Selected leagues will use system during 2025-26 season
2023-24 season saw 13% rise in serious misconduct cases
The Football Association is to introduce cooling-off periods in grassroots football in acknowledgement that “more must be done” to contain bad behaviour by players at that level.
A select number of grassroots leagues are to trial the system this year, a move that will allow referee to order players of both teams to stop and retreat to their penalty area in order to prevent “escalation during heated moments in a match”.
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- Source: https://mkekawin.com/grassroots-football-to-trial-cooling-off-periods-in-bid-to-tackle-rise-in-misconduct/