Your team needs a net for your games. Each team brings a net to the game. You put your net up, you vigorously defend your net from being attacked by your opponent, and then, at the conclusion of the game, you remove your net and take it home. Be kind to your net, as it is yours to have and to hold. If you don’t have a net, we can get you one for $45. No, we don’t buy it back.

 

We don’t have portable toilets at the fields. The city doesn’t let us put them at neighborhood parks, the schools don’t want them. And there’s problems with the health department if we put them at Bullhead. So stop between work and the field to “do your thing.”

 

You must submit a roster form to the referee before the game. The roster form is available for download in Excel or PDF on the Summer Coed Soccer page on the web site.

 

All of the players on a team must wear the same color shirt as all of the other players on the same team. For example, if you are Manchester United and you elect to wear red shirts, all players who are on your team Manchester United must wear red shirts when they play their weekly soccer game in ASL summer coed soccer. We’ve tried to make this as clear as possible. They do not have to be numbered. The following is a list of colors, as an example, that we consider being the same color and colors we consider being different. This does not mean your team can’t wear white shirts or blue shirt, or green shirts or black shirts or yellow shirts or purple shirts. It means that if your team is wearing red shirts, red and white are not the same color. Nonetheless, someone will call the office and ask if it is against league rules to wear white or blue, etc….

 

Same color:                  red and red (i.e., all players wearing red shirts)

 

Different colors:            red and white (i.e., some players wearing red, some wearing white)

                                        red and blue

                                        red and green

                                        red and black

                                        red and yellow

                                        red and purple

 

You must submit a roster before each game.. Everyone participating in the game must be listed on the roster. We have no limit on the number of people you can bring to a game. If you require 30 finely-tuned athletic machines to wheeze and gasp through a 90-minute game, so be it.

If a player is booked for misconduct, the referee will request the player’s name. If the player refuses to provide their name, we then attempt to ascertain who that player is. If we cannot do so, we will dispose of your team.  If the player is sent off (issued a red card), that player is required to leave the field complex at which the game is played.  That means going at least to the parking lot and staying there.  If the player will not leave or spends the remainder of the game shouting back at thed referee, the referee is instructed to terminate the game and return all of the team's passcards to the league office.  The player will be removed from any further participation in the summer competition and further actions may be taken by the League Executive Committee.  We do not need anyone on any team to get the referee's name for us.  We already know the referee's name.  If you have a complaint about the referee, you do not need the referee's name in order to send us your complaint.

 

We are enclosing a list of players from previous seasons who received red cards. Those players get to post a $ 50 bond to play this season. A few people managed to get multiple red cards. Those players get to post $ 50 for each red card they have received. We’ve made a change to the bond policy. Players who receive red cards for serious foul play, violent conduct, and any form of misconduct towards referees must post the $50 bond. Players sent off for any other reason must sit their suspension and pay their outstanding fines. 

 

If the player receives a red card while playing under bond, the player forfeits their bond and is removed for the remainder of the summer and the next year of coed soccer. The point of this effort is to have fun. We have no interest in providing a venue for people whose agenda includes screeching and cursing at the referee, fighting, or engaging in foul play. We have a new form available for anyone who has to post a bond so they can sign up knowing what happens if their behavior doesn’t change.

 

First Team listed in the schedule is the home team. If shirt colors do not clash, the home team changes colors.

 

Games played to halftime are complete games if canceled for inclement or dangerous weather.

 

Game time for all games is 6:15 p.m. with a 15 minute grace period to get 7 players. When you have seven players, the game starts.

 

Shirts do not have to be numbered. Everyone on the team has to wear the same color shirt except the goalkeeper.

 

Check the schedule for games in which you will have a color problem. ASL has scrimmage vests available for your use. Call the League to pick them up for your game. Also, odd as this idea may sound, please bring them back. Someone else may need them. They are not intended to be your permanent uniforms. However, for $15 a shirt, you can get some just like them from SCORE.

 

It is against the law to bring alcohol on school property. It is legal to bring alcohol to Bullhead Park.

 

If the sprinklers come on, we can’t tell from the office. You have to call us and tell us. Then we can call APS for the tenth time to ask them to turn them off.

 

If your game doesn’t get played, we don’t know that unless (1) we wait three weeks for the referee report or (2) you call us and tell us. Option (2) will alert us to this much more quickly than will option (1).