Socca is a small-sided team sports variant of association football, best known in 6-a-side 40-minute format. It is also played in a 7-a-side format.
The International Socca Federation (ISF) is an event organizer for Socca.
Terminology and Understanding
Socca is governed by the International Socca Federation (ISF), one of the global governing bodies of small-sided football. ISF differs from the WMF, the governing body of minifootball, as they organise, manage, and host 5-, 6-, and 7-a-side international club and national tournaments and competitions. It's understood that Socca is intermediate between amateur football, small-sided football, and futsal in terms of field dimensions and number of players per side, players from all of these codes have been selected for national ISF team competitions.
Matches are played on artificial turf. The maximum field of play is , and the size of the goal is .
Yellow cards may result in the offending player being sent to the "sin bin" for 2 minutes. Red cards work in the same way as association football, the offending player being dismissed from the match. Regional competitions also exist, such as the Socca EuroCup, the Socca Gulf Cup, and the Socca Americup.
See also
- Five-a-side football
- Seven-a-side football
- Indoor soccer
- Freestyle football
- Street football