What VAR cannot do
-Achieve decision-making perfection
-Stop the debates about subjective calls
-Check second yellow cards
-Check restarts
-Recommend a review without checking the attacking possession phase (APP)
-Provide access to the live referee/VAR audio
Threshold for intervention
-The ‘Referee’s Call’ will stand, unless, in the opinion of the VAR, based on the evidence readily available, that call is a ‘clear and
obvious error’
-Good officiating starts on the pitch – the referee must make an on-field decision ‘Referee’s Call’
-Clear evidence required to meet higher threshold for subjective intervention, taking into account what football expects
-VAR checks the readily available footage and applies the ‘clear and obvious’ test – technology will provide evidence for factual decisions
-The on-field Referee will make the final decision
Contents:
VAR
VAR Improvement Plan
Decision-making process
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 – 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
