How Many Players Can We Have on the Field by Gender?
  
Sometimes we seem to have confusion regarding the number of men and women that can be on the field at any given time during an ASL coed game. In order to reduce that confusion, we are providing a handy little table below that tells you how many women can be on the field at any given time and how many men can be on the field at any given time. Each of these tables assumes that no one has been sent off for a red card, in which case your team plays short by the gender of the person sent off. If the person red carded is a substitute who was not in the game, it is irrelevant as to how the players on the field are counted, because nothing has changed on the field. While we attempt to make this as easy as humanly possible, we may yet have problems, so please show this to the referee if there is any dispute.
 
If your team has more than 6 men, meaning one is playing goalkeeper, the remaining men are allowed to stand on the sideline and act as “substitutes.” The game should not be canceled because your team has too many men. If your team has more than 6 women (assuming it has 5 men), the remaining women are also allowed to function in the role of “substitute.” Again, the game should not be canceled because you have too many women.
 
Please note that the goalkeeper may be either male or female. Excluding the goalkeeper, you may have a maximum of 5 men on the field. Excluding the goalkeeper, you may up to ten women on the field. FIFA Laws mandate that you may have no more than 11 players on the field. 
 
To further clarify for those who insist on an absurd interpretation of this rule that is completely wrong, a team that only has 2 women players is not required to have only 2 men players. That team can have 5 men players, plus a male goalkeeper, to equal 8 players total. This means the referee should not abandon the game because the team has two women players until the referee actually counts the men players.
  
   If Your Team                  Then Your Team             Resulting In This
  Has This Many                 Can Have This              Many Total Players
  Women Players            Many Men Players             On the Field
      1 woman                 5 men + goalkeeper                      7
      2 women                 5 men + goalkeeper                      8
      3 women                 5 men + goalkeeper                      9
      4 women                 5 men + goalkeeper                    10
      5 women                 5 men + goalkeeper                    11
                       
  If Your Team                  Then Your Team                       Resulting In This
 Has This Many                 Can Have This                        Many Total Players
   Men Players               Many Women Players                  On the Field
       1 man                10 women, including goalkeeper            11
       2 men                  9 women, including goalkeeper            11
       3 men                  8 women, including goalkeeper            11
       4 men                  7 women, including goalkeeper            11
       5 men                  6 women, including goalkeeper            11

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