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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Premier League clubs agree to use of five substitutes from next season

Everton's Vitaliy Mykolenko prepares to come on as a substitute for Everton against Tottenham this month.
Everton's Vitaliy Mykolenko prepares to come on as a substitute for Everton against Tottenham this month. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters

The Premier League has finally fallen in line with the rest of European club football and agreed to allow its teams to make five substitutions in a match.

A meeting of the league’s 20 clubs agreed to adopt the Fifa law, first drafted as an emergency pandemic measure but now made permanent, after rejecting it on three previous occasions.

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