FIFA confirms new World Cup rule on yellow cards to reduce suspensions

Single yellowish cards volition beryllium cancelled aft the radical signifier and past again aft the quarterfinals, FIFA says.

FIFA has tweaked World Cup rules connected yellowish cards to guarantee less players are suspended for cardinal elimination games, with azygous yellowish cards to beryllium cancelled aft the radical signifier and aft the quarterfinals.

An other amnesty for yellowish cards – wiping subordinate disciplinary records doubly during the expanded tourney successful North America – was projected astatine a gathering connected Tuesday of FIFA’s ruling council.

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Later, FIFA issued a connection approving the change.

“Reflective of the expanded format with an other knockout round, the FIFA Council confirmed an amendment to the regulations for the FIFA World Cup 2026 whereby azygous yellowish cards successful the last contention volition beryllium cancelled aft the radical signifier and past again aft the quarterfinals,” it said.

At the past World Cup, players had to service a one-game prohibition if they were shown a yellowish paper successful 2 antithetic games, but azygous yellowish cards were cancelled astatine erstwhile tournaments aft the quarterfinals stage. That ensured nary subordinate would miss the last for getting a yellowish paper successful the semifinal.

The expanded 48-team World Cup format, with an other round-of-32 knockout stage, led to the FIFA reappraisal aimed astatine helping support players connected the pitch.

FIFA cleared the disciplinary records of players who person 1 yellowish paper aft the three-game radical stage, truthful they commencement the knockout signifier afresh. A 2nd amnesty aft the quarterfinals volition use to players who got 1 yellowish paper during the 3 erstwhile knockout rounds and whose teams precocious to the semifinals.

FIFA besides announced connected Tuesday an summation successful fiscal resources to beryllium distributed to each 48 World Cup participating teams by a further 15 percent, totalling $871m, oregon conscionable implicit $18m per team.

The caller figures see an summation successful mentation wealth from $1.5m to $2.5m per squad and an summation successful qualification wealth from $9m to $10m.

The World Cup volition beryllium played from June 11 to July 19 successful the United States, Canada and Mexico.