The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has showed that teams might be allowed to make up to 5 substitutions in video games in the course of the Africa Cup of Nations to help fight the effect of COVID-19 associated absences.
Rules additionally country that teams should play in the event that they have as a minimum eleven gamers available, although that does not encompass a acknowledged goalkeeper, or else will forfeit the sport. The event gets underway on Sunday whilst hosts Cameroon take on Burkina Faso.
A assertion on the CAF internet site outlined the measures, confirming that: "Each team may be authorised to apply a most of five substitutes. "To lessen disruption to the match, each team could have a most of 3 possibilities to make substitutions at some stage in the sport; substitutions can also be made at 1/2-time.
"If both teams make a substitution at the equal time, this will remember as one of the 3 opportunities for each group. Unused substitutions and possibilities are carried ahead into more time. Where extra time is played, groups will every be allowed one extra substitution, and will have one additional substitution opportunity; substitutions can also be made earlier than the start of more time and at 1/2-time in more time."
On policies concerning the minimal quantity of players required, CAF confirmed that any crew unable to area 11 gamers will forfeit the sport with a 2-zero defeat. "If the end result of the COVID-19 PCR check of any player is wonderful, such participant will not be accepted to visit the stadium or participate inside the relevant suit," the statement persisted.
"A team may be required to play a match if they have at the least eleven players to be had who have examined terrible. In the event of the absence of a goalkeeper, another player from the crew must update the goalkeeper, furnished the total variety of available gamers is at least eleven. A group that does not have at the very least eleven players available may be considered to have misplaced the suit zero-2. In remarkable cases, the Organizing Committee of the Africa Cup of Nations will take the appropriate choice."
