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always, is here to give you full information about this new development.
Questions like what it is and what competitions it will be implemented; among
others will all be answered here.
Already being used in England as seen in the Community
Shield Match that was played between Arsenal and Chelsea with The Gunners;
eventual winners through the new penalty system. It has also been previously
used in other competitions like the Premier League Asia Trophy and even
recently this summer in the U-20 World Cup.
So what is the ABBA
Penalty System?
Adopted from Tennis in situations of a “Tie Break”, the ABBA
Penalty system is under examination by different football bodies.
This system of taking penalties introduces an order that
contradicts the traditional “turn by turn” penalty system, whereby after a team
takes her penalty, the other team is followed and it goes on until a winner is
decided. Rather, with the new system, after the first team has taken her
penalty, the second team takes two penalties in succession and then back to the
first team again to take two in succession until a winner is decided.
This new system was sanctioned for trials by the football
decision makers; The International
Football Association Board (IFAB).
How does it work?
First, there must be a situation whereby there is need for a
match to be decided with a penalty shootout. For instance, in cases where both
teams were unable to produce a winner in open play, a penalty shootout would be
used to decide a winner.
Afterwards, the officiating referee will toss a coin to
determine what sides of the pitch will be used for the penalty shootout and
then another coin will be tossed to choose who will be the first team to take
the penalty.
The system requires the first team to take her penalty once
afterwards, the opponent takes theirs twice and then the first team comes again
to take her penalty but unlike the first time, the first team will take her
penalties twice and this goes on up till the 10th penalty is taken
and if after the 10th kick, a winner is not decided, the trend goes
on until a winner is decided.
To get a clearer depiction of the new system, assume Team A is to take the first penalty,
and then followed by Team B. In that
case, after Team A takes the first
penalty, Team B takes theirs twice
and then Team A returns to take
theirs twice and so will Team B also
until a winner is decided. Hence the origin of the name “ABBA”
Why the need for this
new penalty system?
This trial is part of the IFAB’s “play fair”
initiative, and the European football body UEFA has endorsed it. The IFAB felt
that the existing penalty shootout system gave the team taking the first kick
an unfair advantage.
“The hypothesis is that the player taking the
second kick in the pair is under greater mental pressure, because if the
opposition's first penalty in the pair has been successful, a miss by the
second penalty-taker in the pair could mean the immediate loss of a match for
his team, especially from the fourth pair of penalties onwards – i.e. the 7th
and 8th spot kicks,” UEFA said in a release in its website.”
When was
The ABBA Penalty System first used?
After being approved for trials by IFAB, it was
used in the UEFA European Women’s U-17 finals at Czech earlier this year. It
was also used in the Community Shield Final with Arsenal running out as
eventual winners. Before the community shield final, it has been used elsewhere
in the Premier League Asia Trophy this summer.
What
competitions will this system be used in the 2017/2018 season?
Already used this summer by UEFA in this just
concluded U-20 World Cup, it is not yet been ascertained that other UEFA
competitions will implement this new system. But the English Football League
will use it across all its competitions this season. This means that the League
Cup and the EFL Championship (Play offs) will be using this system. Though, it
has not been announced if it will be used in the FA Cup this season as the
competition is also trying out a new system of its own with the VAR Technology set to debut in England this season from
the third round of the competition.
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