Blind Football

Football 5-a-side,[1] more commonly known as Blind Football or Blind Soccer, is a variation of association football designed for players who are blind or visually impaired. It is currently a Paralympic sport, and the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) also organizes a World Blind Football Championships.[2]

Blind Soccer match

Overview

According to IBSA, "football for the blind and partially sighted started out as a playground game for school children in special schools for the visually impaired."

Football 5-a-side, also known as blind football and blind futsal, is an adaptation of football for athletes with visual impairments including blindness. The sport, governed by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA), is played with modified FIFA rules. The field of play is smaller, and is surrounded by boards. Teams are reduced to five players, including the goalkeeper, per team. Teams may also use one guide, who is positioned off the field of play, to assist in directing players. The ball is equipped with a noise-making device to allow players to locate it by sound. Matches consist of two 20-minute halves, with a ten-minute break at half-time.

Football 5-a-side players are assigned to one of three sport classes based on their level of visual impairment:

  • B1 – Totally or almost totally blind; from no light perception up to light perception but inability to recognise the shape of a hand.
  • B2 – Partially sighted; able to recognise the shape of a hand up to a visual acuity of 2/60 or a visual field of less than 5 degrees.
  • B3 – Partially sighted; visual acuity from 2/60 to 6/60 or visual field from 5 to 20 degrees

Teams are permitted to use sighted athletes as goalkeepers and guides; sighted goalkeepers cannot have been registered with FIFA for at least five years.

Two types of competition exist. For Class B1 games, only athletes with sport class B1 are permitted as players, with the exception of the goalkeepers and the guides, who may be class B2, B3, or sighted. For Class B2/B3 games, teams can field players in sport classes B2 and B3; at least two B2 players must be on the field at all times.

5-a-side football in Europe was developed in Spain. The first Spanish national championships took place in Spain in 1986. In South America, there are records of a Brazilian Tournament organized in 1980. European and American Championships took place in 1997, followed by the first World Championships in 1998. The sport was added to the Summer Paralympic Games in 2004.

As of 2022, there were 46 countries in the men's ranking.[3]

Rules

Generally speaking, the rules of blind football are very similar to the rules of futsal. There are, however, some important exceptions:

  • All players, except for the goalkeeper, are blindfolded.
  • The ball has been modified to make a jingling or rattling sound.
  • Players are required to say "voy", "go", or something similar when going for the ball; this alerts the other players about their position.
  • A guide, positioned outside the field of play, provides instructions to the players.

Notable players

Results

B1

Years Venues Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
1998
Details
Brazil Campinas  Brazil 1–0  Argentina  Spain 2–0  Colombia 6
2000
Details
Spain
Jerez
 Brazil 3–0  Argentina  Spain 4–0  Greece 8
2002
Details
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
 Argentina 4–2  Spain  Brazil 2–0  Colombia 9
2006
Details
Argentina
Buenos Aires
 Argentina 1–0  Brazil  Paraguay 2–1  Spain 8
2010
Details
England
Hereford
 Brazil 2–0  Spain  China 1–0  England 10
2014
Details
Japan
Tokyo
 Brazil 1–0  Argentina  Spain 0–0
(2–0 in penalties)
 China 12
2018
Details
Spain
Madrid
 Brazil 2–0  Argentina  China 2–1  Russia 16

Source: IBSA Football – Results Archived 20 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine

B2/B3 (Partially Sighted)

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
1998
Details
Brazil
Campinas
 Belarus 3–2  Spain  Italy 9–2  Argentina 6
2002
Details
Italy
Varese
 Belarus 14–2  Russia  Spain 3–2  Brazil 12
2013
Details
Japan
Miyagi
 Russia 1–0
(AET)
 Ukraine  England 14–0  Japan 4
2017
Details
Italy
Cagliari
 Ukraine 3–0  England  Russia 2–2
(2–1 in penalties)
 Spain 8

Source: IBSA Football – Results Archived 20 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Women's

Year Venue Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2017
Details
Austria
Vienna
 Japan 1–0 IBSA select[lower-alpha 1]  England/ Greece select 0–0
(1–0 in penalties)
 Russia/ Canada select 4

