VAR in Champs League next year

Monaco – Uefa plans to use video assistant referees (VARs) in the Champions League from next season, but is unlikely to use the technology this term, even in the final, its president Aleksander Ceferin said yesterday.

European football’s governing body has so far resisted implementation of the VAR system, which allows key incidents to be reviewed with the use of video replays and was used at the World Cup in Russia.

Ceferin said the intention was that VAR would be introduced next season from the final qualifying round onwards.