23. Financial provisions 27
24. Ticketing 28
Article Page
FINAL COMPETITION 29-46
25. Final competition 29
26. List of players 29
27. Accreditation 31
28. Teams and draw for the fi nal competition 31
29. Venues, dates and kick-off times,
arrival at the venues for fi nal competition matches 32
30. Stadiums, fi elds of play, clocks, displays 34
31. Footballs 35
32. Equipment 35
33. Flags and anthems 37
34. Protocol 37
35. Media 37
36. Financial provisions 38
37. Ticketing 40
38. Final competition format 40
39. Group stage 40
40. Round of sixteen 42
41. Quarter-fi nals 43
42. Semi-fi nals 43
43. Final, play-off for third place 44
44. Trophy, awards and medals 44
FINAL PROVISIONS 47-48
45. Special circumstances 47
46. Matters not provided for 47
47. Languages 47
48. Copyright 47
49. No waiver 47
50. Enforcement 48
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™
1. The FIFA World Cup™ is a FIFA event embodied in the FIFA Statutes.
2. On 15 May 2004, the FIFA Executive Committee designated the South
African Football Association (SAFA) as the Organising Association of
the fi nal competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The Organising
Association is responsible for organising, hosting and staging the fi nal
competition, as well as the security for the duration thereof.
3. SAFA has set up a Local Organising Committee (LOC) in the form of
an internal division to organise the fi nal competition, in accordance
with the List of Requirements (LoR) and the Organising Association
Agreement (OAA) between FIFA and the Organising Association.
4. SAFA and its LOC are collectively referred to as the Organising
Association. The Organising Association is subject to the supervision
and control of FIFA, which has the last word on all matters relevant to
the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The decisions of FIFA are fi nal.
5. Working relations between the Organising Association and FIFA
are regulated in a special contract, the OAA, its annexes, the LoR,
FIFA guidelines and circulars as well as the FIFA Statutes and various
regulations. The Organising Association undertakes to observe the FIFA
Statutes, regulations, directives, decisions, guidelines, circulars as well
as the LoR and the OAA.
6. The FIFA Executive Committee has also appointed the Organising
Committee for the FIFA World Cup™ (FIFA Organising Committee) to
organise the competition.
7. The regulations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ (the
Regulations) regulate the rights, duties and responsibilities of all
associations taking part in the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and of the
Organising Association by forming an integral part of the OAA. The
Regulations and all guidelines and circulars issued by FIFA are binding
for all parties participating and involved in the preparation, organisation
and hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.
8. Any rights associated with the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ that are
not granted by these Regulations and/or specifi c agreements to a
participating member association in the preliminary or fi nal competition,
or to a confederation, belong to FIFA.
9. The FIFA Statutes and all FIFA regulations in force shall apply. Any
reference in these Regulations to the FIFA Statutes and regulations refer
to the Statutes and regulations valid at the time of application.
Article 2 Organising Association responsibilities
1. The obligations and responsibilities of the Organising Association are
stipulated in the OAA and the LoR, these Regulations and other FIFA
regulations, guidelines, directives, decisions, circulars or any other
agreement reached between FIFA and the Organising Association.
2. The responsibilities of the Organising Association shall include but not
be limited to:
a) ensuring that order and safety is maintained in cooperation with
the government of South Africa, particularly in and around the
stadiums. It shall take adequate measures to prevent and avoid
outbreaks of violence;
b) ensuring that order and safety is maintained around the
headquarters and training grounds of the participating member
associations;
c) concluding insurance policies in consultation with FIFA to cover all
risks relating to the fi nal competition’s organisation, in particular,
adequate liability insurance in respect of the stadiums, local
organisation, members of the Organising Association and the
LOC, employees, volunteers and any other persons involved in the
organisation of the fi nal competition;
d) concluding liability insurance against possible spectator accidents
or deaths;
e) ensuring the presence of a suffi cient number of ground staff and
security stewards to guarantee safety.
3. The Organising Association shall discharge FIFA from all responsibility
and relinquish any claim against FIFA and the members of its delegation
for any damages resulting from any act or omission relating to the
organisation and course of the FIFA World Cup™.
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Article 3 Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup™
1. The Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup™, appointed by the
FIFA Executive Committee, is responsible for organising the FIFA World
Cup™ in accordance with the FIFA Statutes.
2. The FIFA Organising Committee may, if necessary, appoint a bureau
and/or one or more sub-committee(s) to deal with emergencies. Any
decision taken by the bureau or the sub-committee(s) shall come into
effect immediately but shall be subject to confi rmation by the plenary
committee at its next meeting.
