Goal-line technology (GLT) is likely to be used by match officials for the first time in December's Fifa World Club Cup in Japan - if it is given the go-ahead by the game's rule-making body in July.
The development means Chelsea - and John Terry, who controversially denied a Ukrainian goal while in England colours in the sides' Euro 2012 clash - may be the first British club to play in a major competition with fully operational goal-line gizmos.
Chelsea qualified for the competition - to be staged on December 6 to 16 - by winning the Champions League final in Munich last month.
Ukraine feel aggrieved after TV pictures showed they were denied a good goal in their Group D clash against England, because an additional assistant referee did not spot the ball had gone over the line.
Testing of the technology has now concluded and the experiments have taken place in live games like the England international friendly against Belgium earlier this month.
But, though the referee was wired up to the system for testing purposes, it was never intended to affect the outcome of the game.
The results of that and other extensive testing will be presented to a special meeting of the International Football Association Board on July 5 in Zurich.
Fifa take four of eight seats on the board, and the world governing body's president Sepp Blatter has reaffirmed his commitment to goal-line technology, tweeting that it is now "no longer an alternative but a necessity".
The other members of the board are the football associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - from which there is not likely to be any opposition.
A Fifa spokesman insisted that the decision to adopt technology "is only one part of the issue".
"There are a lot more things that would have to be discussed and decided before you see it in a league or cup competition," he said.
There seems a possibility that Major League Soccer in the US, where the season begins in November, may attempt to adopt GLT ahead of Fifa's World Club Cup.
The English Premier League - backed by the FA - is also keen to introduce a system, perhaps during next season, though all 20 clubs would have to sign up, pay for, install and have their GLT inspected and licensed before use.
"We are on record as saying we would take it at the first opportunity," a Premier League spokesman told Sky News.
If the FA is keen to be first, then this year's Community Shield game between Manchester City and Chelsea on August 12 - displaced from Wembley to Villa Park by the Olympics - could provide an early opportunity, but there is no system currently installed at the Midlands ground.
The two systems currently being seriously considered by Fifa's Swiss-based researchers, EMPA, are Hawk-Eye, familiar to watchers of cricket and tennis, and another called GoalRef.
UK-based Hawk-Eye is a mixture of cameras trained on the goal and mathematics, while GoalRef relies on a special ball interacting with a magnetic field around the goal. It is conceivable that both systems could be adopted.
