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Game Procedures, Rules and Documents:

Referee Game Reports
Scheduling Game Changes
Reporting Game Scores
Reporting Forfeits
Filing a Protest or Report Game Incidents or Injuries
Game Day Rules and Procedures
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Full text of MWSL Rules and Regulations

Referee Game Report:

Each team is required to use the official Referee Game Report for every game. You must list all the players on your team, game date, opposing team, and game location. The referee will complete the report by including the score and any comments. They will then send it to the MWSL.

Simply open this form and save to your computer.

Helpful Hint: Complete the whole season at one time and keep in your Team Rep folder. Fill in your player information first, then complete the game information, printing it off after you enter each new game. Keep in a location where all your team members can find it.

Referee Game Report (MS Word Document)

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Scheduling Game Changes:

In order to ensure that referees can find your game, you must contact the Commissioner with any changes of date, time, or field. To arrange a change with the opposing team, please contact the team representative directly, and then either e-mail the Commissioner (see Contacts) or leave a message on the hot-line. If the game is rescheduled in 48 hours in advance, there will be no charge to reschedule; otherwise, there will be a $5.00 charge.

The game is not officially rescheduled until you have received an acknowledgment from the Commissioner or another member of the MWSL Board!

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Reporting Game Scores:

1. E-mail the commissioner (see Contacts) or call the MWSL hotline at (651) 633-1211. Please provide the following information:

    • Your name
    • Team name
    • Division
    • Date of the game
    • Game score
    • Comments (Referee evaluation, field conditions, unorthodox play, ...)

2. Scores must be reported by BOTH TEAMS within 48 hours of your game.

3. The first failure to report scores within the allotted 48 hours will result in a written warning; Subsequent failures may result in a team fine.

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Reporting Forfeits:

A game is considered a Forfeit when a team has less than 7 players by 15 minutes after the schedule game time. If both teams mutually forfeit by neither having 7 or more players, or neither taking the field by 15 minutes after the schedule game time, both pay their portion to the referee at the game.

  1. Referee is responsible for writing their name/address and the names/addresses of the associate refs on the game report. They must indicate the game is a forfeit and by which team.
  2. Both teams contact the commissioner to let them know the game was a forfeit, and which team is responsible for the Referee Fee. The commissioner will verify with the Game Report.
  3. The commissioner will send a letter to the team requesting the total amount in Referee Fees due.
  4. The team must the pay the MWSL the stated amount within 7 days of receipt of the letter or additional fines will be assessed. The MWSL will compensate the Referee's accordingly.

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Filing a Protest or Report Game Incidents or Injuries:

Contact the MWSL Commissioner directly as soon as possible (See Contacts). Injuries or Red Cards require that the referee mail a game report to the MWSL Board. This game report must be complete and properly filled out!

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Game Day Rules and Procedures

Game Day Rules

Game Day Procedures

 

Game Day Rules

1. All games sponsored by the MWSL will be conducted in accordance with the most current version of the USSF and/or FIFA Laws of the Game, and in accordance with the rules of the MWSL.

2. Every team is responsible to the MWSL for the conduct of its players, team officials, and spectators, and as such, is required to take all precautions necessary to prevent threat or assault against visiting persons or referees.

3. Team managers will be provided with roster forms on which they will write team member's names and, where required, shirt numbers. This will be done for every game. Players playing up or down from another team will be clearly indicated on the roster form. Managers will sign the roster form and hand it to the referee prior to the start of each game.

4. Each player must hand her player pass to the referee before each game. Late players shall present their pass to a referee before entering the game.

5. If a team does not line up with at least seven (7) players within 15 minutes after the scheduled start time, the game may not be started and may be declared forfeit for that team. If both teams fall to line up, the game may be declared forfeit for both teams.

6. If a game is not started because of Section 15.05 or Section 17.02, and the referee is being paid the full game fees, the referees are expected to referee a "friendly" game, if it is started within 15 minutes of the forfeit time. The exception is if forfeiture results from field conditions (For example, scheduled time is 6:45, one team forfeits at 7:00, referees may leave the field if no friendly game is in progress by 7:15).

