NHFS Use of Whistle

Don't believe so. The rule book shows this for the goal signal:

I don't think it is required to whistle every time you stop the clock. But I often do it to get the timer's attention.

You do need to stop the clock after a goal.

 

9-1-3, for those who might want the specific rules book reference.

 

I have always been told that a whistle is required for a goal in high school soccer specifically because you’re stopping the clock. This would be different from USSF/IFAB where you don’t stop the clock for a goal (or at all).

When it comes to the diagrams, I know it doesn’t show an official whistling for a foul, but it also doesn’t show an official whistling for a foul and we do.

 

Good point!

I still don't see anything in the rule book about whistling when stopping the clock though. In several places the language "signals when the clock is to be stopped", but I assume that means the "X" signal.

5-3-1:

 

Our association decided to always whistle, even if just a <chirp> on an obvious goal... Too many clock operators don't pay any attention if there's no whistle, and every once in a while a player(s) don't realize there was a goal scored and challenge for the ball being rolled back to midfield.

 

I make the X, then I violently make the X twice while staring at the timekeeper who is in their ivory tower browsing ETSY. Then I'm blowing the Valkeen loudly and multiple times while making the X.

 

The key words are "as necessary." I have found the occasional time when the defenders think, or want to think, that the whistle means there was a foul or offside before the shot and the goal shouldn't count.

 

Referee yells, “Clock!” AR closest to timekeeper yells, “Clock!” Spectators yell, “Clock!”

 

All too often, the clock operators still don’t stop the clock even with a whistle. I know I’m preaching to a really large choir here…..

 

I lost a bet to a friend on this. Not required per the Rules. But around here it is customary. Although, like Law5 said, if the players are hardcore USSF, to them a whistle means 'no goal.' So I just give it a chirp.

 

what do you mean? I have had USSF games where the ball has just barely crossed the line and I’ve blown my whistle and then signaled a good goal.

 

Well, sure. But when the ball is in the back of the net, a whistle in USSF game almost always means the goal doesn’t count.

 

My rule of thumb, when working with new refs in both HS and youth is - if the game needs a whistle, then whistle. Ball goes 3 inches out - whistle. Ball goes 3 feet out - no whistle. You whistle to stop play when it needs to stop. And sometimes to start play up again.

What drives me crazy is when non soccer HS refs are whistling for normal CK or GK (no subs). And they usually argue with me when I tell them it is not needed. They say how do they know they can restart? And I say, what if they started before you whistled? You gonna make them do it over?

 

Presumably, yes, you are going to make them do it over, which is both why you whistle sometimes for restarts (e.g. substitutions) and why you don't whistle for restarts where there is no reason to hold up the restart.