SOAT reaches domestic English football this weekend, with seven of the eight FA Cup fifth-round ties utilising the technology ...

The Premier League spent two years testing a number of artificial intelligence-based semiautomated offside technology (SAOT) ...

This weekend’s FA Cup fifth round will see the implementation of semi-automated offside technology (SOAT) for the first time in English football. The technology is the latest adaptation to VAR with ...

In theory, the introduction of semi-automated offsides should mean shorter waits for decisions about whether or not a goal was offside, as automating the subjective, fiddly decisions officials used to ...

Semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) will be used for the first time in English football in the fifth ... making process for the video assistant referee (VAR). It will be used in close offside ...

The VAR system has been widely criticized for creating lengthy stoppages during games, but it's rare for any check to last longer than a couple of minutes. The semi-automated offside system is meant ...

The semi-automated technology was supposed to make offside decisions in a few seconds, but in its very first weekend we instead saw the longest VAR check ever in English football… Bournemouth ...

SAOT made its debut in English football ... offside line" by taking the mapping of the relevant players out of the hands of the VAR and into the control of technology. Rather than a referee ...