Cardiff, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 — The 2010/11 UEFA Champions League will feature two additional assistant referees after the International Football Association Board (IFAB) ratified the decision in a meeting.

The Europa League experimented with the additional assistant referees system last season.

IFAB, who are football’s rule-makers, also confirmed that they will discuss the issue of goal-line technology in October.

The IFAB is made up of four representatives from FIFA, football’s governing body, and the football associations of Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland.

The IFAB had earlier rejected goal-line technology in March 2010 but after the referee missed the shot by England’s Frank Lampard which bounced off the crossbar and dropped over the line in the last-16 game against Germany, FIFA had no choice but to agree to bring it up again.

The FIFA president Sepp Blatter was forced to admit this in South Africa when he said: “It is obvious that after the experience so far in this World Cup, it would be a nonsense not to reopen the file of technology at the business meeting of the International FA Board in July.”