A normal squad has eleven field players including the goalkeeper. During a game, the team may nominate up to seven substitutes (though only three may be used during the game), bringing the total to eighteen. The team may have more than this, including reserve players, practice squads, trainers, coaches, doctors, public relations officers, and so on, each of which are part of the team even if they aren't actual players.
There is no limit imposed by any rule of soccer, except that in regular adult FIFA-sanctioned or affiliated matches, a team must field at least seven players in order to play, no more than eighteen players are eligible to compete in any given match, and no more than fourteen different players may actually take the field during the match.
Additionally, small-sided youth soccer, indoor soccer, and numerous other variations of the game produce their own total numbers of team members. For example, U6 small-sided soccer is often played 3-on-3 with no goalkeepers on a field roughly the size of an average living room, and usually have one coach and no more than three nominated substitutes (because youth organizations often insist that each player get at least 50% playing time).
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Soccer teams can only play eleven players on the picth but can have five players as substitutes with a maximum of three subs in one match. But a team could have as many players as they wish but can only choose a squad of 16 for a match.
you can have as much people as you want on a soccer team but on the field you can only have 11.
OH HAI DER :D i think it's cool that you can just kind of change something, but i don't like to post faulty info. it's true that 11 soccer players are on the field