VAR is Video Assistant Referee, i.e. an off-field (human) official that manually checks calls using instant replay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistan

VAR is Video Assistant Referee, i.e. an off-field (human) official that manually checks calls using instant replay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee I don't follow association football at all and was unfamiliar with the term; based on the comments here I was guessing it was maybe some sort of machine learning algorithm.