Seven-a-side football

Seven-a-side football or Football 7 is one of the minifootball variations of football, which is played among seven players in each team. In the game consists of one goalkeeper and six outfield players. The pitch of seven-a-side football is bigger than that of five-a-side football, ranging from 50-65 yards in length and 25-50 yards in width respectively.

Like other minifootball variations including five-a-side football, seven-a-side football is commonly played informally with flexible rules in contrast to association football and futsal, for which official laws are maintained by the IFAB and FIFA respectively. However, there have been many official and more formal seven-a-side matches in which the laws are often determined by the officiators and pre-existing rules.

Internationally, seven-a-side football is governed by several sub-continental governing bodies, including the IFA7, FIF7, and FIFO7S, with the versions sanctioned by these governing bodies have a similar set of rules. Other versions of seven-a-side football are sanctioned by multiple organisations and competitions, including the World Minifootball Federation and International Socca Federation, in which the variations of seven-a-side football are played as a part of WMF-sanctioned minifootball and ISF-sanctioned socca, Kings League and its women's counterpart Queens League, which uses additional rules such as tiebreaker penalty shootouts and secret weapons, The Soccer Tournament, a competition with additional rules, notably the Elam Ending, and a winner-take-all $1 million prize, and World Sevens Football, a women's international tournament.