England, Italy, Germany and France use hawk’s eye

The Premier League in England, the German Bundesliga and the Italian and French championships use hawk’s eyethe technological system used to determine whether a ball crosses the goal line, while Spain and Portugal do not include it in their priorities, among other issues due to the cost of 4 million euros that will be spent on its implementation in professional football. In both France and Italy, the system passed through several critical moments.

The controversy that arose this past Sunday during theReal Madrid-Barça at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, When in the 27th minute of the game, Lamine Yamal touched the ball at the near post after a Raphinha corner that was cleared by Lunin, the Real Madrid goalkeeper, reopened the debate in Spain. César Soto Grado, the referee of the Clásico, decided not to award a goal after reviewing the game through VAR.

The European landscape in the use of goal line technology is as follows: The Premier League is considered one of the biggest supporters of goal-line technology applied to professional football. The English league began working experimentally with the technology in 2006, and decided to implement Hawkeye, renamed the Goal Decision System (GDS), in the 2013/14 campaign.

Premier goal line technology can be decisive in the outcome of a title, as was the case in the 2018/2019 season when John Stones takes the ball on the line 11 millimeters with a goalless tie between Liverpool and Manchester City and only one point in the standings between them.

Serious mistake to concede a goal to Sheffield

In the Premier League the referee receives a warning on his watch if the ball crosses the line. However, so is technology made a serious mistake when conceding a Sheffield United goal against Aston Villa in 2020 where the ball crossed the line. The position of the players, covering the cameras, prevented the goal from being seen and this was the first mistake in more than 9,000 games of this system.

The Bundesliga It adopted the hawk’s eye in December 2014 to end ghost goals and started applying it from July 1, 2015 to the top categories of German championship matches.

In its part, The French League started using the hawk eye in the 2015-2016 season by acquiring the German company Goalcontrol. However, at the end of the 2017-2018 academic year, the French League decided to terminate the contract due to numerous device assessment errors. The French championship then chose to resort to the British Hawk-Eyemore expensive than Goalcontrol, but, in principle, more reliable because Seria A, Premier and Bundesliga have already used it.

In 2022, the French League renewed the use of the Hawk-Eye company’s hawk eye for two years in exchange for a total of 3 million euros. In Italy, goal technology was installed in the 2015-16 season, 9 years ago today. Since then it has been used non-stop and almost without any scandal despite the 5 millimeter margin of error. The annual value of the goal’s technology is around 2 million euros, according to local media.

There was also trouble in a Sampdoria-Genoa

The most memorable episode starring Hawkeye occurred at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, in a Sampdoria-Genoa where the ball does not clearly enter a shot on goal but the referee’s clock begins to vibrate signaling a goal. The referee did not award the goal and confirmed to the fourth official that it was a tool error.

The clock’s warning signal is not definitive for the referee in Italy because it does not force him to make a decision, even though most trust the tool since VAR can intervene to correct a possible error.

On the other hand, in portuguese league There is no goal technology yet, which was confirmed to EFE by the Portuguese League itself due to the high economic cost of this system. Yes, there is goal line technology in the editions of the Portuguese League Cup in the 19-20 and 20-21 campaigns. Portugal and Spain They are the two elite European football leagues that have not opted for this technology.