Context for change
-Shared responsibility across all participants and stakeholders to protect and promote positive image
of the game
-‘Charter’ to promote positive behaviour, deliver a long-term culture change and proportionately deal with unacceptable behaviour
-Revised FA regulatory powers
-Empower Match Officials to take appropriate disciplinary action
Core principles
-Respect - in your every action and interaction
-Protect - your reputation, the reputation of your role and the reputation of the game
-Match Officials - empowered to take a robust approach
-Fairness - promote positively through your contribution to the game
-Captains - take responsibility for the behaviour of teammates
-Scholars - mandatory Refereeing courses to improve players' education and insight into officiating
Participant behaviour charter
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
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
