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Premier League’s four key changes for 2024/25 season including VAR and fixtures

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The Premier League fixture list for the 2024-25 season will be published this week and several rule changes have already been confirmed ahead of August’s big kick-off

The Premier League clubs have already voted on the future of VAR(Getty Images)

Get your calendars out because the Premier League fixture list will be released on Tuesday morning.

And while the excitement is unlikely to build too much until the European Championship reaches its denouement on July 14, some big changes to the world’s biggest domestic league have already been confirmed.




Chief among them is the introduction of new technology to speed up borderline offside decisions, while referees’ chiefs hope some tweaks to the video assistant referee system can help too. Then there is the scrapping of the winter break again and a tweak to when teams must confirm their starting XIs.

Here is everything new you need to know as the 2024-25 season’s first date of note arrives.

Semi-automated offsides

This will be familiar to clubs who have been participating in Europe but will be a welcome addition to the Premier League when it is phased in after one of the autumn international breaks – the confirmed date of its use has not been announced.

The Premier League say it “will provide quicker and consistent placement of the virtual offside line, based on optical player tracking.” But the jury will remain out for anyone who has absorbed VAR’s messiness.

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