After having earlier decided against the use of goal-line technology (GLT), football’s governing body FIFA has now taken a U-turn on its decision, and has agreed to the use of GLT at the Brazil World Cup next year.

With two goal-line technologies – the British Hawk-Eye system and German-designed GoalRef – having being successfully trialled at the Club World Cup in Japan in December 2012, FIFA’s turnaround on the use of the technology is apparently an upshot of the some big match errors of judgement that the referees made in crucial tournament games.

With FIFA’s decision paving the way for the installation of GLT in all stadia for the Confederations Cup in Brazil this year, a brief statement by the governing body has revealed that the technology will be used to “support the match officials”, pending pre-match referee tests.

However, neither of the two technologies which were used in Japan has been guaranteed to be used in Brazil; with FIFA revealing that the availability of different goal-line technologies in the market has prompted it to launch a tender, setting out the technical prerequisites for two forthcoming matches in Brazil.

About the launch of the tender, FIFA said: “The two GLT providers already licensed under FIFA’s Quality Programme for GLT [Hawk-Eye and GoalRef], and other GLT providers currently in the licensing process (that must have passed all relevant tests as of today) are invited to submit tenders.”