Time, Timeouts and the Clock

A futsal match is played in two equal periods of twenty minutes of playing time, the clock stopped whenever the ball is not in play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · recall

The periods last twenty minutes unless the referee and the two teams mutually agree otherwise.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · applied

An appointed timekeeper keeps the official time and closes the period with an acoustic signal.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2 · recall

The period ends when the timekeeper's acoustic signal sounds, even if the referees have not yet whistled.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2 · applied

With no timekeeper, the referees keep the time themselves and end the period with their whistle.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2 · recall

Each period is twenty minutes of actual playing time; the clock is stopped whenever the ball is out of play so stoppages do not shorten it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · applied

Without a mutual agreement to change it, the default is two equal twenty-minute periods.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · recall

Unlike football's running clock with added time, futsal stops the clock itself whenever the ball is not in play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · applied

The period is twenty minutes of playing time, kept by stopping the clock during stoppages rather than counting elapsed wall-clock time.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.1 · recall

The timekeeper's acoustic signal must be distinct from the referees' whistle, so everyone can tell it specifically marks the period ending.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2 · recall

A period is extended to allow a penalty kick already awarded to be taken or retaken.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · recall

Like a penalty kick, a direct free kick from the sixth-foul mark already awarded extends the period until it is completed.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · recall

Extra time past the scheduled twenty minutes is reserved for a penalty kick or a sixth-foul free kick already awarded; a corner kick isn't on that list.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

The Law reserves the extension for two live awards, a penalty kick and the sixth-foul direct free kick; an ordinary free kick isn't one of them.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

The extension covers completing the kick and its immediate phase of play, such as a rebound while the ball remains in play from it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

Both are direct chances to score already awarded before time ran out, so the Law extends play to let them be completed rather than lost to the clock.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

The extension lasts until the awarded kick is completed, which includes a retake ordered for an infringement during it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

The extension exists only to let the awarded kick and its immediate phase play out; once that concludes, the period ends.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · recall

Extra time past the whistle-scheduled twenty minutes is reserved for exactly these two live awards; every other restart simply lapses if the clock runs out first.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · recall

The extension turns on which restart was awarded, a penalty kick or a sixth-foul free kick, not on the scoreline or how badly a team wants more time.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · applied

Team officials are authorised to request a one-minute timeout, from the third referee or, if there is none, the timekeeper.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · recall

A timeout is granted only when the ball is out of play and the requesting team is about to take the restart or receive the dropped ball.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

A team that does not request its timeout in the first period is entitled only to the one timeout during the second period, not carried over.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · recall

There are no timeouts during extra time, if played.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · recall

Play has to actually stop, and stop with that side next in line for the restart, before a shouted request turns into a granted timeout.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

It isn't enough for the ball to be dead; the team asking has to be the one that is actually about to put it back into play.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

A team is entitled to one one-minute timeout per period, so using it once in each period is the full normal-time allowance, not an overuse.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

The Law names the third referee, or the timekeeper if there is no third referee, as who receives the request — a match with neither has no named recipient.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

Requesting more forcefully doesn't change anything; the timeout still waits on the ball going out of play with that team next to restart.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

An unused timeout does not carry over; a team that skips it in the first period is still limited to one timeout in the second, and none in extra time.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

Law 7 caps the half-time interval at fifteen minutes, with competition rules stating its exact length within that cap.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · recall

Any length up to the fifteen-minute ceiling is fine; twelve minutes is comfortably inside it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · applied

There is no interval between the two periods of extra time; the teams change ends and play resumes.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · recall

Although there is no full interval between extra-time periods, a drinks break of up to one minute is still allowed.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · applied

An abandoned match is replayed by default, unless competition rules or the organisers determine otherwise.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · recall

The default is a replay, but competition rules or the organisers may determine a different outcome instead.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · applied

With no competition rule addressing it, an abandoned match defaults to being replayed rather than decided on the score reached.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · applied

It is the duration, not the existence of the break, that is left to competition rules — an interval happens regardless.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · recall

The one-minute timeout is granted during a period's play; it is a separate mechanism from the half-time interval that follows the period regardless.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4–7.5 · applied

The half-time interval is capped at fifteen minutes; between extra-time periods there is no interval to cap, since the teams simply change ends.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · recall

Only a penalty kick, or a sixth-foul free kick, already awarded extends a period; an unused timeout has no bearing on that.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3–7.4 · applied

The second period's one-minute timeout is a separate entitlement that exists regardless of whether the first period's was used, since an unused one simply doesn't carry over.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

Extra time drops the timeout entirely but keeps the same extension rule for an awarded penalty kick or sixth-foul free kick.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3–7.4 · recall

The timekeeper's signal ends a period immediately unless a penalty kick or sixth-foul free kick has already been awarded, in which case play is extended to complete it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2–7.3 · applied

Whatever happened in the first period, its own single entitlement is what governs the second — nothing is added or lost for skipping it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.4 · applied

Without a competition rule saying otherwise, an abandoned match is replayed; nobody's judgement of who was "winning" enters into it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.5 · applied

The extension rule is a short, named list of two restarts; anything not on that list, corner kicks included, simply doesn't qualify.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.3 · recall

A one-minute timeout applies during a period's play; once the period-ending signal has sounded there is no period left in which to grant it.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7.2 & 7.4 · applied

The stopped clock, the narrowly-defined extension and the timeout all exist to protect a fixed amount of actual playing time from being eaten by stoppages.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · recall

Competition rules may set the half-time interval's exact length up to the fifteen-minute cap; the two twenty-minute periods themselves change only by mutual agreement between the referee and both teams.

Source: FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025/26, Law 7 · recall