Developed by technology company Genius Sports, the Premier League says it creates a "more efficient placement of the virtual offside line" by taking the mapping of the relevant players out of the ...

It was supposed to be the innovation that made offside decisions almost instantaneous. But the first weekend of ...

SOAT reaches domestic English football this weekend, with seven of the eight FA Cup fifth-round ties utilising the technology ...

the VAR currently needs to work with replay operators (RO) to manually determine the ‘kick-point’ for the offside decision and then ‘draw’ calibrated lines with a crosshair on the relevant ...

FA Cup ties at Premier League grounds will use semi-automated offside technology, which is designed to improve the speed and efficiency of decisions; if a success, the system will be brought into the ...

Semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) will be used for the first time in English football in the fifth round of the 2024-25 Emirates FA Cup ...

In February 2023, the VAR failed to identify that a Brentford player was offside in the buildup to a goal at Arsenal. On the same day, the lines had been placed on the wrong Crystal Palace ...

The VAR must then validate that the kick point and offside line are accurate, and the offside player is active, and then inform the referee who can confirm or change the on-field decision.