Reporter reveals new measures for the Club World Cup: referees wear cameras, semi-automatic offside, and AI collect data

 8:06am, 7 June 2025

According to reporter Jacobs, this Club World Cup will launch a series of new measures.

Jacobs revealed new initiatives for the Club World Cup:

referees will wear body cameras, and the video will be used for live match broadcasts

The referees will watch the monitor's screen in real time in the stadium

. Advanced semi-automatic offside technology will be used, and sensors will be implanted in the game ball. As part of FIFA's cooperation with Hawkeye System, artificial intelligence will be used to collect real-time match data

Substitution requests will be submitted through a digital tablet instead of traditional paper strips