The “Daylight Offside” rule came into use in the third week of the 2026 Canadian Premier League season.

Following several trial runs, semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) is officially coming to the Premier League this weekend. The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was the first major tournament to use ...

How the Offside Rule Works in Soccer The offside law exists to prevent attackers from standing behind the defense and waiting for a long ball. Without it, football would be a sport of punt-and-chase, ...

In hockey, a game can be defined by pure inches. That's especially the case at the blue line, where the margin between a scoring chance and a dead play is as thin as the edge of a skate blade. It is a ...

Alejandro Diaz's opener for Pacific FC against Halifax Wanderers was awarded, when it would normally be ruled offside.

The first goal allowed under the experimental "daylight" offiside law was scored in Canada when Alejandro Diaz's strike was ...

This article may have Spanish-language video from our Telemundo sister station. Get the latest World Cup news in Spanish from Telemundo. NBC Universal, Inc. The Women’s World Cup is back again, which ...

In football, a player is in an offside position if he/she is past the opponents last line of defense once the ball is released. In short, they are offside if nearer to the opponents' goal line than ...

The worrying news that Taiwo Awoniyi has been placed in an induced coma following surgery on a serious abdominal injury will sharpen the focus even more on how it happened. The rule has to be changed.

Everton manager David Moyes believes that Diogo Jota’s winner in Wednesday’s Merseyside derby should have been disallowed for offside, describing it as a “very easy decision to give”. In the build-up ...