The flag is up! We explain what that means and why one of soccer's most important rules is also one of the toughest to see ...

The Sporting News breaks down the offside rule, how it is enforced and why it's a part of the game.

Offside is a law in association football which states that if a player is in an offside position when the ball is touched or played by a teammate, he may not become actively involved in the play. A ...

Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s chief of global football development, is championing a major change to football’s offside law. The former Arsenal manager first proposed his “daylight” rule in 2020, aiming to ...

Another way is for the officials to use VAR (Video Assistant Referee) to go back and look at the play to determine if it was ...

FIFA wants football’s law-making body the International Football Association Board (IFAB) to press on with trials of what would be the biggest change to the offside rule in over 30 years. Championed ...

The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) is considering scrapping the offside rule for amateur matches in response to a surge in violent incidents stemming from disputed decisions. Last season ...

The offside rule is perhaps one of the most controversial rules ever applied to football. In simple terms, the rule (or “law” as FIFA calls it) explains that a player is considered offside if he or ...

The offside call is often as consequential a call as a foul inside the penalty box in a soccer match. It’s often the reason a goal gets overturned. Or two goals. Video replay showed dos Santos onside ...

April 18 - A goal scored under soccer's experimental "daylight" offside rule was allowed for the first time in a professional match on Saturday, with Pacific FC forward Alejandro Diaz on target in a 2 ...