Proposals to ban substitutions during stoppage time failed to gain support at a meeting of football law makers on Tuesday.
The International Football Association Board’s football and technical advisory panel, chaired by chief executive of the Scottish Football Association Ian Maxwell, discussed feedback over the main changes in the laws of the game for 2018/19.
A statement from IFAB said a number of proposals were recommended for consideration at the forthcoming annual business meeting, the concept of “banning substitutions in additional time did not receive any support from the IFAB, FIFA or the panel members.”
However, there was general backing for the ongoing experiments with substitutes having to leave the field of play at the nearest touchline as well as a “constructive discussion” on improving the handball law to “clarify what constitutes handball”, so as to help more consistency in decisions.
The proposals over yellow and red cards for team officials, goal-kicks and free-kicks from the defending team to be allowed to be taken inside the penalty area were other topics covered positively.
Areas in how behaviour and respect can be improved were also examined, as was how to increase actual playing time.
The Video Assistant Referee system was the final item on the agenda at Tuesday’s meeting, which saw a presentation of key results from experiments and current implementations around the world. The IFAB added it “supports competitions intending to use VARs” following a largely successful 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The organisation’s ABM is scheduled for November 22 in Glasgow, which will hold further discussions over the way forward.
