| Developers: | FIFA - Federation Internationale de Football Association |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | November 2021 |
| Branches: | Entertainment, leisure, sports |
2021: FIFA introduced software and hardware for determining offsides in football
On November 29, 2021, it became known that FIFA is beginning to use technology that determines the position outside the game in football. The system will be used at the 2021 Arab Championship, which started on November 30 in Qatar, where the World Cup will be held in 2022.
The technology is based on limb tracking and provides video to the assistant referee (VAR) with information before the judge on the field makes a final decision.
FIFA calls this system "semi-automatic offside technology." The technology involves installing a special camera on the roof of the stadium, which will collect data on the position of the limbs of players, data from the video will be sent to the operating room so that the offside line can be calculated in real time. It is reported that from 10 to 12 cameras collect up to 29 data points for each player 50 times per second.
The system could catch offside faster than the current VAR setting, which helped games go more smoothly. The system was previously tested in England, Spain and Germany. In 2020, a wider test was planned, but it was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Innovation will be tested at the 2021 Arab Championship. The head of the FIFA global football development department, Arsene Wenger, expressed the hope that the organization would be ready to introduce this technology at the World Cup in 2022 in Qatar.
 | Technology is very important and useful both in pre-match training and in the decision-making process during matches, "said football referee Pierluigi Collina. - In the case of offside, the decision is made after analyzing not only the position of the players, but also their participation in the movement. |  |
According to him, technology - today or tomorrow - can draw a line, but the assessment of interference in the game remains in the hands of the judge.[1]
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