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title: "Why Does VAR Sometimes Draw the Offside Line from a Different Frame?"  
description: "Why Does VAR Sometimes Draw the Offside Line from a Different Frame?"  
author: "Marta Kowalska"  
published: 2026-10-14  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117522/why-does-var-sometimes-draw-the-offside-line-from-a-different-frame  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["football", "VAR", "Offside rule"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why Does VAR Sometimes Draw the Offside Line from a Different Frame?

During close offside calls in football, the broadcast sometimes shows a line drawn from a frame that looks slightly earlier or later than the moment the ball is played. In a fast pass, even a fraction of a second can change where the attacker appears to be.

How do officials decide which frame counts as the contact point, especially when the passer’s foot is moving and the camera angle is not perfectly level? I’m curious how much of the controversy comes from the offside rule itself and how much comes from the way **VAR offside lines** are produced and shown to viewers.


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