Here you will find advice and guidance on elements of the Rules of the Hockey. This section has been updated to include the new FIH Rules of Hockey 2009.
A Guide to Umpiring the FIH 2009 Rules of Hockey
David Lane, Chair of the England Hockey Rules and Officiating Committee, has compiled the following guidance document in relation to the changes to the rules of outdoor hockey that appear in the FIH 2009 Rules of Hockey.
To download the guidance click here or on the document on the right of the page.
Temporary and Permanent Suspensions of Players (and Substitutes) for both Indoor Hockey and Outdoor Hockey.
Some umpires have become confused when reading rule 14 regarding Personal Penalties.
Anyone reading rule 14 on its own (in either the outdoor or the indoor rules) should remember that the definition of a player is “One of the participants in a team”, and that the definition of a Team covers the players on the pitch and substitutes.
Rule 14.1 makes it clear that any player can be cautioned, warned, temporarily suspended or permanently suspended. As the term “player” refers to players on the pitch and to substitutes, all these actions can be taken with a substitute in exactly the same way as for a player on the pitch.
14.1 (c) and 14.1 (d) also make it clear that if any player is suspended, whether temporarily (yellow card) or permanently (red card), the affected team plays with one less player for the duration of the suspension. This applies equally whether the player being suspended happened to be on the pitch or happened to be a substitute at the time of the suspension.
