Trials of Football Video Support (FVS), a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) alternative which sees managers able to make two ‘coach’s challenges’ in a game, have been expanded by the International Football Association Board (IFAB).
IFAB announced the decision on Monday, following its annual business meeting in London.
FVS is billed as a “cost-effective alternative to VAR” and was trialled at the Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup in May and the Women’s Under-20 World Cup in September.
Similarly to VAR, the FVS system is designed to be used “in the event of a possible clear and obvious error or serious missed incident” — a goal/no goal, straight red card, penalty/no penalty or case of mistaken identity, according to a FIFA press release from May. However, unlike VAR, those decisions are not automatically checked as there is no video match official, hence the coaches making a review request to the on-field referee.
In the FVS trial, only head coaches are able to request a referee review an incident and they are allowed to do this twice per game, although they retain a review if the original decision is overturned (i.e., the review request is successful).
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