Spanish football at the dawn of a small revolution. According to comments from Javier Tebas reported by the Spanish sports daily Markautomatic offside will be implemented in La Liga and Liga 2 from the start of the 2026-2027 season. Work on setting up the system is “already underway,” said the president of LaLiga.
“It depends now on resolving technical issues, but it will be in place next season and hopefully from day one. » Currently, a semi-automatic offside system is in force in La Liga but also in the Champions League, without this system fully convincing the public.
A chip in the ball and special cameras
The device on which Javier Tebas is betting for the next version would be “a fully automatic offside system”, the great innovation of which would lie in the integration of a chip in the ball. This will make it possible to precisely detect the exact moment of the ball’s departure, and the information will be cross-referenced with the positions of the players, captured by special cameras installed in the stadiums. A system reminiscent of goal line technology, the relevance of which no one now doubts. Will automatic offside follow the same path?
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