The Referees Committee approves the actual playing minutes from the World Cup

2022-12-14
19:43:02

The Referees Committee of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation approved the application of actual playing minutes, similar to what was done in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

The committee affirmed that the application of actual playing minutes in the World Cup matches brought positive results in terms of increasing the number of actual playing minutes, noting that it aims to calculate over time at the end of each half, through a task carried out by the fourth referee, who will announce the stoppage time.

The Referees Committee confirmed that it is seeking, through the application of actual playing minutes, to increase the effective playing time up to 60 minutes instead of the previous number of 50 minutes, in addition to contributing to preparing the players of the national teams for the upcoming events, in addition to preparing the Saudi referees to participate in the matches of the International and Asian Federations.

The Referees Committee instructed the referees to effectively manage the calculation of stoppage time in 6 specific cases from whistle to whistle, which are the goal and its celebration, the penalty kick, injuries, time wasting, objections between players, and video referee reviews.