Extra refs for CL matches

Champions League secures two extra officials

Last updated: 21st July 2010   Subscribe to RSS Feed

Extra refs for CL matches

Extra officials for the Champions League

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Fifa has approved the use of two additional assistant referees for the next two seasons of UEFA Champions League football.

Uefa experimented with two extra officials in the Europa League last season and this has now been expanded to include Europe's premier club competition.

The role of the additional officials will be to help the referee and his assistants make decisions regarding incidents within the penalty areas.

At a previous meeting held in Zurich, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) reviewed the experiment of additional assistant referees and have decided to continue the trials.

The extra officials will be introduced for the start of this season's Champions League and the experiment will last for at least two years.

Meanwhile, Fifa has confirmed that goal-line technology will be on the agenda of the next Annual Business Meeting of the IFAB in October 2010.

Calls for the technology were renewed at this summer's World Cup finals after a number of incidents, one of which was Frank Lampard's shot that crossed the line that was missed by the officials.

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