Video assistant referee errors have risen in the first half of the Premier League season. Data collected by BBC Sport taken from the Premier League's Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel shows mistakes have increased 30% season-on-season from 10 to 13. It is still a marked improvement on previous years, with 20 errors at this stage of the 2023-24 campaign and 23 in 2022-23. But total overturns have also dropped from 57 in 2024-25 to 47 this season - a fall of 17.54%. The KMI Panel also catalogues on-field mistakes which did not reach the clear and obvious threshold for VAR to intervene.

Source: BBC January 13, 2026 13:13 UTC