{"id":1133129,"date":"2022-06-24T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/24\/fifa-council-approves-increase-of-fifa-world-cup-squads-to-26-players\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:44:32","slug":"fifa-council-approves-increase-of-fifa-world-cup-squads-to-26-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/24\/fifa-council-approves-increase-of-fifa-world-cup-squads-to-26-players\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Council approves increase of FIFA World Cup squads to 26 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1650457367_634_blackstars-teampick-bbp1050-696x391.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>FIFA has confirmed that countries competing at this year\u2019s\u00a0World Cup\u00a0in Qatar will be allowed to name\u00a026-player squads.<\/p>\n<p>Managers will also be able to use up to\u00a0five substitutes\u00a0in a game.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, countries have only been allowed to name 23 players in their squads, but that number has been increased following concerns over player welfare since the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of players to be included on the final list has been increased to at least 23 and a maximum of 26,\u201d FIFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>For those players included in a World Cup squad, the final date they will be allowed to play for their clubs before the tournament begins is November 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During matches, no more than 26 people (up to 15 substitutes and 11 team officials) will be allowed to sit on the team bench.<\/p>\n<p>One of those officials must be the team doctor.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA allowed 26-player squads for the European Championship last year, although only 23 players could be named for each game.<\/p>\n<p>South American governing body CONMEBOL allowed teams in last year\u2019s Copa America to name 28-player squads.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OotvRkQeJA4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (23-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OotvRkQeJA4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars FIFA has confirmed that countries competing at this year\u2019s\u00a0World Cup\u00a0in Qatar will be allowed to name\u00a026-player squads. Managers will also be able to use up to\u00a0five substitutes\u00a0in a game. In the past, countries have only been allowed to name 23 players in their squads, but that number has been increased following concerns over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4708,3761,262,779,445,190,6912,784],"class_list":["post-1133129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-approves","tag-council","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-increase","tag-players","tag-squads","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}