When does a team reach the team foul penalty?
Rule- England
- Basketball England
- FIBA rules
- FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2026
- All ages
- 2026/27
- Referees
Under FIBA Article 42, a team is in the team foul penalty once it has committed 4 team fouls in a quarter.
- Team fouls are personal, technical, disruptive, flagrant or disqualifying fouls committed by a player. (A category 1 technical charged to the head coach for bench behaviour does not count as a team foul.)
- Fouls in an interval count towards the next quarter or overtime. Fouls in overtime count as 4th-quarter fouls.
Once in the penalty: every further personal foul by that team on a player not in the act of shooting is penalised with 2 free throws for the fouled player instead of a throw-in.
Exception: a personal foul by a player of the team in control of the ball (or entitled to it) is still penalised with a throw-in to the opponents.
Added 21 Oct 2026