The 2024/2025 Premier League season will kickoff with new laws in place to increase the effectiveness of the game.
In association with International Football Association Board (IFAB) guidance to enhance effective playing time, additional time will undergo changes, referees will exercise allowance in each half for all playing time lost.
This will usually extend to, substitutions, assessment and/or removal of injured players, wasting time, disciplinary sanctions, medical stoppages permitted by competition rules, delays relating to VAR checks and goal celebrations.
Calculation of Additional Time
| Incident | 2023/2024 approach | 2024/2025 approach |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Exact time (play stopped to restart) | Added time clock to start after 30 secs |
| Substitution | Exact time (play stopped to restart) | Exact time (play stopped to restart) |
| Injury | Exact time (play stopped to restart) | Exact time (play stopped to restart) |
| Penalty kick | Exact time (award to restart) | Exact time (award to restart) |
| Delaying restart/time wasting (e.g. 'ceremonial' free kicks, goal kicks) | Referee to make allowance based on match events | Referee to make allowance based on match events |
| Red card | Exact time (red card shown to restart) | Exact time (red card shown to restart) |
| VAR check/review delays restart | Exact time | Exact time |
Note: No double counting of time from a VAR Check/Review
* Updated for Season 2024/25
Contents:
VAR
VAR Improvement Plan
Decision-making process
What VAR cannot do
Threshold for VAR intervention
Attacking Possession Phase
Semi-Automated Offside Technology
Participant Behaviour Charter
Context for Change
Core Principles
Regulatory
Updates for Season 2024/25
Effective Playing Time – Delaying the restart
Effective Playing Time – Managing momentum
Handball – Interpretation
Holding
Blocking
Denying a goal or an obvious goal scoring opportunity
Penalty kicks
IFAB Trial
Additional Guidance
Decision-making principles
Offside – Delaying the flag
Offside – Deliberate play
Offside – Interference
Handball – Definition of the hand/arm
Handball – Accidental handball before a goal is scored
Serious foul play
Violent conduct
High foot challenges
Challenges on Goalkeepers
Matchday Protocols
Multiball protocol
Substitutes warm up protocol
Concussion substitutions
Pre-match warm up protocols
Post-match warm down protocols