Another substitution mistake or are 12 players really one player too many on the pitch?

DFB Sports Court, 8 April 2022, no. 102/2021/2022, Sport-Club Freiburg

Date of the decision: 2022-04-08

Introduction

In Football Legal # 16 (December 2021),^{^[1]} recent decisions about “substitution mistakes” were presented, including VfL Wolfsburg’s case involving a 6th substitution even though the regulations allowed only five.

For the record, in that case, the juridical bodies of the German Football Association (DFB) decided that a 6th substituted player is not eligible anymore with the consequence that the result of the match must automatically be forfeited without...

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