Is the below rule change still in effect?
Players who get sent off will be forced to serve an immediate one-match ban with no right of appeal, Fifa have announced.
The hard-line ruling, confirmed by Fifa president Sepp Blatter today, will be enforced in every league in world.
Red-carded players will miss the next match of the competition they were sent off in, and only be allowed to appeal against suspensions of more than one game or to claim a case of mistaken identity.
The move will cause major changes in disciplinary procedures in British football, where until now dismissed players have had 14 days before they have to serve a suspension, and where professionals have in the past escaped bans by using video evidence.
"From now on any player sent off will face an automatic suspension for one match. Their are no exceptions unless the referee has made a mistake," Blatter confirmed. "We must protect the position of the referee and the fundamental laws of the game."
Fifa have acted following a match between Grasshoppers and Basle in the Swiss league last month in which Grasshoppers' Fabrice Borer was sent off.
The decision was subsequently annulled by the sole disciplinary commissioner of the Swiss league.
Fifa will be contacting all 204 national associations over the next few days to inform them of the decision - and the new ruling is expected to come into force next month.
EDit add 2016/17 changes:
Law 12 – Fouls and Misconduct
• Foul with contact is a direct FK
• Advantage for a RC – indirect FK if offender then gets involved in play
• Change of wording for handball so that not every handball is a YC
• Some DOGSO offences in the penalty area are punished with a YC
• Attempted violent conduct is a RC, even if no contact
• Striking on head/face when not challenging an opponent is a RC (unless negligible)
• Offence against substitutes, team officials, match officials etc. is now a direct FK
• Foul off the field penalised with a direct FK on boundary line (penalty in own penalty area)