{"id":421244,"date":"2026-04-28T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421244\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:01:10","slug":"fifa-to-change-yellow-card-suspension-rules-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421244\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA to change yellow card suspension rules at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA is set to change the yellow card suspension rules at this summer&#8217;s World Cup, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The world governing body is expected to introduce a second amnesty point, meaning that yellow cards will be wiped after both the group stage and the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>This will reduce the risk of players missing big knockout games at the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>It is felt the current system \u2013 whereby two bookings up to and including the quarter-finals result in a ban \u2013 is unfair in the expanded 48-team format, which features an extra round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"ZAfLC3z2ZkY\">\n<p>The matter is set to be discussed at a meeting of the FIFA Council in Vancouver on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Atl\u00e9tico Madrid v Arsenal in the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA is set to change the yellow card suspension rules at this summer&#8217;s World Cup, it has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-421244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}