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Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: bmb
Date: July 28, 2023, 6:18 am
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HTML https://www.efl.com/news/2023/july/match-officials-adopt-new-approach-for-202324-season/
Match Officials in the EFL will adopt a new approach to time
keeping in the 2023/24 campaign.
In line with the most recent IFAB guidance, the EFL and PGMOL
are committed to ensure a more accurate calculation of
additional time alongside an improvement in the amount of time
the ball is in-play from the start of the new season.
Below is a summary of the key changes relating to additional
time, treatment of players, law changes and participant
behaviour, that will take effect from the first game of the EFL
season on Friday 4 August.
Enhancing ball in-play times
As the game collectively looks to enhance the amount of time the
ball is in play in the forthcoming campaign, the exact time lost
when certain game events occur will now be added. In previous
seasons the policy was to add on a nominal period of time for
certain game events. The events include:
Goals and subsequent celebrations
Substitutions
Injuries and treatment time (if required)
Penalties (from moment of offence to the whistle for the penalty
kick)
Red cards (from moment of offence to when the player leaves the
field)
Alongside a more accurate allowance for time lost during the
game, the EFL will also adopt the multi-ball system, which has
been proven to increase ball in-play time.
Match officials will also be taking a more robust approach to
dealing with clear/deliberate actions that are impactful in
delaying the restart of play, with players cautioned if they are
guilty of:
Delaying the restart of play
Failing to respect the required distance at free-kicks.
Supporters across the game will be familiar with the changes in
relation to the calculation of additional time, with both the
Men’s World Cup in 2022 and Women’s World Cup this summer
adopting a variation of this approach.
Treatment of players
Players who require assessment on the pitch for a potential
injury will now receive treatment off the field of play​,
apart from certain circumstances as laid out in Law 5 of the
Laws of the Game:
A goalkeeper is injured.
A goalkeeper and an outfield player have collided and need
attention.
Players from the same team have collided and need attention.
A severe injury has occurred.
A player is injured as the result of a physical offence for
which the opponent is cautioned or sent off (e.g., reckless or
serious foul challenge), if the assessment/treatment is
completed quickly.
A penalty has been awarded and the injured player will be the
taker.
After the restart of play, a period of time - not less than 30
seconds - will be afforded for the player to be treated and they
will not return to the pitch before this period has
elapsed​. As always, the player’s return to the pitch
requires the referee's permission​ and may be delayed
beyond 30 seconds if the phase of play is in the vicinity of the
player looking to re-enter the pitch.​
In circumstances where a player declines the physio, if a
team-mate clearly delays or refuses to re-start the game that
team-mate will be issued a yellow card​. This will promote
player safety, which is of paramount importance to the match
officials, and act as a deterrent to players who request
attention as a tactic to waste time or break the momentum of the
game.
#Post#: 65868--------------------------------------------------
Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: lincs22
Date: July 28, 2023, 6:23 am
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A message sent out to the Step 2 -6 observers:
Observing colleagues,
Ahead of the big kick off I thought I would provide you all with
a short overview of the areas of technical focus in time for the
new season. The below should come as no surprise to any of you
as we ask you to focus your minds ready for the new season and
for us to keep pace with the growth and evolve of the modern-day
game that our officials work within. We are also in the process
of sharing the below with the clubs, leagues and competitions
from Step 2 – 6 to ensure that everybody is aware.
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Laws of the Game amendments
Whilst largely minor, small and cosmetic in detail please make
sure that you have taken the time to read, digest and fully
understand the IFAB law amendments for the season. These have
been delivered (and are being delivered) to all referees at Step
2 – 6, Step 2 Observers, FA CORE referees. The link can be found
here.
HTML https://www.theifab.com/law-changes/latest/
Physical threshold on foul challenges
Player safety will always remain our number one priority. Whilst
there can be occasions where our actions as referees prevents
misconduct sometimes, we acknowledge that this is not always
possible. We therefore must strive to ensure that our
decision-making accuracy and appropriate issue of sanction to be
of a really high standard.
During the 2022/23 season we saw examples of where our sanctions
were sometimes too severe and equally some occasions where our
disciplinary sanction was not accurate and severe enough. To aid
and assist your learning, understanding and provide clarity of
view we are sharing a number of foul challenge and expected
outcome clips via the FA Refereeing community.
Time delay and time consumption tactics
From the top of the game downwards there is a real drive and
focus on the address of players who commit clear and deliberate
tactics to consume/waste time. Football stakeholders are aligned
in their views in wanting referees to take strong actions
against players where we deduce their actions are clear,
deliberate and impactful on delaying the restart of the game and
wasting time for tactical advantage. Clips and expected outcomes
will be loaded onto the FA Community to aid and develop
understanding.
Participant behaviour
We are at a point in time in the game where everybody is aligned
with their view that it is no longer acceptable to accept the
unacceptable. For far too long we have normalised the poor
behaviour towards match officials from some of the game's
participants. Whilst there is still a strong need for pro-active
communication and preventative management, there is need for
match officials to be stronger generally in their address of
players and coaches who are confronting them in an angry,
aggressive and confrontational manner.
Players and coaches who make a conscious choice to run at match
officials at speed to question, challenge and be critical of
decisions and or performance should be dealt with accordingly.
