The Hong Kong Football Association is hoping the introduction of a video assistant referee (VAR) system will give the city an edge when competing for large-scale football events.
The new system, to be introduced in stages from the start of the new season in July, aims to improve the accuracy of critical decisions in refereeing around four key areas – allowing/disallowing goals, penalty decisions, direct red card decisions and awarding a red or yellow card.
Since the official use of VAR at the 2018 Fifa World Cup Russia, the technology has been widely introduced in major domestic leagues and international tournaments, with the accuracy of key match decisions being improved to almost 99 per cent.
