New Rules Trivia Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Football's Laws of the Game
How well do you actually know the rules behind every Copa Libertadores match? CopaLibertadoresQuiz just launched Rules Trivia, a new 25-question mode built around the Laws of the Game — and most questions come with a visual A/B/C diagram instead of plain text.
What the Quiz Covers
The 25 questions span five areas: pitch markings (field size, the center circle, the penalty and goal areas, the penalty spot, the corner arc and the free-kick wall distance), the goal and ball (regulation dimensions, legal goalpost shapes, ball size, the corner flag), match time (half length, half-time, extra time, substitutions), officiating (yellow and red cards, VAR, the match officials on the pitch, and a genuine offside call to read from a diagram), and players & kit (the minimum number of players needed to continue a match, goalkeeper shirt colors, shin guards, and the captain's armband).
What's Universal, and What CONMEBOL Decides
Most Laws of the Game are set by IFAB and apply identically in every FIFA-affiliated competition — pitch and goal dimensions, ball size, half length, and the yellow-and-red card system are the same in the Copa Libertadores as anywhere else. But a few rules are left to each competition organizer's own discretion, not fixed by IFAB: VAR implementation, the minimum number of players a team needs to continue a match, and the number of permitted substitutions. For those, this quiz checked CONMEBOL's own current Copa Libertadores 2026 regulations directly, rather than assuming they matched a World Cup or Champions League figure.
One real result of that check: Copa Libertadores substitutions currently follow the same 5-substitutions-in-3-windows rule used in most major tournaments (with a 6th allowed in the Final's own extra time specifically), and the minimum of 7 players to continue a match matches CONMEBOL's own disciplinary regulations.
Why the Regulation Pitch Size Isn't Always the Real Size
The pitch-dimensions question has a catch worth knowing before you answer: the Laws of the Game set 105×68m as the regulation size, but a number of South America's most historic stadiums — many built decades before that standard became strict current practice — don't quite match it exactly. It's a detail that doesn't come up in a World Cup or Champions League rules quiz, where venues are newer or purpose-built, but it's real here.