FIFA To Trial Fourth Substitute In Extra Time At Olympics, Club World Cup

An additional fourth substitute will be allowed in extra-time in football matches played at this summer’s Rio Olympics and at the Club World Cup later in the year, according to the PA. The Int'l FA Board approved trials of an "extra substitute" when games go into an additional half-hour, and FIFA's exec committee has "now announced plans to introduce it into a number of its competitions." FIFA said in a statement, "Following the recent decision by the IFAB to allow experimentation with a fourth substitution in extra-time, the Fifa executive committee agreed for such experiments to be conducted this year at the Olympic football tournaments, the Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea and the Fifa Club World Cup in Japan" (PA, 3/18).