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After I score a goal, how long do my teammates and I have to celebrate and hug before the ball is put back into play? How is the ball put back into play (they don’t show this on TV)? Does the ref wait until my teammates and I are ready, or does he put it back into play regardless of where we are?
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In the knockout stage, how are ties resolved? Does it go straight to penalty kicks, or is there a soccer equivalent of overtime played first?
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If a play is in progress when time ends (say I’ve just launched the ball toward the goal from 70 meters), does the play get to finish or does the game just end, regardless of the outcome of the last play?
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What type of situation (if any) leads directly to a penalty kick?
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If it’s the waning seconds of the game and my team desperately needs a goal, can I put all 11 men into attack? I realize that this is a terrible strategy, but theoretically would I be allowed to have all 11 men on my opponent’s side of midfield? Or do the rules state that certain players (such as the goalie and the defenders) must stay on their own side of midfield at all times?
The ball is brought to the middle of the pitch where the team that got a goal against gets to put it back into play. This is done by two of their players facing each other on the middle line. One kicks the ball to the other, the other gets to bring the ball into the game. I think the rule is that the first kick can only be on the own half of the pitch
There’s two times fifteen minutes of overtime. There was a time when there was a golden goal but they don’t do that anymore.
The play gets to finish. A ref will never whistle when an attack is still in full progress.
Bookable offenses inside the penalty area.
Yea, it has happened repeatedly that the goal keeper scored in injury time. There’s no rule dictating where players need to be on the pitch.
The team who has just conceded kicks-off from the centre spot just like at the start of the match/second half. The ref will wait till everyone is back in their own half. I don’t think there’s a hard and fast rule about how long goal celebrations can last, but there are things you aren’t supposed to do eg take your shirt off.
Yup, two periods of 15 minutes each.
It’s up to the ref. Usually, they will let a set piece like a corner or free kick play out. A penalty kick will always be given enough time to be taken.
Any foul that would normally lead to a direct free kick, by the defending side within the penalty box, leads to a penalty.
It’s not uncommon in the dying moments of a match for the keeper to charge upfield if there’s a corner. Peter Schmeichel (ex of Man Utd) did this a lot and scored like 12 goals or something in his career. There’s no zonal restriction on player position.
Here’s a goalie coming up for a corner and scoring.
From FIFA
A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any
of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be
careless, reckless or using excessive force:
• kicks or attempts to kick an opponent
• trips or attempts to trip an opponent
• jumps at an opponent
• charges an opponent
• strikes or attempts to strike an opponent
• pushes an opponent
• tackles an opponent
A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any
of the following three offences:
• holds an opponent
• spits at an opponent
• handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own
penalty area)
A penalty kick is awarded if any of the above ten offences is committed by
a player inside his own penalty area, irrespective of the position of the ball,
provided it is in play.
And here’s an (in)famous case in which the referee didn’t allow a corner kick to be played out at the end of the game: (from 5:40)
The ref is notorious stickler Clive Thomas.
Just to provide a little extra bit of information, a free kick being “direct” means that a goal may be scored directly from the kick. As opposed to an indirect free kick, where another player must touch the ball before a goal will be counted. If a player takes an indirect free kick and scores from it without the ball touching another player, it doesn’t count.
And indirect free kicks in a forward position are relatively rare, being awarded for things like obstruction. If you get an indirect free kick in the penalty area, it is taken as usual from the spot where the offence occurred, so you sometimes get the strange spectacle of most of the defending team standing on the goal line while the attack blasts the free kick at them (after an initial touch, because it needs to be indirect), possibly from much closer than a regular penalty kick.
The seasonfinale 2001 in the Bundesliga was decided by a free kick in the box, even more, it happened in additional time. Two teams were fighting for the title: Schalke 04 and Bayern München/Munich; Schalke was three points behind but had a much better goal difference, which meant that they needed a win while Bayern had to lose in Hamburg.
Schalke played at home against SpVgg Unterhaching and won 5:3; Hamburg scored against Bayern 1:0 and when the game ended at Schalke everyone thought that the club was the new champion: thousands of fans ran on the field, the players and even the coach were already celebrating, a reporter interviewed the manager telling him that the match in Hamburg was over and Bayern had lost – but that was not the case. They were still playing, far in additional time.
A player from Hamburg kicked the ball to his keeper and instead of playing it with his foot, he grabbed the ball with his hands which meant: free kick. Bayern scored, the game was over, Schalke lunged from euphoria into horror.
You can see the goal that decided in all at 1:52 min in the video.
The rule is that the game ends when time is up. The referee is not supposed to allow the play in progress to finish. If the ball is in the air and one yard from the goal-line, no defenders can stop the ball crossing the line, and the whistle blows before the ball crosses the line, the goal does not stand.
The sole exception to this is that a penalty kick must be taken. Even then, as soon as it is determined whether the ball crosses the line the play ends. If it hits the post, bounces out and the ball is struck home on the rebound, the goal does not count.
The Laws of the Game (pdf file) support this by stating the duration, and what time may be added on and when. See page 26.
That’s not true - you see it happen all the time.
This is also wrong - a penalty is given for a foul in the penalty area. It doesn’t have to be bookable.
The first touch has to be forward, not backward. That’s why you usually see two players in the center circle, one touches it forward and the other plays it back. If you had to play it back, then why would they have two players there?
You often see one player send the ball straight into the offensive end to a player running down the wing.
Your other errors were addressed by Scheidt-Hoch.
I’ll add a question:
I understand that the clock keeps running even during play stoppage (for injury, etc.) and that towards the end of the game a referee indicates how much time will be added to the 90 minute clock to compensate. My question is why don’t they just stop the clock during play stoppage?
Aesthetics? Used to be easier back in the olden days for some reason and just stuck with it?
I don’t understand why some people (not saying you) get upset over this. It doesn’t matter, right? Same thing, either way. Yet some people act like FIFA kicked their dog because of this.
Because the time added is supposed to be part of the referee’s discretionary power and includes also time wasting that happened even if the game hadn’t been stopped.
In reality, however, referees tend to add far too little time and reward the time wasters that way. Some suggestions have been made to reduce the benefits of time wasting: We could, for example, implement a rule that stops the clock during the last 15 minutes of the game. This would minimize the advantages of last minute substitutions that are only meant to delay the game and many of those strange injuries during the last ten minutes might be cured instantly by the knowledge that the time will be added fully at the end.
But like Snarky_Kong, I don’t consider it to be that much of a problem.
Trust me, I have more errors than you or Scheidt-Hoch could address in a million lifetimes 
I remember this once happened to Roy Race. He cracked a match winning shot into the net just as the whistle blew for full time. He thought he had won the game for Melchester Rovers only to discover, as they left the pitch, that the referee had blown full time just as Roy struck the brilliant shot. Naturally Roy accepted this with good grace.
Once your team is eliminated from the Cup, do you get to stay around and watch as spectators, or are you expected to pack up and go home?
Do you mean the players themselves? Normally, they’d all go straight home together (to be greeted at the airport by cheering fans if they’ve progressed a long way). I don’t suppose there’s anything stopping individual players staying under their own steam if they wanted to, but they generally don’t.
Yeah I meant the players themselves, sorry. That’s kinda too bad, really. I thought they’d all be given choice seats for later games and they’d all stay for the whole tournament.