When football’s lawmakers, the International Football Association Board, meet in Doha on Monday, the usage of five substitutions will be put into the game’s statutes.
Because of the Covid-19 epidemic, the regulation was implemented in May 2020.
It will now be adopted at the discretion of the tournament organizers prior to the 2022-23 season.
Concussion substitutes and semi-automated offside technology are also on the menu for Ifab.
For the 2020-21 season, the Premier League became the first major league to abandon the five-substitution rule and return to a maximum of three substitutes each match.
Despite Ifab’s recommendation that five substitutes be made permanent in the sport in October 2021, some teams thought it offered those with larger squads an unfair edge, and it was not enacted for the 2021-22 season.
Following a referendum in March, Premier League teams decided to allow five substitutes in 2022-23.
According to Ifab, substitutes can be made three times throughout a game, omitting half-time changes, with a sixth change possible if the game goes to extra time.
In terms of concussion substitutions and semi-automated offside equipment, only the Ifab summit in Doha will be a talking topic.
Although the Professional Footballers’ Association has advocated for temporary substitutes to be included in the testing, Ifab authorized a trial in December 2020 that only allowed for permanent concussion substitutions.
Semi-automated offside technology has been tested by Fifa at the Fifa Club World Cup and the Fifa Arab Cup, and it might be used for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.
It operates by collecting up to 29 data points for each participant 50 times per second utilizing ten specialized cameras and many broadcast cameras.