Overview
- Proposals would let video reviews address expulsions from a second yellow, wrongly awarded corners, and cases where the referee booked the wrong player, with IFAB reiterating the core limit on interventions to goals, penalties, direct reds, and mistaken identity.
- New clock-management measures include maximum times for throw-ins and goal kicks, a 10-second limit for substituted players to leave, and a defined period off the field after on-pitch medical treatment, building on positive feedback to the eight-second goalkeeper rule.
- Trials of the so-called Wenger Law will continue, defining offside only when an attacker’s whole body is beyond the last defender, with the Canadian top flight slated as a testbed from April 2026.
- IFAB highlighted continued rollout of semi-automated offside technology and the lower-resource Football Video Support system for competitions without full VAR infrastructure.
- Disciplinary guidance backed limits on who addresses the referee in hot moments to the team captain and clarified that an accidental touch of the plant foot before a converted penalty does not invalidate the goal.