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Semi-Automated Offside Technology Has Been Approved For 2022 World Cup

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Updated 12:02 1 Jul 2022 GMT+1Published 11:19 1 Jul 2022 GMT+1

Semi-Automated Offside Technology Has Been Approved For 2022 World Cup

The new offside technology uses artificial intelligence and has been approved for the World Cup in Qatar.

Josh Lawless

Josh Lawless

Semi-automated offside technology has been approved by FIFA for the 2022 World Cup later this year.

When it comes to VAR for the showpiece in Qatar, the offside lines we have seen will be scrapped in favour of a system which uses artificial intelligence.

As per ESPN, The idea is that this technology will reduce the amount of time it takes to get the tightest of offside calls right. At the moment 70 seconds is the average time and it's hoped that this will drop right down to 25 seconds.

A 3D animation of the offside situation will be shown on the big screen as well as on the TV coverage for fans watching at home.

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Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, now working as FIFA's chief of global football development, has been a great advocate for the technology.


12 cameras placed under the roo the stadium will track 29 body parts of every individual player, while a sensor will be placed in the Adidas World Cup ball and record data 500 times per second.

The technology will then notify the officials. Eight people will be in the VAR room each game in Qatar for the tournament, where England start their campaign against Iran on 21 November.

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Image: APO Group
Image: APO Group

Live trials took place in February at the Club World Cup, a tournament Chelsea participated in after winning the Champions League.

They were deemed to have been a successful and Al-Jazira striker Alameri Zayed made history in become the first player to have a goal chalked off through semi-automated technology.

Image: Alamy
Image: Alamy

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It's said that the Premier League could introduce it in the 2023/24 season should all go well in the World Cup.

"This is not ‘robot refs’ as some people have called it because the officials still take the final decision," FIFA's head of referees Pierluigi Collina said.

“It is semi-automated offside technology - SAOT - and means faster and more accurate decisions, to a matter of millimetres.

"Then the animations will be automatically generated, with the body parts that are offside - or onside - clearly shown on giant screens or on TV once the decision has been validated by the VAR officials.

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“Of course decisions about interference by offside players will still be taken by the officials. That does not change.

“But the objective was to have a system like Goal Line Technology, which has been praised by everybody and the tests mean we can implement it at the World Cup.”

Featured Image Credit: Image: FIFA & Bleacher Report

Topics: Football World Cup

Josh Lawless
Josh Lawless

Josh is a sports journalist who specialises in football and WWE. He has been published by Curzon Ashton FC, Late Tackle, Manchester City FC, The Mirror, Read Man City and Manchester Evening News. He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has covered two WrestleMania events for SPORTbible.

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