Premier League clubs are poised to reject the introduction of video technology into the world’s richest league next season.

The 20 top-flight teams will meet on Friday to decide whether to use the video assistant referee system in the competition from the start of the 2018-19 campaign.

Ahead of their quarterly shareholders’ meeting, clubs were anticipating that not enough of them would vote in favour of VAR in a ballot that requires a two-thirds majority.

Barring a shock outcome, they were instead expected to approve the expansion of non-live trials, first revealed by the Daily Telegraph, to include entire rounds of matches.

Friday’s debate will be preceded by a presentation by the managing director of Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, Mike Riley, but the Premier League executive will make no recommendation to club executives on how to vote.