Green jerseys banned in Serie A for the 22-23 season: regulations and exceptions

Stop everyone, so you can’t enter: from the 2022-2023 season, the one that will start just before August 15th, a new “dress code” is in force in Serie A. Those who wear green, in fact, are asked to stay out of the playing field. With the return of the championship that all Italian fans are waiting for, in fact, a new ban comes into force: the green color is in fact not allowed for outfield players of the Italian top division.

Black on white

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The novelty had been made official in advance in 2021 and is now condensed into a line and a half of the Official Communiqué number 3 of the vintage inaugurated earlier this month: “The use of green game uniforms for active players is prohibited” . It goes without saying that the first clarification is linked to the goalkeepers, who are not involved in the new rule and who often and willingly wear the color that will be prohibited for others. All the rest, on the other hand, must be investigated.

Because

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First of all, the reasons for the decision of the Serie A League, which starts from the risk of visually confusing itself between the colors of the kit and the turf of the championship fields. In the recent past this effect has been evident mainly on the television level, with the shots that have sometimes made it difficult to distinguish between the green of the mesh and that of the turf. A nuisance for fans sitting on the sofa, a problem for many graphics visible only in overlay from home with which problems have occurred: the aforementioned graphics work precisely on the basis of the green of the field. These are the reasons for the new rule, even if the cascading effect will also help the referees. In fact, images similar to those on television are drawn from the Var room to examine the thorniest cases of Serie A matches: with all the zooms that are applied in replays, the images often end up being grainy and this chromatic confusion can create uncertainty (yes think about offside) among the assistant referees sitting at the monitors. On the other hand, the impact on the pitch is less, given that most of the time the protagonists’ perspectives contrast the shirts against the stands and not the pitch.

The cases

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It’s easy to say “green”, but obviously changing hue also changes the likelihood of visually blurring. For this reason the ban discourages clubs from choosing the prohibited color for the second and third shirts, even if each color can be more or less nuanced: think of the so-called “water green”, certainly different from the Serie A lawns and therefore hardly deceptive. . In these cases it will eventually be the League to “block” the kits, during the checks it already carries out to verify compliance with the other poles, such as those relating to sponsors on the uniform. Different speech for clubs that have green as their dominant social color: home uniforms are instead exempted from this prohibition. Both the Sassuolo fans and those of the other clubs historically in green therefore breathe a sigh of relief.