Qatar 2022: more cameras and AI, the technology behind the World Cup

The integration of this system represents a further step for innovation in sport during specific situations. In the English Premier League, for example, a system is used to draw lines from the cockpit and determine an offside, however, this system has been criticized for its inefficiency.

It is worth mentioning that during the World Cup in Qatar, the technology will not be completely new, since the soccer body has already carried out trials and tests during official tournaments, such as the Arab Cup and the 2021 Club World Cup, and even the MIT Sports Lab and experts from the ETH University in Zurich analyzed the information from these tournaments to prove the technology.

FIFA also announced that it will continue to carry out further tests to refine the system, before establishing a standard for the use of the technology during the most important tournament of the year.

“We hope that the semi-automated offside detection technology will help us continue to improve. We are aware that sometimes it takes too long to check a possible illegal position. This is where technology is of great help,” said the chairman of the FIFA referees committee, Pierluigi Collina.