What are Disciplinary Points?

Modified on Tue, 21 May at 11:38 AM

Each disciplinary offence is allocated a points value according to its severity. If a Team reaches 75 points across the course of a season, the Club will be charged under FA Rule E20.

Points are awarded as follows:

Charge Code	Offence	Penalty Points
C1	Unsporting Behaviour	1
C2	Dissent	2
C3	Persistently infringing the Laws of the Game	1
C4	Delays the restart of play	1
C5	Fails to respect the required distance at a restart	1
C6	Enters or re-enters the field of play without the referee’s permission	1
C7	Deliberately leaves the field of play without the referee’s permission	1
S1	Serious Foul Play	5
S2	Violent Conduct	6
S3	Spitting	7
S4	Denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball	3
S5	Denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player's goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick	3
S6	Use of offensive, insulting or abusive language	4
S7	Receives a second yellow card in the same match	3
	Any proven Misconduct Charge	5*

*subject to an increase at the discretion of a Disciplinary Commission.

Disciplinary points do not have any relation to League points, and receiving disciplinary points does not mean that a team will be deducted that number of League points.