It is an incredible football revolution that is about to study-and perhaps adopting-the International Football Association Board (IFAB) next November. According to the Times, the institution guarantees the laws of the game in association with the International Football Federation (FIFA) could then suggest three new impactful rules.
The first two touch -ups relate to video assistance to arbitration – or Var – with an expansion of the field of intervention of officials dedicated to the screen. In addition to their current powers-namely the validation of goal actions (excluding games, possible prior faults), expulsions and penalties-Var arbitrators could also intervene to validate or invalidate corners, but also the yellow cards.
This last suggestion falls under the meaning of the capital sanction which stems from a second warning. This even if the said interventions promise to be most delicate when you know the current limits of the Var, and actions far too often interpreted and subject to a great disparity of judgments.
The penalty completely turned upside down
The third evolutionary rule thought by IFAB would be much more revolutionary. The execution of a penalty indeed would now be limited to the only shot of a player towards the opposing goal – without possibility of chain in the event of a postponed ball, neither by the first shooter, nor by one of his teammates. Clearly, the game will be stopped and the ball rendered to the opponent in the event of failure of the penalty shooter.
Subject to the debate in four months, the three suggestions thus issued could be approved in general assembly in March 2026 if they are consensus. To this deadline, these new rules could be officially adopted for entry into force at 1er June 2026. Only ten days before the start of the next World Cup organized in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
