American Football Rules - IFAF 2022
Rule 1 - The Game, Field, Players and Equipment
Section 1 - General Provisions
Section 2 - The Field
Section 3 - The Ball
Section 4 - Players and Playing Equipment
Rule 2 - Definitions
Sections 1 to 10
Sections 11 to 20
Sections 21 to 30
Sections 31 to 35
Rule 3 - Periods, Time Factors and Substitutions
Section 1 - Start of Each Period
Section 2 - Playing Time and Intermissions
Section 3 - Timeouts: Starting and Stopping the Clock
Section 4 - Delays/Clock Tactics
Section 5 - Substitutions
Rule 4 - Ball in Play, Dead Ball, Out of Bounds
Section 1 - Ball in Play – Dead Ball
Section 2 - Out of Bounds
Rule 5 - Series of Downs, Line to Gain
Section 1 - A Series: Started, Broken, Renewed
Section 2 - Down and Possession After a Penalty
Rule 6 - Kicks
Section 1 - Free Kicks
Section 2 - Free Kick Out of Bounds
Section 3 - Scrimmage Kicks
Section 4 - Opportunity to Catch a Kick
Section 5 - Fair Catch
Rule 7 - Snapping and Passing the Ball
Section 1 - The Scrimmage
Section 2 - Backward Pass and Fumble
Section 3 - Forward Pass
Rule 8 - Scoring
Section 1 - Value of Scores
Section 2 - Touchdown
Section 3 - Try Down
Section 4 - Field Goal
Section 5 - Safety
Section 6 - Touchback
Section 7 - Responsibility and Impetus
Rule 9 - Conduct of Players and Others Subject to the Rules
Section 1 - Personal Fouls
Section 2 - Unsportsmanlike Conduct Fouls
Section 3 - Blocking, Use of Hands or Arms
Section 4 - Batting and Kicking
Section 5 - Fighting
Section 6 - Flagrant Fouls
Rule 10 - Penalty Enforcement
Section 1 - Penalties Completed
Section 2 - Enforcement Procedures
Rule 11 - The Officials: Jurisdiction and Duties
Section 1 - Jurisdiction
Section 2 - Responsibilities
Rule 12 - Video judge
Section 1 - Philosophy and rationale
Section 2 - Scope of the video judge
Section 3 - Procedures