Additional fine-tuning of bar foe regulations for 2018/19 onwards
With UEFA’s bar competitions entering a new three-year-cycle starting subsequent season, several pivotal changes have already been announced as partial of their evolution.
However, after February’s UEFA Executive Committee assembly in Bratislava and a decisions taken by football’s lawmakers, a International Football Association Board (IFAB), on 3 Mar in Zurich, some-more changes have been reliable in propinquity to a new bar foe regulations entrance into outcome for a 2018/19 campaign.
These changes, that will request equally to a UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup, include:
• From a 2018/19 season, a fourth surrogate listed on a compare piece might take partial in knockout matches exclusively during additional time. This will not impact a other 3 substitutions.
• Exceptionally for a UEFA Champions League final, UEFA Europa League final and UEFA Super Cup, 23 players (instead of 18 players for all other matches) might be enclosed on a compare sheet. This will concede 12 substitutes (instead of seven) to lay on a dais in these finals – giving clubs and, in particular, coaches some-more coherence per substitutes, and promote their patrol government for a many critical tie of a season.
• New kick-off times in a UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League:
- UEFA Champions League play-offs, group-stage games, turn of 16 matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final will flog off during 21:00CET. However, on each group-stage matchday, dual of a Tuesday and dual of a Wednesday matches will flog off during 18:55CET. All fixtures on a final matchday will be played simultaneously. Exceptions to this order can be done by a UEFA administration.
- UEFA Europa League matches from a organisation theatre until turn of 16 matches will flog off during 18:55 and 21:00CET. The kick-off times will be motionless in suitability with a draw. In principle, games within a organisation will be played concurrently on a final matchday. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will all flog off during 21:00CET. Exceptions can be done by a UEFA administration.
- The UEFA Super Cup will kick-off during 21:00CET. This already relates to a 2018 UEFA Super Cup that will be played on 15 Aug during Tallinn’s Lilleküla Stadium in Estonia.
• Regarding a registration of players after a organisation theatre of a UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, a bar might register 3 new authorised players but any restrictions. This is in line with a existent regulatory conditions in a opposite domestic leagues, that does not levy restrictions on a eligibility for competitions of players purebred for a new bar during a winter send window.
• As was already a box in a UEFA Champions League, as of a 2018/19 season, teams that have won a UEFA Europa League (or formerly a UEFA Cup) 3 uninterrupted times or a smallest of 5 times might also wear a multiple-winner badge on a shirt sleeve. The usually group entitled to wear this badge subsequent deteriorate would be Sevilla FC, who have won a foe 5 times (2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016).