Chicago Fire Rec Soccer Futsal is an authentic small-sided indoor football experience played between two teams of five players. Building off the success of our long-established recreational adult leagues, our Futsal programs are open to teams and players wanting to compete, exercise, and socialize during the indoor season.

Winning team will receive a Mardi Gras-themed team party at one of the top-rated Brazilian restaurants in Chicago.

Futsal is the FIFA-recognized form of small-sided indoor football (the word is a contraction of the Spanish 'fútbol sala'). It is played between two teams who each have five players on the pitch at any one time, with rolling substitutes and a smaller ball than soccer that is harder and less bouncy.

• Teams have squads of 12, of which five (including one goalkeeper) can be on the pitch at any one time, with rolling and unlimited substitutions.
• Each game lasts 20 minutes, with a clock that runs the entire time; a win awards your team +3 points on the standings table a tie awards +1 point and a loss is 0 points.
• Free-kicks and penalties generally work as in football. However, once a team have committed five fouls in one half, for every subsequent foul their opponents get a free shot at goal from the second penalty mark, ten meters out (often known as a double penalty). If the foul is closer to goal, the shot can be taken from where the infringement occurred. At half-time foul counts are wiped clean, but they are not erased prior to either extra-time period, where second-half fouls still count.
• There will be one match officials: as well as roaming CFRS staff members to monitor the game and ensure the safety of all players. However, please do note that these will be one man referee crews who will occasionally make a call that you don’t agree with, please handle your reaction and comments accordingly and with grace.
• Players are dismissed for two yellow cards or a direct red and take no further part in the action. Following a sending-off, the penalized team play one man short for two minutes, unless they concede during that time in which case they return to full strength immediately. The player that was sent off, however, cannot be used again.
• Players can go into the penalty area and goalkeepers are allowed out, but the latter cannot touch the ball again once they have cleared it (via as many touches as they like) until it has gone into the opposition half or been touched by an opponent. Goal clearances must be thrown, not kicked.
• If the ball goes over the touchline or hits the ceiling, play is resumed with a kick-in. Goals cannot be scored direct from a kick-in. If the ball crosses the byline, it results in either a corner or a thrown goal clearance by the keeper.
• For kick-ins, free-kicks, goal clearances and corner kicks, the player in possession of the ball has four seconds to restart play which the referee will count with their fingers in the air. If play isn't restarted within four seconds an indirect free kick will be awarded to the opposing team. The goalkeeper is not allowed to control the ball for more than four seconds in their own half.
• All other CFRS rules and policies are observed.

For questions, please contact cfrs@chicagofirefc.com