What is VAR? Soccer's video review system explained for World Cup

VAR has changed how soccer is officiated and it has new powers at the 2026 World Cup. Here is how the video review system ...
The New York Times

Trials of VAR alternative with ‘coach’s challenge’ extended by IFAB

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 ...

VAR is changing more than football, it is changing how we celebrate

The article posits that the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in football, with its tendency to overturn decisions, could ...
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VAR crisis? Football launches major rethink of controversial video system

Football’s use of video technology is once again under scrutiny as the sport’s governing bodies prepare to examine how VAR should function in the future. According to Philip Buckingham’s reporting in ...
The New York Times

Premier League clubs to vote on scrapping VAR from next season

Premier League clubs are set to hold a vote at their annual general meeting next month on a proposal to abolish the video assistant referee (VAR) system from the start of next season. VAR has been ...
Hackaday

VAR Is Ruining Football, And Tech Is Ruining Sport

The symbol of all that is wrong with football. Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner ...
Yahoo! Sports

EFL clubs make decision over VAR challenge system in Championship next season

English Football League Championship clubs have rejected the opportunity to implement a video assistant referee (VAR) challenge system for the upcoming season. The proposed Football Video Support (FVS ...
Yahoo! Sports

Spain’s Liga F to be first league to introduce ‘cost-effective’ alternative to VAR

Spain’s Liga F is set to be the first senior professional league to introduce Football Video Support (FVS), a “cost-effective” alternative to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system. The Spanish ...
NBC Los Angeles

Simplified version of VAR, FVS, emerging at U20 World Cup soccer tournament

FIFA is employing an alternative review system that allows coaches to appeal two referee’s decisions per match at the Under-20 soccer World Cup in Chile The football video support (FVS) is a ...
AOL

EFL clubs reject chance to use VAR challenge system in Championship next season

English Football League clubs have rejected the chance to use a video assistant referee challenge system in the Championship next season. A demonstration of Football Video Support – a version of VAR ...
World Soccer Talk

Italian Referee Association open to introducing VAR challenge

Italian refereeing has been under intense scrutiny following a weekend of contentious decisions in Serie A. Gianluca Rocchi, the referee designator for the league, expressed his dissatisfaction with ...