3. The responsibilities of the FIFA Organising Committee include, amongst
other matters:
a) supervising general preparations and deciding on the competition
format, the draw and the formation of groups and sub-groups;
b) fi xing the dates and venues of the matches in the fi nal competition
as well as in the preliminary competition whenever associations fail
to agree;
c) determining the match schedule and kick-off times for the fi nal
competition;
d) choosing the stadiums and training grounds for the fi nal competition
in accordance with the LoR and OAA after consultation with the
LOC;
e) appointing match commissioners, security offi cers and any other
FIFA offi cials;
f) judging infringements concerning the eligibility of players in the
fi nal competition (cf. art. 7, par. 2);
g) choosing the offi cial football and stipulated technical material for
the fi nal competition;
h) deciding at which matches of the preliminary competition doping
tests will be conducted;
i) reporting cases in relation to article 6 of these Regulations to the
FIFA Disciplinary Committee for its deliberation;
j) judging protests and taking appropriate steps to verify their
admissibility;
k) replacing associations that have withdrawn from the FIFA World
Cup™;
l) settling cases of force majeure;
m) dealing with any other aspect of the FIFA World Cup™ that is
not the responsibility of any other body under the terms of these
Regulations or the FIFA Statutes.
4. The decisions taken by the FIFA Organising Committee and/or its
sub-committee(s) are fi nal and binding.
Article 4 Participating member associations
1. Each participating member association shall be responsible throughout
the competition for:
a) the conduct of the members of its delegation (offi cials and players),
and of any person carrying out duties on its behalf throughout
the competition, from their arrival in the host country until their
departure;
b) concluding compulsory insurance cover, particularly health,
accident and travel insurance, for all members of its delegation;
c) paying for incidental expenses incurred by its delegation
members and for any costs incurred by additional members of the
delegation;
d) paying for any costs of extending the stay of any member of its
delegation, the duration of which is determined by FIFA;
e) applying for visas in good time from the relevant host country, if
necessary;
f) attending media conferences and other offi cial media activities
organised by FIFA in accordance with the instructions issued by
FIFA;
g) ensuring that every member of its delegation completes the FIFA
entry forms and signs the required declarations.
2. The participating member associations and their players and offi cials
agree to comply with the Laws of the Game and the FIFA Statutes and
regulations, in particular the FIFA Disciplinary Code, the FIFA Doping
Control Regulations, the FIFA Code of Ethics, the FIFA Commercial
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Regulations and the FIFA Equipment Regulations as well as all directives
and decisions of FIFA bodies unless these Regulations stipulate
otherwise. The participating member associations and their players and
offi cials also agree to comply with the Participating Member Association
Ticketing Allocation Agreement and all further FIFA guidelines and
circulars that have any signifi cance regarding the FIFA World Cup™.
3. All members of the participating member associations’ delegations shall
undertake to comply fully with the regulations and decisions taken by
FIFA bodies, in particular the Executive Committee, FIFA Organising
Committee, Referees Committee, Disciplinary Committee and Appeal
Committee.
4. Unless otherwise mentioned in these Regulations, each participating
member association hosting a match in the preliminary competition
will be responsible, among other matters, for:
a) guaranteeing, planning and implementing law and order as well
as safety and security in the stadiums and other relevant locations
in conjunction with the relevant authorities;
b) obtaining adequate insurance cover for all risks relating to match
organisation, including but not limited to public liability insurance.
FIFA shall be expressly identifi ed as a named insured party in all
such insurance policies;
c) providing the match commissioner with a DVD or video cassette
of each home match immediately after the match in question.
Article 5 Entries for the FIFA World Cup™
1. The FIFA World Cup™ takes place every four years. As a general rule,
every association affi liated to FIFA may participate in the FIFA World
Cup™ with its representative team.
2. The FIFA World Cup™ consists of two parts:
a) the preliminary competition;
b) the fi nal competition.
3. The Organising Association’s representative team, the South African
Football Association, automatically qualifi es for the fi nal competition.
4. On entering the competition, the participating member associations
and their players and offi cials automatically undertake to:
a) observe and comply with the FIFA Statutes, regulations, directives,
circulars, guidelines and decisions as well as national and
international laws;
b) accept that all the administrative, disciplinary and refereeing
matters related to the competition shall be dealt with by FIFA in
compliance with the relevant FIFA regulations;
c) participate in all matches of the competition in which their team
is scheduled to take part;
d) accept all the arrangements made by the Organising Association
in agreement with FIFA;
e) accept the use and/or sublicense by FIFA, as well as the recording
and broadcast of the images, names and records of players and
offi cials and those of participating member associations that may
appear in connection with the fi nal competition in accordance
with the FIFA Commercial Regulations;
f) provide suffi cient insurance to cover their delegation against all
risks, including but not limited to injury, accident and disease;
g) observe the principles of fair play.
