Tag Archives: Video Assistant Referee

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has taken root in football and its implementation is spreading throughout the world, with the AFC continuing to develop and train its elite referees with the latest AFC Video Assistant Referees Course that came to an end in the Malaysian capital on Saturday, April 20. …

UEFA is continuing its intensive training courses for video assistant referees (VAR). Another group of European match officials has undertaken three days of work in Nyon – with UEFA aiming to have more VARs ready for assignments by this summer. The course, the latest in a series that began last …

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be introduced in Bundesliga 2 for the 2019-20 season. Officials of the Bundesliga 2 clubs reached this decision at a meeting in Frankfurt this Thursday. The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga will therefore now instigate all necessary measures to ensure that – after statuary implementation …

When legendary Italian match official Pierluigi Collina speaks about refereeing, everyone has to listen. Collina was in capital of the United Arab Emirates during the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 group stage as part of the preparation for the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system from the competition’s …

With the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system making its debut from the quarterfinals of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup – UAE, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) yesterday held a media briefing outlining the rationale, principles and reviewable decisions of the VAR. The VAR system will be implemented in the final …

The UEFA Executive Committee has decided today in Dublin to use Video Assistant Referees (VAR) in the UEFA Champions League as from the Round of 16 in February 2019 following successful technological testing and the training of referees over the last few months. In addition, the committee decided to also …

English Premier League clubs have agreed in principle to introduce Video Assistant Referees (VAR) to the competition in the 2019/20 season. At a shareholders’ meeting Friday, November 16, the clubs were provided with an update on the non-live VAR trials being undertaken by the League and Professional Game Match Officials …

The decisive matches in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup – UAE are to be enhanced by the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system after the AFC Referees Committee approved its use from the quarterfinals onwards. Asia already boasts some of the world’s leading referees and now they will …

UEFA and European referees are hard at work preparing for the introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) in UEFA competitions from next season. At a four-day course in Madrid, a group of referees with limited experience of VAR in their own countries took part in intensive theoretical and practical sessions, …