Updates for the season 2024/25

Effective Playing Time Delaying the Restart

9 Sep 2024
Referee yellow card

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, referees will caution(yellow card) players when they are deemed to have delayed the restart.

A player will be cautioned if they are guilty of delaying the restart of play or failing to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a dropped ball, corner kick, free kick or throw-in.

Referees will be empowered by the game to take a more robust approach to dealing with clear/deliberate actions that are impactful in delaying the restart of play, such as interfering with the ball which clearly delays the restart of play or taking excessive time to restart play with a goal kick.

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 – Allowance for time lost
Effective Playing Time – Calculation of Additional Time 
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

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