Estonia & VAR - 2023 vs 2024

Estonia finished its 2nd season with VAR in 2024. It is now possible to compare it to the first season of 2023. As Estonia did not use the offside line technology then we do not use data on offsides at the moment.

RefPal has been playing an instrumental part in our VAR development from 3 aspects:

1. 1. All the decisions made by VAR’s are in our system and have an official mark meaning we have exact data on our decision accuracy and also our missed interventions.
2. 2. We are running a weekly VAR seminar in RefPal to highlight the positives and possible improvement aspects of VAR.
3. 3. We can track time of each review and intervention.

Comparison between 2023 and 2024

As a conclusion, the Estonian VAR Light project has become more accurate and faster in our second season. There is still room for plenty of improvement though, especially as the wrong interventions are the ones that cause the most noise in the media and discontent amongst the teams and the fans. We @RefPal are proud to be a part of this process and helping our referees to improve their skills.