Premier League clubs have agreed in principle to introduce additional permanent concussion substitutions after the sport's rule-making body IFAB approved trials.
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But the English top-flight clubs have also voted against allowing teams to make five substitutions per match this season, a Premier League source told Reuters.
Representatives from all 20 clubs attended a shareholders' meeting on Thursday, where they discussed the issue following IFAB's decision to give the go-ahead to trials on Wednesday.
The new rule will allow a maximum of two permanent concussion replacements in cases of head injury, regardless of the number of substitutions a team has made already.
The new protocols will also allow the opposing team to make an equivalent number of changes and the league has said it hopes to begin trials by January.
The clubs, though, have rejected the pleas from a number of top-flight managers -- including Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola of Manchester City -- to introduce a five substitutions rule to protect player welfare amid a COVID-affected fixture schedule.
The proposal once again failed to meet the threshold of 14 votes in favour at a meeting of the 20 clubs.
Instead, the shareholders agreed to increase the number of players allowed on the bench from seven to nine. This measure will come into effect from Saturday.
Australian Associated Press