Article 6 Withdrawal, penalty for failing to play and replacement
1. All participating member associations undertake to play all of their
matches until eliminated from the FIFA World Cup™.
2. Any association that withdraws between the preliminary draw and the
start of the preliminary competition is liable to a fi ne of CHF 20,000.
Any association that withdraws after the start of the preliminary
competition is liable to a fi ne of CHF 40,000.
3. Any association that withdraws no later than 30 days before the
start of the fi nal competition shall be fi ned between a minimum of
CHF 250,000 and a maximum of CHF 500,000. Any association that
withdraws less than 30 days before the start of the fi nal competition, or
during the fi nal competition itself, shall be fi ned between a minimum
of CHF 500,000 and a maximum of CHF 1,000,000.
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4. Depending on the circumstances of the withdrawal, the FIFA Disciplinary
Committee may impose additional sanctions, including the suspension
of the association concerned from subsequent FIFA competitions.
5. Any association that withdraws or is excluded from playing in the
competition may be replaced by another association. The FIFA
Organising Committee will decide on the matter at its sole discretion. No
appeals may be lodged against these decisions. Furthermore, the guilty
association will forfeit any claim to fi nancial remuneration from FIFA.
6. Depending on circumstances and the decision of the FIFA Organising
Committee, any association that withdraws may be ordered to
reimburse FIFA and the Organising Association for any expenses already
incurred as a result of its involvement in the competition, and may also
be obliged to pay compensation for any damages or losses incurred.
7. If a team does not report for a match – except in cases of force majeure
recognised by the FIFA Organising Committee – or if it refuses to
continue to play or leaves the stadium before the end of a match, the
team will be considered as having lost. The match and three points
will be awarded to its opponents with a score of 3-0 or more if, in the
case of an abandoned match, the winning team has already reached
a higher score at the time the guilty team leaves the fi eld or refuses to
continue to play.
8. The guilty team will, as a general rule, be excluded from further
participation in the competition so that none of its matches will be
deemed valid, unless the incidents mentioned in par. 7 occurred in its
last match. In addition, the guilty association shall pay compensation
for any damages or losses suffered by the other association(s) and
by FIFA. Furthermore, the guilty association will forfeit any claim to
fi nancial remuneration from FIFA. Further measures may be taken by
the FIFA Organising Committee.
9. If the circumstances of withdrawal are sufficiently serious, the
Disciplinary Committee may also take whatever additional action is
appropriate under the terms of the Disciplinary Code.
10. The relevant FIFA committee shall determine the amount of damages
for fi nancial loss upon receipt of a substantiated and documented
request from the Organising Association.
11. No appeals may be lodged against these decisions.
12. If, through the fault of a participating member association, a match
cannot take place or be played in its entirety, the FIFA Organising
Committee shall declare that the match be forfeited (awarding victory
and the resultant three points to the opposing team as well as the
score of 3-0, or greater, depending on the score in the match at the
time of abandonment) and/or exclude the team concerned from the
competition.
13. The FIFA Organising Committee shall take whatever action is deemed
necessary in cases of force majeure.
Article 7 Eligibility of players
1. Each association shall ensure the following when selecting its
representative team for the FIFA World Cup™:
a) all players shall be citizens of its country and subject to its
jurisdiction;
b) all players shall be eligible for selection in accordance with the
Regulations Governing the Application of the FIFA Statutes and
other relevant FIFA regulations.
2. Any team that is found guilty of fi elding an ineligible player shall forfeit
the match in question. Victory and the resultant three points will be
awarded to the opposing team as well as the score of 3-0, or greater,
depending on the score of the match. The FIFA Organising Committee
is the competent body to decide in this regard.
Article 8 Laws of the Game
1. All matches shall be played in accordance with the Laws of the Game
in force at the time of the tournament and as laid down by the
International Football Association Board. In the case of any discrepancy
in the interpretation of the Laws of the Game, the English version shall
be authoritative.
2. Each match shall last 90 minutes, comprising two periods of
45 minutes, with a half-time interval of 15 minutes.
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3. If, in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, extra time
is to be played as the result of a draw at the end of normal playing
time, it shall always consist of two periods of 15 minutes each, with
an interval of fi ve minutes at the end of normal playing time, but not
between the two periods of extra time.
4. If the score is still level after extra time, penalty kicks will be taken to
determine the winner in accordance with the procedure described in
the Laws of the Game.
Article 9 Refereeing
1. The referees, assistant referees and fourth offi cials for the preliminary
and fi nal competitions will be appointed for each match by the FIFA
Re