Goalball - Penalties

Penalties

A penalty throw may be awarded for:

• A team taking more than ten seconds to throw the ball
• A player throwing a ball a third time consecutively
• Illegal Defence – defending a ball while out of your team area
• Short ball/high ball/long ball – ball does not land correctly in opponent's court
• Touching eyeshades
• Causing undue delay to the game – unnecessary eye shade checks, etc.
• Unsportsmanlike conduct
• Peeking
• Excessive noise
• Illegal coaching – coaching from the bench during play or after an official has said "Quiet please" with intentions of continuing or starting play. New rules in effect as of 2006 allow coaching from the bench during an "official timeout" in the United States, to comply with more of IBSAs rules.

In a penalty situation a single player is required to defend the entire goal for one throw.