FIFA president Gianni Infantino has confirmed that there will be further tests of video replays following the trial run during Thursday's international friendly between France and Italy.
The governing body is looking into the possibility of using Video Assistant Referees (VAR) to communicate with match officials when it comes to game-changing decisions or serious missed incidents.
During Thursday's match in Bari, which France won 3-1, the VAR helped referee Bjorn Kuipers show a yellow card rather than a red to Djibril Sidibe and ruled that a penalty should not be given for a handball by Layvin Kurzawa.
"With VAR, we help the referees and we protect the game. We turned a new page in football's history book. After this very pleasant experience, we will see where the VAR tests are leading us. We need more tests. We will continue with testing VAR until 2018 [when the IFAB will decide on VAR]," Infantino told reporters.
"The assistant referees will not be substituted by VAR or any other technology. We will not cannibalise our game. We have to make sure that only clear mistakes are being reviewed by the VARs. Clear mistakes can always happen, but in the future they can be avoided.
"This way, FIFA can build trust between the fans and the game. Incidents where millions of fans witness a clear mistake in a game-changing situation but the refs can't react will be strongly minimised in the future."
The next test of VAR will take place on November 15 when Italy face Germany.
Barney Corkhill
