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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAtletico Ottawa’s Ballou Tabla (13) raises the North Star Cup following Atletico Ottawa\u2019s victory over Cavalry FC in extra time during the Canadian Premier League finals soccer action in Ottawa, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby<\/p>\n
The league says in a statement that the trial aims to restore a greater attacking advantage and boost the flow of matches by introducing a \u201cclearer visual threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CPL is the first professional league to use the alternate offside rule on a trial basis and is working closely with FIFA on the project.<\/p>\n
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, now FIFA\u2019s head of global football development, proposed the rule to the International Football Association Board in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is about positioning the Canadian Premier League at the forefront of innovation and contributing meaningfully to the global evolution of the game,\u201d CPL commissioner James Johnson said in a release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy working closely with FIFA and IFAB, we are proud to play a role in shaping the future of football while continuing to build a competition that reflects our ambition here in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The league also announced Tuesday that it is introducing \u201cFootball Video Support\u201d this season, giving officials the ability to review \u201ckey incidents\u201d using broadcast footage.<\/p>\n
Each team will be limited to two video review requests per match, and all goals will be checked for \u201cclear and obvious\u201d offences that may have been committed by the attacking team.<\/p>\n
The FVS system differs from the video assistant referee technology used in many leagues, including Major League Soccer, in that FVS, does not have dedicated video match officials and reviews are initiated by the team\u2019s head coaches.<\/p>\n
The CPL\u2019s eighth season begins Saturday with Forge FC hosting reigning champions Atletico Ottawa in Hamilton.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Canadian Premier League is set to trial a new offside rule when its season kicks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-572705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}