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[Wikidata Q715772](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715772)", "in_scope": [ "Appointment of a player as captain for an identified football team", "Continuing captaincy, match captaincy and deputy arrangements", "Captain-specific responsibilities and limits of authority", "Identification, availability and transfer of match captaincy", "Evidence of appointment, applicable rules and role performance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Military, maritime, aviation and other sporting senses of captain", "The holder's full biography and general football ability", "Team ownership, governance and coaching authority", "Complete match events and referee decisions", "Player employment contracts, recruitment adverts and general registration records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The designation concerns an association football team, rather than a vessel, military unit or another sport.", "Evidence establishes a captaincy appointment; being influential, experienced or the highest-paid player does not establish the role.", "The role connects a player to a particular team and period; the person and the captaincy remain separately identifiable.", "A continuing team captain and the player serving as captain during a particular match can be recorded separately.", "Captaincy does not itself confer special playing privileges or referee authority. [IFAB Law 3.10](https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-players/#team-captain)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Represented team", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified club, national or other association football team", "why_it_matters": "Captaincy for one team does not establish captaincy for another." }, { "name": "Role holder", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked player identity", "why_it_matters": "Separates the appointment from the person holding it." }, { "name": "Appointment scope", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Continuing team appointment; match appointment; acting appointment; deputy designation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a deputy or continuing captain from automatically being treated as the current match captain." }, { "name": "Effective interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end date-times; match period and clock time where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to resolve who served when, including 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"text": "Which captain-specific eligibility or training requirements are documented for this team or competition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "eligibility-and-competence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the player's ability to communicate with officials and coordinate teammates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "eligibility-and-competence-q02" }, { "text": "Which requirements belong to player registration or employment rather than captaincy?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "eligibility-and-competence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "match-service-and-succession", "name": "Match service and succession", "description": "Track who exercises captaincy during play and how service transfers.", "rationale": "A season-level captain list cannot answer who currently holds match captaincy.", "layers": [ { "id": "on-field-identification", "name": "On-field identification", "description": "Connect the match designation with observable identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-serving-captain", "name": "Identified serving captain", "description": "Record the serving player and armband evidence; IFAB requires an identified captain on the field. [IFAB Law 3.10](https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-players/#team-captain)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which player is recorded and observed as captain at this match time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identified-serving-captain-q01" }, { "text": "Does armband evidence agree with the team sheet and any recorded handover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-serving-captain-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "captaincy-handover", "name": "Captaincy handover", "description": "Preserve changes of holder without conflating role transfer with player substitution.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-transfer", "name": "Effective transfer", "description": "Record the outgoing and incoming captains, transfer time and reason, separately from changes to a continuing team appointment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who assumed captaincy, at what match time, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "effective-transfer-q01" }, { "text": "What handover is needed if the current captain is substituted, sent off or otherwise unavailable?", "kind": "action", "id": "effective-transfer-q02" }, { "text": "Does this change affect only match service or also the continuing appointment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effective-transfer-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "responsibilities-and-authority", "name": "Responsibilities and authority", "description": "Identify the captain's behavioural responsibilities and permitted representation of the team.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish leadership duties from powers that belong to coaches or match officials.", "layers": [ { "id": "team-conduct", "name": "Team conduct", "description": "Record the captain's expected contribution to teammates' behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-conduct-responsibility", "name": "Bounded conduct responsibility", "description": "IFAB assigns the captain some responsibility for team behaviour without granting special privileges; record specific expectations without assuming automatic liability for teammates. [IFAB Law 3.10](https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-players/#team-captain)", "questions": [ { "text": "What conduct-related intervention is expected of the captain in this situation?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-conduct-responsibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which actions remain the responsibility of individual players, the coach or the referee?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-conduct-responsibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "officials-communication", "name": "Officials communication", "description": "Determine how the captain may communicate with match officials.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-communication-protocol", "name": "Applicable communication protocol", "description": "Record whether the competition adopts the optional 'Only the captain' guidelines and consult its operative rules before deriving permissions. [IFAB Law 3.10](https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-players/#team-captain)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which referee communication protocol applies to this competition and season?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-communication-protocol-q01" }, { "text": "Who may approach the referee in this situation, including when the captain is a goalkeeper?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-communication-protocol-q02" }, { "text": "Where does permitted representation end and sanctionable dissent begin under the applicable rules?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-communication-protocol-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "team-mandate-and-review", "name": "Team mandate and review", "description": "Capture locally assigned leadership duties and assess their fulfilment.", "rationale": "Captaincy can include team-specific expectations that match laws alone do not establish.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-representation", "name": "Internal representation", "description": "Identify any mandate to represent players or relay team instructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-team-duties", "name": "Documented team duties", "description": "Record evidenced responsibilities for player liaison, mentoring or public representation without assuming every captain holds them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which duties beyond match captaincy has this team explicitly assigned?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-team-duties-q01" }, { "text": "May the captain speak for teammates, communicate a decision or make that decision themselves?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-team-duties-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "captaincy-review", "name": "Captaincy review", "description": "Support evidence-based review, continuation or termination of the appointment.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-performance-and-continuation", "name": "Role performance and continuation", "description": "Assess fulfilment of documented captaincy duties using contextual evidence and preserve who may change the appointment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed incidents or attributed feedback show fulfilment or failure of captain-specific duties?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "role-performance-and-continuation-q01" }, { "text": "Who may retain, replace or remove the captain, and what process applies?", "kind": "action", "id": "role-performance-and-continuation-q02" }, { "text": "How are leadership observations separated from playing performance and overall team results?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-performance-and-continuation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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"stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a captain sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a captain from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a captain is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a captain is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a captain moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a captain passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a captain between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a captain, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a captain is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a captain.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a captain and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a captain, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a captain and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a captain sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as captain.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does captain require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses captain, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What captain actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define captain, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as captain, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a captain came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a captain and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a captain is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a captain, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a captain, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a captain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }