DEVICE STANDARDS

PREFACE
This page details the changes from the Football Association small sided 5 or 7-a-side indoor football rules to Wheelchair Football, played with a standard size 5 football, Electra-Football for powerchairs and the Powerchair Football version, normally (but not restricted to) played on powered wheelchairs.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Small sided rules; The FA rules committee for allowing and approving the adaptations from the 11-a-side game.
Wheelchair Football and Electra-Football; 5-a-side rules adaptations by W G Lupton, pioneer of this game version.
Power Chair Football, Hiroshi Takahashi (Japanese Electric Wheelchair Soccer Association) & James Isaac (formerly of Aspire and Trained by Hiroshi Takahashi) for introducing the game to the UK from Japan and Stewart Evans, Alan Harrison - (Percy Hedley Foundation), James Isaac (of Tottenham Hotspur), Sam Bull - (ASPIRE Wheelchair Football player) and Ricky Stevenson - (Nottinghamshire County Council Sports Development Officer For Disabled People) for adapting the Japanese rules.
All under the guidance of Jeff Davis, FA, National Development Manager (Disability Football).

WFE CONTACT
W G (Bill) Lupton - telephone 01765 608604 (mobile 07787 533830)

OTHER CONTACTS
www.thefa.com
Jeff Davis - telephone 020 7745 4545

www.thewfa.org
James Isaac - telephone 0870 420 5000
Stewart Evans - telephone 0191 266 5491
Ricky Stevenson - telephone 0115 9772884

WHEELCHAIR FOOTBALL, ELECTRA-FOOTBALL and POWERCHAIR FOOTBALL
LAW 4- PLAYERS EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATION

The equipment can be a complete manual, power assisted or powerchair, or an attachment for the above.

Whilst retained within the play device the ball must maintain rolling contact with the pitch surface, as the player moves in any direction.

The ball must be expelled from the device with a force sufficient to effectively propel the ball twenty metres.

The ball mouth must be behind the resilient buffer when the buffer is compressed. For the ball mouth size see drawing TD7519A.

Manual Chairs
The resilient buffer resistance must be adjustable for junior players 25kg (4 stone) or adult players 90kg (14 stone) using wheelchair and ball playing devices weight 30kg (6 stone) with forward speeds of 3kph to 8kph with a 35% safe working load.
Full cover wheel spoke guards must be fitted.

Power Chairs
The resilient buffer resistance must be adjustable for junior players 25kg (4 stone) or adult players 90kg (14 stone) using wheelchair and ball playing devices weight 150kg (24 stone) with forward speeds of 3kph to 8kph with a 35% safe working load.

The ends of the resilient buffer must not project outside the main wheels.

The load imposed by the attachments onto the wheelchair must be minimal and designed to withstand high impact loads. They must not impose any twisting force on the attachment point(s) of the chassis frame.

The footrest area must be large enough for a player with size 12 feet.

Footrests must be high enough to ensure that the player's knees are at 90° or less.

STANDARDS DRAWINGS

Wheelchair Football
Equipment dimensions - TD7519A

Powerchair Football
Equipment dimensions - TD7518A

Wheelchair Football Pitch Marking - TD7520

Powerchair Football Pitch Marking - TD7521

Goal Posts - TD7519

The above listed Standards drawings are available for explanation / inspection at the office of Wheelchair Football Ltd - by appointment during normal working hours.