The judges will award the corners instead of free kicks against a goalkeeper trying to waste time holding the ball for more than eight seconds from the start of the 2025/26 onwards campaign.
The Committee of the International Football Federation (IFAB) carried out the world amendment of the law 12.2 on their 139th annual meeting. The previous rule determined that indirect free kicks within the penalty area should be awarded against a goalkeeper who hold the ball for more than six seconds.
However, the law 12.2 did not easily apply the referees in world football for many years, forcing themselves Ifab To change the new rules to reduce the amount of time in a modern game.
Amendment, which comes into force this July and will be used for all FIFA World Cup Club The matches, this season is trials in England and Italian Divisions for Youth, as well as Malta’s best level. Through their use, only four angles were awarded in more than 400 games, emphasizing the “main positive impact” that had to reduce the time of decay among the goals.
“Visually Nursery of five seconds” from the referee will point to the goalkeepers when they need to release the ball, and the clerk raised his hand before gradually collapsing to their side.
This change of rules is likely to be celebrated among supporters who have been tired of the goalkeeper who sometimes took over 20 seconds to release the ball while they look to frustrate their opponents and run for an hour. Liverpool Manager Arne slot is particularly caught counting the second goalkeeper Fulham, Bernd Leno held on the ball during a 2-2 draws with cottages earlier this season.
IFAB has announced other amendments to the law. Each competition now can choose whether or not to introduce a verdict that only the team captain can talk to the judge, which can be carried out in “training higher levels of honesty and mutual respect.”
Another significant amendment means that competitions can now decide to announce a variety of decisions to the audience – something that is allocated to the Carabao Cup semi -finals this season.
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