VAR to be used in subsequent season’s Champions League

Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will be used for a 2019/20 UEFA Champions League, as good as for a series of other UEFA competitions.

The preference was taken during a assembly of a UEFA Executive Committee during a House of European Football in Nyon on Thursday morning.

VAR will be introduced from a play-off theatre of subsequent season’s UEFA Champions League. It will be used additionally for a 2019 UEFA Super Cup in Istanbul, as good as for UEFA EURO 2020.

UEFA subsequently skeleton to deliver it in a UEFA Europa League from a organisation theatre of a 2020/21 edition, with a complement also set to be in place for a 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals.

UEFA President Aleksander ÄŒeferin said: “We are assured that introducing Video Assistant Referees in Aug 2019 will give us adequate time to put in place a strong complement and to sight compare officials to safeguard an fit and successful doing of VAR in a UEFA Champions League, a world’s flagship bar competition.”

Various other decisions were done by a UEFA Executive Committee concerning UEFA competitions.