FIFA Disciplinary Code

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Article 54

Offensive Behaviour

1. Anyone who insults someone in any way, especially by using offensive gestures or language, will be sanctioned with a match suspension. If the perpetrator is a player, he will be suspended from at least two (2) matches; if he is an official, he will be suspended from at least four (4) matches.

2 If the victim of the attack is FIFA itself or one of its bodies, the duration of the sus- pension will be doubled (+ 100%); the sanction applies at least to all official inter- national matches. A minimum fine of CHF 5,000 shall be pronounced.