If a team have a player sent off and at the end of the match there's a penalty shoot out what happens when it's the 11th pair of penalties? Is the side with 10 men not able to take a penalty?
The team with 11 nominate one of their players to not take one during the shot out. 10 takers each then they start again
From memory, the ruling is "If at the beginning of kicks from the penalty mark one side has more players on the pitch than the other, then the side with more players must select an appropriate number of players who will not take part. For example, if Team A has 11 players but Team B only has 10, then Team A will choose one player who will not take part. Players deselected cannot play any part in the procedure: so a goalkeeper cannot be deselected from kicking while retained for saving. This applies whether players are absent through injury or being sent off. The rule was introduced by the International Football Association Board in February 2000 because previously an eleventh kick would be taken by the eleventh (i.e. weakest) player of a full-strength team and the first (i.e. strongest) player of a sub-strength team.However, if a player is injured or sent off duringthe shoot-out, the same principle does not apply and the referee does not reduce the number of players on the opposing team."
I should think that after each team has taken 10 penalties then they would start again presumably the weakest player on the team with 11 players would not have to take one.
I mentioned this a few weeks back. Michael Owen, uneducated berk that he is, asked why a West Ham player had been missed out of a shoot-out.
I just googled "how many penalty takers in a penalty shout out" and that was in the first entry which was the Wikipedia one. I knew the basics of it but not the detail.
This is the wiki entry: "If at the beginning of kicks from the penalty mark one side has more players on the pitch than the other, then the side with more players must select an appropriate number of players who will not take part. For example, if Team A has 11 players but Team B only has 10, then Team A will choose one player who will not take part. Players deselected cannot play any part in the procedure: so a goalkeeper cannot be deselected from kicking while retained for saving. This applies whether players are absent through injury or being sent off. The rule was introduced by the International Football Association Board in February 2000 because previously an eleventh kick would be taken by the eleventh (i.e. weakest) player of a full-strength team and the first (i.e. strongest) player of a sub-strength team. However, if a player is injured or sent off during the shoot-out, the same principle does not apply and the referee does not reduce the number of players on the opposing team." Castro's Coffin has a good memory!
