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Official
Volleyball Rules – With Simple Language
Explore official volleyball rules in easy to understand format. Check
also our volleyball rules cases, in which we present the rules in the
real game situations, which help you to use rules to your advantage on the
court.
To see the volleyball rules cases, go to the bottom of the Basic Volleyball Rules Section.
Official
Volleyball Rules - in Easy to Understand Format
Volleyball player
crossing the center line
Player is NOT allowed to contact the opponent’s court with any part of
the BODY.
Player is allowed to contact the opponent’s court with the foot, if the
part of the foot is on the own court side (either on the ground or
above the court).
In other words stepping to the other side is a mistake, only if the
whole foot is on the opponent's court side.
Switching
volleyball positions
Players are allowed to switch the positions after the serve – they have
to return to their own spot on the rotation after before the next serve.
To read more about the positions, go to volleyball positions. You find
them from the basic volleyball rules MAIN page.
Subs
According to international volleyball rules:
Maximum of 6 subs per game is allowed.
Player who has entered the game can be replaced only with a player who
s/he replaced (If player #12 replaces player #6, #12 can come back one
more time for player #6). No more subs are allowed concerning player #6
or player #12 during the game.
In case the player is injured, he should be substituted legally. If
subs are used team is entitled to a exceptional substitution.
Timeouts
Maximum of 2 time outs per game for a team is allowed. Time out lasts
30 seconds.
In official international competitions two 60 seconds technical
time-out are used when the leading team reaches the 8 or 16 point mark.
Official
Volleyball Rules about Serving
Serve is performed by the player in position 1, the right back player.
Serve can be performed by hand or any part of the arm. (Kick is not
allowed in serving).
A ball has to be released from the hand before hitting it (common
mistake, especially with underhand servers is to hit to ball without
releasing the ball. However, remember that even quarter of an inch
release is enough. It is correct as long as the ball is leaves the hand
before hitting it.)
At the moment of the serve (or when jumping on the jump serve), the
player has to be in the serving area.
In other words the player can not touch the back line or the ground
outside the serving area. (For example jump server is not allowed to
jump outside “the width of the backline”.)
After the serve, the player is allowed to land or step on the court.
(For example jump servers are allowed to land inside the court after
serve).
Server has to
hit the ball within 8 seconds after the whistle.
Only one toss
is allowed. (In the past two tosses were allowed and the
limit for each was 5 seconds)
More Official
Volleyball Rules
Screening
Players of the serving team cannot form an individual or collective
screen to prevent to receiving team from seeing the server of the path
of the ball.
Coach’s position
Now coaches are allowed the stand up and guide the game. (Earlier they
had to sit on the bench).
Refereeing
Referee’s hand signals: first referees show the side who won the rally,
following by the reason of the judgment. (In the past it was other way
around.)
Yellow card:
This depends again on the league rules. According to
international rules, yellow card results a loss of rally, or a sideout
and loss of rally.
Two yellow cards results the player has to leave the
playing area and stay in the penalty area for remainder of the set.
Important:
notice that the first “delay warning” does not result as a loss of
rally. "Delay warning" is different from the regular yellow
card. "Delay warning" is signaled by using yellow card -
placing it towards palm of the up lifted hand.
In some leagues in United States first yellow card doesn’t
result a loss of rally.
Delays
Inappropriate requests and actions which delay the game are not
allowed.
For example illegal subs, prolonged subs or improper request
are delaying the game. They result a delay “warning” or “penalty”.
Those
sanctions remain in effect to the end of the match.
Referee signals the delay “warning” or “penalty” by holding the yellow
or red card on the hand - and placing it toward the palm of the other
hand. Notice that the signals differ from the “regular” yellow or red
card.
First delay offense per team results as a “warning”. The second
one, “penalty” results a loss of rally.
“Official
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