Clips and expected outcomes will be loaded onto The FA Community
to aid and develop understanding.
Stricter calculation of added time
You will perhaps be aware that there is a strong push from the
top level of the game for match officials to take a more
accurate and stricter calculation of added time. Whilst at step
2 – 6 we are perhaps not anticipating a total replication of
what we will see in the Premier league/Women’s super league and
international competition we must work hard to be aligned with
the ethos and principle that guess work from officials on the
time needed to be added needs to stop. Where possible please be
more accurate with the time added on at this level of the game.
With pro-active player management and the address of time
consumption tactics the need to add additional time should
naturally reduce but we do anticipate a slight increase at least
for a short-term period whilst players and coaches adjust their
behaviour. We will continue to monitor this through the review
of observation/club reports, matchday coaching and development
visits from our professional workforce.
Caution and send off procedure
The old process of taking each caution/send-off procedure as an
opportunity to slow the game unnecessarily is obsolete,
outdated, unhelpful and no longer recommended. The Laws of the
Game provide no prescriptive way of which a referee should
follow when cautioning and sending off players and we therefore
remind everybody to be aware that the emphasis should be on
identification (be clear who is being cautioned), the
disciplinary sanction being issued, and the relevant and
accurate note being taken. Other than in the exceptional need of
where a referee may need to calm the temperate of the game down
– the routine procedure of cautioning and send off of any player
should take a matter of seconds. This does not compromise the
administration of denoting name/number etc which is still
required to be completed before the game is restarted.
The issue of quick and efficient sanction to a player with
minimal communication is often more powerful, sends a stronger
message to other participants as well as defusing the incident
and potentially guarding against the escalation of the situation
and further misconduct developing.
Further clarification regarding observer expectations regarding
the management of the cautioning procedure is being shared on
The FA Observer Community and within the appendix of the Steps
3-6 Match Observer Report Writing Manual.
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Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: lincs22
Date: July 28, 2023, 6:26 am
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On the wording about caution procedures, does it start to allow
the "just taking the number" and re-starting the game?
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Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: Carter
Date: July 28, 2023, 6:53 am
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I'll give it 4 weeks before refs start ignoring it, just like
previous intiatives.
Just have a timekeeper and it will be consistent forevery game
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Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: Arbitre anglais
Date: July 28, 2023, 8:20 am
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All very sensible but, as above, won’t be surprised if it
fizzles out by mid-September. All these clampdowns (dissent,
surrounding referees, waving imaginary cards) soon all get
forgotten.
At lower levels, I wish the FA would also have a real review and
recalibrate what is a minimum standard. Need County FAs to do
the job of enforcing stricter standards around misconduct
towards officials.
I’d also like to see a real expectation about standards of
changing rooms etc. In a country like England, even at local
level, an actual clean, functioning changing room with toilet
facilities shouldn’t be too much to ask all games.
Also at local league levels, even if the rules say a numbered
team sheet needs completing, it isn’t consistently done
properly. It should also have any team officials on it. Never
understand why it can’t just be a standard list of all of a
club’s registered players on which the club just writes numbers
on the day? Makes life so much easier, easier to identify people
and safer for lone officials who at least have a list of all
participants.
#Post#: 65882--------------------------------------------------
Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: Leggy
Date: July 28, 2023, 1:03 pm
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If previous efforts are to be followed, there will be a spike in
cautions, send-offs and (on this occasion) additional time added
followed by outcry and a call to use "common sense", followed by
a gradual reversion to the status quo ante.
#Post#: 65883--------------------------------------------------
Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: Arbitre anglais
Date: July 28, 2023, 2:00 pm
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Ah, yes, ‘common sense’ - ie. just ignore it.
Have always thought these clampdowns need to be enforced
consistently throughout a competition (ie. the whole season, at
least) otherwise the integrity of the results is at stake.
Players suspended at the start of the season and winning goals
in the 9th minute of stoppage time in September are only fair if
teams have the same conditions all season and important games in
February and May are still refereed exactly the same.
Same with high-profile derby games were the laws/clampdowns are
massaged in the name of ‘managing’, but for the games involving
‘lower’ teams, they get ruthlessly enforced as it’s easier.
#Post#: 65884--------------------------------------------------
Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: robbieg
Date: July 28, 2023, 2:07 pm
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The ruling whereby a substituted player must leave by the
nearest touchline that was always going to be strictly enforced
by referees.........well that one went well.
#Post#: 65885--------------------------------------------------
Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: Arbitre anglais
Date: July 28, 2023, 2:33 pm
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--- Quote from: robbieg link ---
>
> The ruling whereby a substituted player must leave by the
nearest touchline that was always going to be strictly enforced
by referees.........well that one went well.
>
--- End Quote ---
And a YC when the player pretends to be deaf and ignores the
ref’s reminder. To be fair, I think that’s English
exceptionalism, as per. In Europe (and definitely the WWC), refs
are more on the ball with that. It’s a good rule.
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Re: Match Officials adopt new approach for 2023/24 season
DIR By: RefGod
Date: July 28, 2023, 5:58 pm
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--- Quote from: robbieg link ---
>
> The ruling whereby a substituted player must leave by the
nearest touchline that was always going to be strictly enforced
by referees.........well that one went well.
>
--- End Quote ---
From the National League up there is the issue of player safety
that is almost always raised during the safety brief.
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