Topics covered Match Reports
Under 14 & Under 16 Divisions - Competition
Under 12 Division - Competition
The home team is responsible for supplying the match report and making sure that it is completed and mailed to the league.
Clubs must ensure that the match report is completed in full (as far as possible) before the kick off. After the game the home team fills in the result and mails it to John Edmunds to arrive no later than three days after the match referred to.
If you are the away team and you are not presented by the home club with a match report to complete then please ensure that you report this to me when you phone in the result.
If you are the home team and the away team simply hands over a list of players to you please tell them to complete the report themselves. If the away team does not complete the report please make a note of this on the form before sending it in.
Home clubs not submitting a match report will be fined and both clubs may be fined if the report is not completed correctly.
Results must be phoned in by 7pm for Saturday and Sunday games and by 9pm for midweek games. BOTH TEAMS MUST PHONE IN THE RESULT.
If you want to apply for a postponement please make sure you do so in accordance with the rules.
Use the postal service not email for this.
You cannot ‘agree amongst yourselves’ not to play a game on a particular Saturday and play it later in the season. Games not played on the scheduled day will be treated as broken fixtures.
Remember children tend to go on school trips during the half terms and Easter holidays – these things are not arranged at the last minute they require weeks if not months of preparation by the school so there is no excuse for not applying correctly.
If you call off a game due to inclement weather please make sure you tell your opponents and also phone it in instead of the result.
Sometimes Torfaen Council make a 'blanket' decision to call of all games on their pitches. This used to mean that all games in the league were off but, following an appeal by a member club last season, this is not now the case. Some clubs have control of their own pitches and they are responsible for making the decision regarding pitch fitness (click here for a list of pitches and who controls them.) Do not assume a game is off without checking with the home team.
Under 14 and Under 16 Divisions
The competition will consist of two phases. In phase one each team will play all of the other teams once. For phase two the divisions will be split into two or three sections based on league position at the end of phase one. The top teams from phase 1 will go into section A The teams in each of the smaller sections will then play each other again (venue reversed from the phase one fixture)
The winners and runners up in section A will be declared the division champions and runners up – there are no prizes for the winners etc of the other sections.
As things stand there will be around 19 fixtures in the Under 16 division and around 22 in the Under 14 division. This is similar to last season when games were played right up to the end of April.
Because of withdrawals teams will play each other THREE times
Fixtures must be completed on or before 30 April 2008
Where a club runs two or more teams in the same competitive division the teams are treated as totally separate for registration purposes.
For example : Once registered for the B team a player cannot play for the A team unless he has a formal transfer approved by the league/County FA