offside
Also known as offside rule, off side, off-side, 11th Law of association football, Offside (association football), offside trap
law in association football
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An assistant referee signals for offside by raising his flag.
Offside is one of the laws in association football, codified in Law 11 of the Laws of the Game. The law states that a player is in an offside position if any of their body parts, except the hands and arms, are in the opponents' half of the pitch and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last opponent is usually, but not necessarily, the goalkeeper).