La Liga confirms plan to introduce VAR next season

La Liga will embrace technology's growing influence in football after revealing plans to introduce Video Assistant Referees (VAR) next season.

The Spanish league confirmed Friday that officials are undergoing training in preparation for the implementation of VAR ahead of the 2018-19 campaign.

In conjunction with the Royal Spanish Football Federation, La Liga officials are hopeful that the International Football Association Board will approve efforts to implement VAR, which will be applied to reveal obvious errors in relation to goals, penalty situations, direct red cards, and to clear up any confusion over the misidentification of penalised players.

The statement also revealed that a Video Operations Centre will be located in Las Rozas and that Mediapro will provide the technology following the multimedia company's experience with VAR in other competitions.

La Liga president Javier Tebas confirmed in November that efforts were being made to address the possibility of introducing VAR and that the league would no longer resist the enforcement of goal-line technology.