SUBSTITUTES AND TECHNICAL STAFF

• Substitutes and technical staff must adhere to 2 metres social distancing. The confines of the technical area should be extended to facilitate social distancing requirements

• Substitutes are allowed to leave the technical area to warm up. The referee determines exactly where they may warm up and how many substitutes are allowed to warm up simultaneously

• Due to social distancing requirements substitutes may warm up behind their own goal

• Substitutes must adhere to 2 metres social distancing during warm-ups

• Match officials should check substitutes equipment prior to the game and practice social distancing guidelines when a substitution is being made

• Where leagues have sanctioned the use of 5 substitutes in line with the IFAB’s temporary law change the following guidelines apply. Each team will be permitted to use a maximum of five substitutes. Each team will have a maximum of three opportunities to make substitutions during the game. Substitutions may also be made at half-time. This does not count as one of the three opportunities for each team. If both teams make a substitution at the same time, this will count as one of the three opportunities for each team. Unused substitutions and opportunities to make substitutions are carried forward into extra-time Where competition rules allow an additional substitution in extra time, teams will each have one additional substitution opportunity Substitutions may also be made before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time