Fifa has yet to decide definitively.
But there is no reason for it not to follow the rule changes adopted Monday in Doha (Qatar) by Ifab, the guarantor of football laws.
The International board has validated the increase in the number of substitutes on a match sheet from 12 to 15 players.
All “at the discretion of the competition organizers”.
It is therefore then up to Fifa, UEFA and other Federations or Leagues to grant this right to selections and clubs.
In view of the 2022 World Cup, this opens the door to lists of 26 players against 23 in the past.
This was already the case for Euro 2021 across the Old Continent but, with 12 players on the bench, three others were "condemned" to remain in the stands at each meeting.
Moussa Sissoko, Marcus Thuram and Léo Dubois were thus not registered on the score sheet of the first match of the French team against Germany (1-0) at the Euro.
This time, the situation would therefore be different since 15 players would have the right to sit on the edge of the lawn and could come into play at any time.
About the lists of 26, Didier Deschamps assured in March 2021: "I think that if UEFA is looking into being able to expand the list, it would be a good thing, provided of course that it can be two three. more players, so that everyone can be on the score sheet".
A final point now possible with this evolution of the Ifab rule, adopted in the presence of Gianni Infantino, president of Fifa.
Especially since another novelty, the definitive adoption of five replacements during the match instead of three, pushes in favor of widening the selections.
During the 2018 World Cup, the France team flew with 23 players and only Adil Rami, among the field players, could not play a minute.
In 2021, Didier Deschamps had selected 26 players but Wissam Ben Yedder, Léo Dubois and Kurt Zouma, among the field players, had not played.
