The German Football League took part early in the international trials of the video assistant referee. In the 2016/17 season it tested the system offline at three Bundesliga matches per round. In the next season it was used live in all nine matches of each round. In March 2018 the 18 Bundesliga clubs decided, with one abstention, to keep the video assistant permanently. They named the wish for more sporting fairness as the reason. According to the league, by the 26th round of that season the video assistant had prevented 49 clear wrong decisions in 68 interventions.