Video technology will not be used in the Champions League next season, the president of Uefa confirmed on Monday.

Aleksander Ceferin also cast doubt on whether the Laws of the Game would be changed on Saturday to permit Video Assistant Referees (VAR) to be rolled out worldwide.

The second most powerful man in world football said he had been invited to attend this weekend’s annual general meeting of the International Football Association Board, which had previously been expected to vote to allow VAR to be used throughout the professional game despite a succession of problems during two years of tests of the system.

“I don’t think they will make it a rule but they will allow everybody to test it,” Ceferin said following Monday’s Uefa congress in Bratislava.

“I think that it will be probably used at the World Cup. We will not use it from the next season in the Champions League. I can tell you that. But I’m absolutely not against it. I think there’s no way back anymore. But we have to educate the referees properly.

“Nobody exactly knows how it works, which might be a big problem. So, let’s see what happens at the World Cup and then we will decide.”