{"id":106367,"date":"2025-05-16T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106367\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:26:11","slug":"new-premier-league-rule-set-for-2025-26-season-as-everton-liverpool-and-rivals-set-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106367\/","title":{"rendered":"New Premier League rule set for 2025\/26 season as Everton, Liverpool and rivals set to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League will introduce a new rule for the 2025\/26 season which allows only club captains to speak to referees during games<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Everton-FC-v-Liverpool-FC-Premier-League.jpg\" alt=\"Virgil van Dijk and James Tarkowski speak to Premier League referee Michael Oliver\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Virgil van Dijk and James Tarkowski speak to Premier League referee Michael Oliver(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Premier League is set to implement a new rule for the 2025\/26 season, allowing only club captains to converse with referees during matches, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 20 <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/barclays-premier-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> clubs are due to convene next month for their annual general meeting, where it&#8217;s expected that this rule, already in use in UEFA Competitions, will be approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Referees&#8217; organisation PGMOL is advocating for the Football League to adopt this protocol, which has been in place in football since Euro 2024 and subsequently across all three UEFA club competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A report from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2025\/05\/15\/new-premier-league-rule-captains-referee\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> suggests that officials have generally welcomed the rule, as it allows them to &#8220;explain decisions rather than justify decisions&#8221; to team captains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Only significant incidents in a match will be discussed with the two captains. The remaining 20 players can still engage with the referee and assistants during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In instances where the goalkeeper is the captain, clubs can designate an outfield player to communicate with the referee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">UEFA stated last summer: &#8220;This information and accompanying explanations are provided only to the team captains, who are the only players entitled to speak to the referee and request clarifications in a respectful manner,&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Captains must also take responsibility for their team-mates, asking them to respect the referee, keep their distance and not surround the match officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The rule was introduced by IFAB in November 2023 to deter players from crowding the referee following a decision. Players are frequently shown yellow cards for dissent in response to a decision they disagree with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Now, players who disregard this new regulation will be given yellow cards. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/everton-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> have picked up 75 yellow cards this season with Liverpool managing just 63.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League will introduce a new rule for the 2025\/26 season which allows only club captains to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1467,94,763,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-106367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-everton-fc","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-liverpool-fc","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114517743000689142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}