The International FA Board held a meeting this weekend in Northern Ireland and decided on some important matters in football.
After hearing about the experiment under UEFA U-19 last October/November with additional assistants behind the goals, the IFAB decided to try this in a professional league. The league in which this is to be tested hasn’t yet been decided, but the Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 have previously shown interest in implementing this system.
The board also altered some of the text regarding law 11, trying to clarify the interpretation of the situations where a defending player leaves the field to play an attacking player in an offside position. The new wording is as follows:
“Any defending player leaving the field of play for any reason without the referee’s permission shall be considered to be on his goal line or touchline for the purposes of offside until the next stoppage of play.”
IFAB also discarded the suggestion of using an equivalent punishment as the sinbin is in Rugby. You can read about all the changes in FIFA’s own article.
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