{"id":8650,"date":"2026-06-13T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:55:11","slug":"premier-league-confirms-rule-changes-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8650","title":{"rendered":"Premier League confirms rule changes for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The following measures will be implemented in line with amendments to the Laws of the Game by the International Football Association Board earlier this year.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Injuries<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Players who receive on-field injury treatment\/assessment will be required to leave for at least one minute (an increase from the 30 seconds previously used by the Premier League).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Restarts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A \u201cfive-second\u201d countdown and restart reversal for clearly delaying throw-ins and goal-kicks (if the time limit is exceeded, the throw-in is awarded to the opposing team; for a goal-kick the opposing team are awarded a corner).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Substitutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A \u201c10-second\u201d time limit for players to leave the field when substituted. If the time limit is exceeded, the substitute cannot enter until the first stoppage after one minute has elapsed.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>OUR<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A VAR review for when second yellow cards are awarded to a player resulting in a red card (only for when players are awarded a second yellow card, rather than a potential second yellow card).<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League does not intend to adopt the competition optional laws, including the increase in scope of VAR to review incorrectly awarded corners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following measures will be implemented in line with amendments to the Laws of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}