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FIFA and The International Football Association Board (IFAB) have announced significant updates to football’s Laws of the Game for the 2025/26 season, including adjustments to goalkeeper time ...
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has published rule changes that will come into effect from July 1, including a new rule that will prevent goalkeepers from time-wasting.
Who invented football and when? Where was 'The Beautiful Game' of soccer born? GOAL takes a look at the history and origins of the sport.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the games law-making body, approved a two-year trial period allowing technology to be used in four questionable cases: to determine if a goal ...
The move comes after the cameras were approved for use on a trial basis by the International Football Association Board to "identify possible future use and develop quality and safety standards." ...
Let's discuss what this rule entails. Previously, if a goalkeeper held the ball for too long, they were supposed to be penalized with an indirect free kick from within the penalty area; however, this ...
The International Football Association Board, Oakey says, should simplify the general laws, and then have a later section dealing with elite football. Players themselves have scant knowledge of ...
While there is no direct reference to the specific act of standing on the ball being a cautionable offence in the International Football Association Board (IFAB) Laws of the Game, the body lays ...
Now, at a meeting in Edinburgh next month, the International Football Association Board will decide whether to introduce it across the globe. FIFA president Sepp Blatter and general secretary ...