Goal-line technology is to be introduced into Serie A from the start of next season, Italian FA (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio has confirmed.
There had been increased calls for Italian football to follow the example set by the Premier League, and soon to be adopted by the Bundesliga, after AC Milan felt they were deprived of a valid goal in their clash with Udinese.
Milan general manager Adriano Galliani wrote a letter to Tavecchio asking him to look into a system used successfully by FIFA and in England, and after meeting with the FIGC's advisory board it was decided on Wednesday to proceed with plans to introduce the technology from next season.
"We feel it is a situation that has to be studied and the federation has placed the issue of this new technology on the agenda to come in force [from] next season," Tavecchio said, adding that the cost of implementing the goal-line technology "will be covered by the clubs."
It is foreseeable, therefore, that GLT will only come in at Serie A level with the estimated 190,000-euro costs just to set up the system likely to be too great an expense for Serie B clubs.
AC Milan will be one of the clubs welcoming the news having been on the receiving end of two dubious decisions in recent years.
Although the disallowed goal against Udinese did not prevent them from winning that game, they did pay the price for a similar decision in February 2012.
"It's a goal which could decide the league," said the then-AC Milan forward Robinho to Sky Sport after his side were pegged back to a 1-1 draw by Juventus after Sulley Muntari's goal which would have made it 2-0 was not awarded.
"We've been denied a goal which only the referee didn't see. It's incredible."
AC Milan finished eighth in the 2013-14 Serie A season, 45 points behind champions Juventus.