VAR WILL CONTINUE TO BE USED IN ENGLAND
Premier League approves six changes to ensure continuity of VAR
Premier League clubs have voted to continue using VAR in the 2024/25 season, but with important changes to ensure the technology offers greater benefits to the competition
Finally, there will be drama this summer in England with the VAR. It was in the air, but the 20 clubs have approved this Thursday his continuity under the promise that it will suffer significant changes that allow the optimisation of the technology and his use hit so that no 'prejudice' to the show. For this, will implement six significant changes from the next season.
In a communiqué, the Premier League has indicated that "the clubs of the Premier League voted today in favour to follow using the VAR in the Premier League", explaining that, although the technology opens the way so that they take decisions more precise, is worth it that they carry out changes that allow his mejoría for the profit of the game and of the enjoy of the show for the fans.
Between the clear-cut changes from the 2024/2025, has agreed that mantedrá a "high threshold" for the intervention of the VAR, with the aim that it keep a higher consistency and that the flow of the game was not interrupted with so much frequency. In this same line, the aim is to reduce the delays in the game, with "the introduction of the technology of offside semi-automatic (SAOT) and the maintenance of the high threshold for the intervention of the VAR".
The most significant changes in England with the VAR
In the third point, is to improve the experience of the fans "through a reduction of the delays, announcements in the stadium of the referees after a change of back decision to the VAR and, when it was possible, an offer improved of repetitions in big screen to include all the interventions of the VAR", whereas they have proposed to work with PGMOL in the implementation of a solider training in matter of VAR so that see produce a mejoría in the "coherence, included an emphasis in the speed of the process, preserving at the same time the precision".
Likewise, from the Premier League have decided to increase the transparency and communications from the VAR. For 'improve' the experience, will do a campaign of communication of the VAR "for fans and parts interested, that will look for to clear even more the paper of the VAR in the game to the participants and followers". On the other hand, they have reaffirmed that the technology of offside semi-automatic will enter in the autumn of 2024.
