Each team received a practice park form with their fall registration package.  About half the teams bother to complete them and return them.  If you do not, the City Parks Department does not show you as being affiliated with an organization entitled to use the parks for soccer practice and will ask you to leave.  The City of Albuquerque manages the park operation for city parks and certain school facilities, including elementary and middle school fields.  They do not handle high school fields or county fields or the Balloon Fiesta park.

When it comes to practice fields, we do not have enough fields to take care of everyone’s needs. Therefore, you’re going to be squeezed when it comes to finding space. You get to share. Don’t call the League to let us know someone is playing on “your” field. The youth and adult leagues are adding at least a hundred teams a year, and no one is adding parks. If that disturbs you, contact your city councilor or county commissioner. In the meantime, you get to share.

 

Do not practice in the goalmouth. Do not play full field scrimmages. Do not get in a fight with someone from another organization over the field. If that situation arises, call the League and we will take it up with the city and have a park monitor dispatched to deal with the situation. If a park monitor asks you who your team is, please treat the person with the same respect with which you expect to be treated. They have a job to do, too. And if you aren’t set up to be on that field, you’ll be asked to leave and get your reservation form in to the League. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.