The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has approved proposed trials whereby only the team captain may approach the referee and for sin bins to be tested at a higher level.
As part of the plan, players punished for dissent would be temporarily removed from the match for 10 minutes. The measures aim to improve participant behaviour in football and increase respect for officials. Sin-bins have been trialled at grassroots level since 2019, and the proposals were supported at the IFAB’s Annual Business Meeting (ABM) in London on Tuesday.
“The positive message of the meeting is that ‘yes, we’re going to do something in that direction’,” Luke Brud, IFAB secretary, told BBC Sport.
“Over the next weeks and months we are going to identify which levels are best to test. I’m hoping in the next few months we will have clarity about which competitions will want to trial this as well. “It’s up to them, competition organisers, to decide whether they want to participate in those trials or not.
Plans to introduce 10-minute sin-bins for cynical fouls and dissent have been recommended for trial in professional football.
