Penalty Box - Other Sports

Other Sports

The following sports use penalty boxes (by that or another name) in some form:

• Bandy
• Field hockey
• Handball
• International Rules football
• Lacrosse
• Ringette
• Water polo
• Roller Derby

The hybrid sport of International Rules football presents a slight anomaly since penalty boxes are native to neither of the sports from which International Rules was conceived, namely Gaelic football and Australian rules football (although the Gaelic Athletic Association did experiment with the idea, before moving on to another experimental format, which requires a player given a yellow card to be substituted).

Proposals to introduce penalty boxes in association football (soccer) have been discussed by the International Football Association Board, but a proposal by the Irish Football Association to trial the idea was rejected in 2009. Some Indoor soccer leagues and competitions already utilise them. In small sided football (i.e., 5-, 6- and 7-a-side), "timed suspensions" are used, and indicated by a blue card, instead of the traditional yellow for a caution. Periods of suspensions vary depending on the match length (e.g., a 25-minute-half match has a suspension of 5 minutes) and are defined in the competition's rules.

In professional wrestling the promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling has used a penalty box in the King of the Mountain match, where instead of retrieving an object hanging above the ring, the winner is the first person to use a ladder to hang a championship belt above the ring — after having scored a pinfall or submission (pinfalls count anywhere) to earn the right to try. A wrestler who has been pinned or forced to submit must spend two minutes in a penalty box.