Insporta’s futsal curriculum has three published levels of five sub-levels each, 750 questions in 75 tests: level 1 teaches how the game works, level 2 the Laws in practice, and level 3 core skills and team shape. The rules levels are written from the FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, in force since 5 September 2025, and the skills level from the FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual published in 2025. Every test is ten questions with four options and one correct answer, and every question turns on something futsal does differently from eleven-a-side football.
How the futsal curriculum is organised
Futsal follows the same ten-level ladder as football, Beginner to Professional, and all ten levels are mapped so that each can be written not to repeat the one before. Levels are still written one at a time, in the order of the ladder, and each passes the process described in How Insporta writes a test: a plan of five sub-levels, a duplicate hunt against every question already live, and a fact check of the correct answer and the three wrong options against the Laws.
Level 1: Beginner, how the game works
Level 1 is how futsal actually works. The shape of a match: five a side including the goalkeeper, two twenty-minute periods of stopped time, how a match is won, drawn and decided, the coin toss and the kick-off, and where the game came from (Juan Carlos Ceriani, Montevideo, 1930). The court and the kit: the markings, the penalty area of two quarter-circles rather than a rectangle, the ten-metre second penalty mark, the substitution zones, the three-by-two-metre goals and the low-bounce ball. Players and the bench: rolling substitutions through a team’s own zone, up to nine substitutes, changing the goalkeeper and the flying goalkeeper. Scoring and restarts: the kick-in that replaces the throw-in, the goal clearance thrown rather than kicked, the corner, the four-second rule and the absence of offside. And fouls and cards: direct against indirect free kicks, the two-minute numerical reduction after a send-off, and what changes at a team’s sixth foul in a period.
Level 2: Elementary, the Laws in practice
Level 2 takes the Laws level 1 introduced into procedural depth: how the clock actually behaves and when a period is extended, the exact conditions on the one-minute timeout, free-kick procedure and the accumulated-foul count in more depth, the penalty kick and the kick-in, the goal clearance and the corner kick, the dropped ball and the ball striking the ceiling, and the match officials (the referee and second referee, the third referee and the timekeeper) and their disciplinary powers, including the goalkeeper’s restrictions and improper substitution.
Level 3: Pre-Intermediate, core skills and team shape
Level 3 moves from the Laws into what each skill and each shape is. Technique on the ball: sole control and the roll, the toe-poke and why a tight court rewards it, the passing surfaces, the feint and first touch out of pressure. Positions and formations: goleiro, fixo, ala and pivô and the job of each; the 4-0, 3-1 and 2-2 bases; rotations and making width on a narrow court. Attacking play: rotation to unbalance a defence, the give-and-go, blocks and screens, the overload and the flying goalkeeper as a five-against-four. Defending play: individual against zonal marking, the half-court and full-court press, defending the pivot and defending four-against-five. And set pieces plus the goalkeeper’s own role in build-up, distribution and the one-against-one.
Which sources the questions are written from
Two FIFA publications. The FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council and effective 5 September 2025, is the source for every rule in levels 1 and 2; futsal’s Laws are not on the annual cycle of the football Laws, so 2025/26 is the current edition and there is no 2026/27. The FIFA Futsal Coaching Manual (2025) is the source for the skills and tactics of level 3 and for the sport’s origins in level 1. Both are free to download but neither is open-licensed, so questions are authored in original wording from the source, never reproduced from it, and each question cites a specific Law or chapter in its source reference rather than in the question itself. Where the manual does not pin a piece of craft down, well-established futsal coaching practice is the reference.
The facts checked while writing and reviewing these tests are listed Law by Law at Futsal fact checks.
What is deliberately out of scope
Strength and conditioning protocols, training loads and the biomechanics of the athlete’s body are out of scope, as they are in every Insporta sport. The rule specific to futsal is stricter: anything that reads identically for association football is out. A question about a plain throw-in, a rectangular penalty area, an offside line or unlimited match time would have the same answer in eleven-a-side and teaches nothing about futsal, so every question has to turn on the kick-in, the four-second rule, accumulated fouls, the flying goalkeeper, rolling substitutions, the quarter-circle penalty area or stopped time. Where a rule could not be confirmed in the current Laws, such as the detail of the last-two-minutes stoppages, it is left out rather than asked on an unverified claim. The reasoning behind the construct is in Sport-specific knowledge, not generic brain training.
What is planned next
Levels 4 to 10 are mapped and will be written in order. Level 4 is systems and tactics: the base systems, chaining rotations, pressing as a unit, the two transitions and managing the game by score and clock. Level 5 is the special situations with no equivalent in eleven-a-side: the flying goalkeeper in attack and defence, the sixth foul and the ten-metre kick, rehearsed set pieces and the end-game. Level 6 is reading and analysing the game, level 7 positional specialisms (pivot, ala, fixo, the goalkeeper and goalkeeper distribution), level 8 coaching and player development with physical preparation left out, level 9 history and evolution from Ceriani’s court in 1930 to how the Laws changed, and level 10 the competitive game today, from the FIFA Futsal World Cup to the domestic leagues and the women’s game, including the first FIFA Women’s Futsal World Cup in 2025.