The 2026-27 season will feature an unprecedented number of new laws, mostly designed to tackle tempo disruption and make the game quicker.<\/p>\n
These rules were all initially rolled out at the World Cup, but still caused confusion in the first round of the Carabao Cup last weekend.<\/p>\n
These changes will be deployed right through English football, from the EFL kick off this weekend, Sunday’s Community Shield between Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a>, to the Premier League and right down to Sunday league – apart from the video assistant referee (VAR), of course. <\/p>\n The idea is to cut out those moments which cause supporters real frustration, and get more football played without adding on loads of stoppage time. <\/p>\n It worked at the World Cup. In Qatar in 2022, the ball was in play for an average of 58 minutes three seconds, or 56.86% of the total match time. This summer, it was 58 minutes 16 seconds but there was far less added time, meaning the ball was in play for 60.43%.<\/p>\n The changes are intended to change player behaviour, rather than be applied as a strict punishment.<\/p>\n However, they could be seen as a negative for teams who were used to using the dark arts to run down the clock and hold on to a result.<\/p>\n Here is what you need to look out for and how the new laws will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026-27 season will feature an unprecedented number of new laws, mostly designed to tackle tempo disruption and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}