The most recent edition of the Official Gateball Rules and Guide for Referees 2025 published by the World Gateball Union, came into effect from 1 April 2025. The Guide for Referees published with the Rules, describes other topics of importance when carrying out the role of an official including hand signals, the role and positioning for referees and other officials. 

A Q & A Guide is also available for these rules. This document is  a supplement to the official rules. It is presented in a question and answer format and covers issues that could occur in a game but cannot be fully covered by the Rules.

Rules available from the WGU do not cover all aspects of officiating in Australia. The Gateball Australia Management Committee (GAMC) makes decisions on these matters and these are published in the Gateball Australia Gateball Tournament Regulations.  Referees and players should be aware of and implement these processes.

Bruce McAlister has provided the “2025 List of Measures to be Implemented against Fouls”, which can be obtained in landscape or portrait view.

A summary of the rules (2015 edition) was produced by the European Gateball League with the assistance of Bruce McAlister and may still be of some value to new players, being mindful of the rule changes since 2015 (2019 and 2025 rule changes).

In the past, a Q&A forum recorded questions from players that were answered by other players. Click here for the Q&A forum.