Socca

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Socca
Highest governing body International Socca Federation
Characteristics
ContactYes
Team members6 per side (including goalkeeper)
Mixed-sex No
Type Team sport, Football
Presence
Olympic No
Paralympic No

Socca is a team sports variant of football, best known in 6-a-side 40-minute format. [1] [2]

Contents

The International Socca Federation (ISF) is a governing body for socca. [3]

History and rules

Socca mainly differs from minifootball in larger size of the field, game durations, penalty kick style, focusing of semi and fully professional, in addition to futsal and retired football players. [4]

Matches are played in 2 halves of 20 (sometimes 25) minutes each. Teams consist of a goalkeeper and five outfield players. [5] [6] [7]

Matches are played on both natural and synthetic turf. The size of the field is 30x50 m, the size of the goal is 2x5 m. [8] [9] [10]

Competitions

Socca EuroCup 2024, Serbia - Georgia Socca EuroCup 2024 - Sebia - Georgia.jpg
Socca EuroCup 2024, Serbia - Georgia

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Socca Rules – Socca".
  2. ↑ Keogh, Frank (9 October 2019). "Sun, sea and six-a-side - football's other world cup". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  3. ↑ "News – Socca".
  4. ↑ "Что такое Socca". СПОРТ.UA.
  5. ↑ https://www.soccamexico.com/
  6. ↑ https://www.soccamexico.com/ireland-championships-latest/
  7. ↑ https://dailysports.net/news/ukraine-lost-to-kazakhstan-in-the-world-cup-final/
  8. ↑ https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-sport/news-for-the-first-time-in-history-ukraine-became-the-vice-world-champion-in-socca-12-06-2023.html
  9. ↑ https://www.essen2023.com/soccaworldcup/
  10. ↑ https://www.soccatours.com/
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