Baku: Football’s governing body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), is weighing up dramatic changes to the sport’s rules of penalties and VAR intervention before the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada: APA reports. The proposals represent one of the most significant overhauls since VAR’s introduction in 2017, while introducing a new rule to penalties that has never been seen in the history of the game.
According to Azeri-Press News Agency, for VAR expansion, officials could intervene on “fact-based decisions” where clear errors occur, such as wrongly-awarded corners. The technology would also review second yellow cards, which currently fall outside VAR’s scope despite resulting in red cards.