How many players does a football team have on the field, including the goalkeeper?

The correct answer is C, eleven. A football side takes the field with eleven players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, the only member of the team permitted to handle the ball, and that only within his own penalty area. If a team is reduced to fewer than seven players through dismissals or injuries, the match cannot continue.

Option A, nine, is the size of a baseball side and of a softball team, not of a football team. Option B, ten, is the number of outfield players in football once the goalkeeper is set aside, which makes it the most attractive wrong answer in the set. Option D, twelve, is the number of players in a kabaddi squad on paper and in some other games, but in football a twelfth player on the field is an offence that brings a penalty against the side.