Source: IBSA Football – Results Archived 20 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine

  1. Composed of players from Belgium, France, Germany and Austria.

IBSA Blind Football European Championships

Source:[4]

  1. 1997:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Barcelona-1997.pdf
  2. 1999:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Porto-1999-results.pdf
  3. 2001:
  4. 2003:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Manchester-2003-results-.pdf
  5. 2005:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-2005-results.pdf
  6. 2007:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-2007-results.pdf
  7. 2009:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-2009-Nantes-results.pdf
  8. 2011:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Turkey-2011-results.pdf
  9. 2013:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-2013-results-and-final-standings.pdf
  10. 2015:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Hereford-2015-results.pdf
  11. 2017:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Berlin-2017-results.pdf
  12. 2019:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Rome-2019-results-and-final-standings.pdf
  13. 2022:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-Men%C2%B4s-Euros-Final-Report.pdf

Division A

Year1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
1997  ESP  GRE  GBR  ITA  POR
1999  ESP  GBR  GRE  POR  FRA
2001 Unknown
2003  ESP  ENG  FRA  GRE  ITA
2005  ESP  FRA  ENG  GRE  ITA  POR  RUS
2007  ESP  GBR  FRA  GRE  ITA  TUR  GER
2009  FRA  ENG  ESP  GRE  GER  TUR  RUS  ITA  BLR
2011  FRA  ESP  ENG  TUR  RUS  GRE  ITA  GER
2013  ESP  FRA  TUR  GER  RUS  ITA  GRE  ENG
2015  TUR  RUS  ESP  ENG  FRA  GER  ITA  BEL  POL  GRE
2017  RUS  ESP  ENG  FRA  TUR  GER  ITA  BEL  ROU  GEO
2019  ESP  FRA  ENG  TUR  RUS  ITA  GER  BEL  ROU  GRE
2022  FRA  TUR  ENG  GER  ITA  GRE  POL  ROU  ESP  CZE

Division B

  1. 2017:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2017-IBSA-Blind-Football-Division-2-European-Championships.pdf
  2. 2019:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Division-2-Bucharest-March-2019.pdf
  3. 2021:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-Division-2-results-and-final-standings.pdf
Year1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
2017  ROU  GEO  GRE  CZE  ALB  IRL  MDA
2019  ROU  GRE  GEO  BLR
2021  ROU  GRE  POL  ALB

Women's B1

2022: https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-IBSA-Women%C2%B4s-Euros-Final-Standings.pdf

Year1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
2022  GER  ENG

Men's B2/B3

  1. 1997:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Championships-Barcelona-1997.pdf
  2. 1999:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Championships-Belarus-1999-results.pdf
  3. 2009:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-European-Championships-2009-Nantes-results.pdf
  4. 2012:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Football-Championships-2012-results.pdf
  5. 2014:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Championships-2014-Italy-results.pdf
  6. 2016:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Championships-2016-results.pdf
  7. 2018:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Partially-Sighted-Football-European-Championships-Tbilisi-2018-results.pdf


1 Spain 2 Italy 3 Belarus 4 Great Britain 5 Ireland

1 Spain 2 Belarus 3 Great Britain 4 Italy 5 France 6 Russia 7 Greece

BLR UKR ESP FRA IRL ENG ITA TUR

BLR ESP UKR ENG RUS ITA TUR

ESP RUS UKR ENG ITA TUR AUT

UKR FRA GBR TUR ESP

UKR RUS ENG ITA TUR GEO

Euro Challenge Cup

  1. 2014:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Euro-Challenge-Cup-2014-results-and-final-standings.pdf
  2. 2016:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Euro-Challenge-Cup-2016-Results-and-final-standings-.pdf
  3. 2018:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IBSA-Blind-Football-Euro-Challenge-Cup-2018-results-and-final-standings.pdf
  4. 2022:https://blindfootball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/4th-IBSA-Blind-Football-Euro-Challenge-Cup-Stockholm-2022-Final-Report.pdf

See also

References

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