FOOTBALL: THE BALL

Law 2, three codes of the game, five sizes and three FIFA quality marks — what a ball must survive

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: sport · everyone · reference · gym

Sources: IFAB Law 2 · the Futsal Laws of the Game · the FIFA Quality Programme for Footballs testing manual · FIFA, Youth Football Specification Recommendations — guidance, not requirement.

A BALL MAY END THE MATCH HEAVIER THAN THE LAW ALLOWS

Law 2 sets the mass at 410 to 450 grams — and adds three words everyone reads past: «at the start of the match». After that the ball plays in the rain, and FIFA’s own testing manual explicitly permits it to take on up to a tenth of its weight in water.

So a ball that walked out at 445 grams comes back to the dressing room at nearly 490 — forty grams above the window it was licensed in. No law is broken, because the weighing was agreed to happen before the whistle.

On the sheet

Sources: IFAB Law 2 · the Futsal Laws of the Game · the FIFA Quality Programme for Footballs testing manual · FIFA, Youth Football Specification Recommendations — guidance, not requirement.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 11 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

FOOTBALL: THE BALL

A BALL MAY END THE MATCH HEAVIER THAN THE LAW ALLOWS

On the sheet

Printing

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