Clubs in the English Football League (EFL) will formally vote on whether to re-introduce the five substitutes rule in the summer.
This week saw the Premier League announce that enough clubs had voted in favour of the rule being reverted to five permitted substitutions for it to be brought back. The league confirmed in a statement that teams would be allowed the extra changes from the start of the 2022-23 season. The rule had originally been used during the Project Restart return to football for the final rounds of the 2019/2020 season, which was heavily delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It was then discontinued in the two campaigns following that, with top-flight teams reverting to three permitted changes per match.