7. If no assigned referee appears to officiate a game within 15 minutes after the scheduled kick-off time, the game must be rescheduled. The home team must notify the division commissioner immediately.

8. If one team forfeits a game as described in Section 15.05, 16.03, or 17.02, that team will pay the full referee's fee to the MWSL.

9. If both teams are declared forfeit as described in Section 15.05, they will each pay half the referee's fee to the MWSL.

10. The referees will be on the field 15 minutes before the game's scheduled start time.

11. Referees will use the 3-person, diagonal system of control.

12. The referee will enforce the rules and decide any disputed point. The referee's decision on points of fact connected with the play will be final so far as the result of the game is concerned.

13. The referee must retain the player pass of an ejected player and forward the card, along with a game report, to the MWSL Commissioner. For so long as the player is suspended, the MWSL Commissioner will retain the player's pass.

14. There shall be unlimited substitution during the game, but substitutions will only be allowed at the following points:

a. after a goal by either team

b. after a goal kick has been awarded to either team

c. at half-time

d. when a player leaves the field with an injury

e. at a throw-in, but only by the team with the ball

15. Players not currently in the game should remain within a limited area.

16. A game stopped by the referee under FIFA Law V, after at least 60 minutes of play, will be declared an official game. The score at the time of stoppage will be the final score unless the game is declared forfeited upon review.

17. A game stopped by the referee under FIFA Law V, before at least 60 minutes of play, must be replayed, unless the game is declared forfeited upon review.

18. Both teams are responsible for calling in the results of the game, including postponements and referee-no-shows, to their division's commissioner within 48 hours after the game time. Unusual conditions or problems are part of the results that must be reported.

19. The burden of rescheduling a postponed game will rest with the team that originally postponed it. If the two teams are unable to decide upon a date, the MWSL Commissioner will set one. The Commissioner must declare a forfeit if one or both of the teams fail to appear on the date scheduled.

Note: Time will start 5 minutes after the scheduled start time if less than 8 players from one team are present. If there are less than 8 players from one team present after 15 minutes, the game is considered a forfeit by the short team. Time will be deducted from the first half only, a full second half of 45 minutes will be played if game is not forfeited.

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 Game Day Procedures:

Things your team must do at each game:
    • Player passes are required for every game. You must have them to play. Any issues relating to cards must be cleared through the MWSL Board, BEFORE THE DAY OF THE GAME.
    • Personal Equipment:
      • Everyone must wear shinguards, and the shinguards must be covered by socks.
      • Team jerseys must be one color (or as close as possible!). They must have a number on the back
      • The HOME team must have alternate color jerseys, in case both teams are the same color.
    • Team Equipment:
      • Nets (HOME team)
      • Corner flags (HOME team)
      • Game Ball (HOME team)
      • Team roster (This must be supplied by both teams at EACH GAME)
      • Payment for the referee (Both teams *)
      • Ref fees have not changed this year. Each team pays half of the total fees, unless there is a forfeit. If your team forfeits a game, you are responsible for ALL referees fees. The fees are:

3 referees: total $120, each team pays $60

2 referees: total $100, each team pays $50

1 referee: total $60, each team pays $30

 
    • Official game start time is 6:45 p.m, except where noted on the schedule. If your game has not started by 7:00, the game is forfeit! Referees will start the clock at 5 minutes after the scheduled game time. Please check the times on the schedule carefully as we have quite a few games that will start at some time other than 6:45.
    • After the game, BOTH teams are required to notify the commissioner of the result within 48 hours of the game. You can phone in the result to the MWSL Hotline (651) 633-1211 or e-mail them to the commissioner. Please notify us of any exceptionally good or exceptionally poor referees. If you email the commissioner, please use both home and work emails.
    • If you must reschedule a game, BOTH teams are required to notify the commissioner, either via e-mail or at her home and work number, indicating the agreed-upon date, time and location. The game is not officially rescheduled until you have received an acknowledgement from the MWSL Board!

If there was an injury or a red-card, you must fill out a game report and mail it to the MWSL Post Office Box ASAP.

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