Bad news for goalkeepers as new football rule passed 👀

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Richard Buxton·1 March 2025

Bad news for goalkeepers as new football rule passed 👀

Timewasting will soon have different consequences in games..

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A new rule passed by lawmakers IFAB is set to change how goalkeepers trying to run down the clock is punished with an amendment to the current six-second limit.

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Instead of being punished with an indirect free kick for holding onto the ball longer than an eight-second period, referees will be award a corner to the opposing team.

Match officials will use a "visual five-second countdown" to warn goalkeepers of the looming cut-off with the change coming into effect from the start of July.

Breaking: Football’s laws to change next season so that a corner instead of an indirect free-kick will be awarded if goalkeeper holds on to the ball for longer than 8 secs. Referees will have a visual five-second countdown.
– Saturday, 1 March 2025

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