Goal-Line Technology May Be Introduced to Premier League Midway Through Next Season

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has suggested goal-line technology may be introduced halfway through next season.

Goal-line technology will be used for the first time in an English football match on Wednesday night during the Hampshire Senior Cup Final between Eastleigh FC and AFC Totton.

FIFA will rule in July whether the technology will be allowed across the world and the Premier League are keen to implement one of two systems after a controversial season for referees.

It had been anticipated that the technology would be introduced at the start of the 2013/14 season, ailment but Scudamore now thinks the system could be in place by the middle of next season, pills providing FIFA give it the green light this summer.

He said: “The original position was that we would only introduce it at the beginning of a season, but having thought it all through there is some possibility of introducing it mid-season if we get it right.”