{"id":614171,"date":"2022-06-24T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614171"},"modified":"2022-06-24T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:21:16","slug":"26-player-squad-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/26-player-squad-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"26-Player Match Day Squad Approved by FIFA for Qatar World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA have approved the rule to allow nations 15 players on the bench during games at the <a href=\"\/football\/2022\/04\/09\/world-cup-2022-teams-upset\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">World Cup<\/a> in Qatar, taking the match-day squads to a total of 26 players, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-10946619\/Gareth-Southgate-allowed-select-26-man-World-Cup-squad-players-available-bench.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sami Mokbel<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The rule was introduced by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) and confirmed for the winter World Cup by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/tournaments\/mens\/worldcup\/qatar2022\/media-releases\/bureau-of-fifa-council-approves-increase-of-fifa-world-cup-tm-squads-to-26\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA<\/a> on Thursday, June 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIFA approve 26 man squads for the World Cup &#8211; and all of them can be named on a match-day unlike the Euros. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JAMBk5DYfI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/JAMBk5DYfI<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MailSport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sami Mokbel (@SamiMokbel_BBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamiMokbel_BBC\/status\/1540002563910680581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>FIFA Allow 26-Player Match Day Squads for Qatar 2022<\/h2>\n<h3>What Has Changed?<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to increase the number of players available on the bench was taken to help ease the workload after the Covid-19 pandemic and the uniqueness of a winter World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefaeuro\/history\/news\/0269-1231c722336f-a54e4e7fa9e8-1000--bigger-euro-squads-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UEFA<\/a> introduced a similar rule for Euro 2020, increasing the tournament squad to 26 but match-day squads remained at 23.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen players will be available to each nation from the bench, as opposed to the 12 available in previous tournaments, which should allow better load-management for teams playing a lot of games during already congested seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also confirmed that nations are allowed 11 members of staff on the bench during games, one of which must be the team doctor.<\/p>\n<p>IFAB has also made the initially short-term decision to allow five substitutions to be made each game permanent in their latest amendments to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theifab.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laws of the Game<\/a>. Like the option to allow 15 players on the bench for a game, the option to allow five substitutes is up to the discretion of the competition organiser. FIFA hasn&#8217;t announced that five substitutions will be allowed per team during the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the release list of players announced before the final squad is chosen has also been increased from 35 to 55 players for this year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does This Mean for England?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/football\/2022\/04\/02\/potential-england-players-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Gareth Southgate<\/a>, among other coaches, has come out to support the ruling to increase the size of match-day squads for the World Cup. Southgate had to axe three players before each match day during Euro 2020, which he said had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12016\/12299310\/england-at-euro-2020-gareth-southgate-may-name-core-23-man-squad-despite-uefas-increase-to-26\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effect on the morale of the squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The release list of 55 players will have to be submitted by Southgate by 13 November 2022, which is the last round of Premier League games until Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s first game of the World Cup is at 1pm on November 21 against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA have approved the rule to allow nations 15 players on the bench during games at the World Cup in Qatar, taking the match-day squads to a total of 26 players, Sami Mokbel reports. 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