The Rules

Soccer has a large amount of rules that need to be enforced when playing the sport, so I will only talk about a few important ones. The main goal of the sport is to defeat the opposing team by scoring goals against them. There are many different types of rules for different games of soccer, but typically in an outdoor field, there are 11 players per team on each side of the field. Depending on the type of game and field, there could be between 2 and 9 substitutes and reserves sitting on the bench. There is a referee within the field enforcing rules such as hand ball, offsides, fouls, etc...and two others outside of the field assisting him.