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HANDBOOK & RULEBOOK SEASON 2020-2021 FA Charter Standard League of the Year FA Respect Silver Reward Winner HARROW YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE (FA CHARTER STANDARD LEAGUE) (Sanctioned by Middlesex Football Association) Founded 1942 SEASON 2020-2021 Contents Page Officers and Management Committee 4 Club and Management Committee Meetings 5 Summary Information 6 Players Registration and Transfer Procedures 7 Procedures to be Followed During Inclement Weather 8 Summary Schedule 9 Notes for Clubs 10 Notes for Match Officials 12 League Honours 16 Divisional Composition 2020-2021 24 Club Directory 2020-2021 28 Referee’s Panel 2020-2021 54 Safeguarding Children and Equality Policy 60 Officers Roll of Honour 63 League Champions and Runners-Up 66 League Challenge Cup Final Results 75 Rule Book 79 Issued - September 2020 1 The Harrow Youth Football League and all its member clubs support The FA’s Respect programme. We recognise that everyone in football has a collective responsibility to create a fair, safe and enjoyable environment in which the game can take place. We value the courtesy and fairness by all players, officials and spectators. We seek all matches to be played in a fair and competitive but not antagonistic environment. 2 HARROW YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE FA COMMUNITY AWARDS “NATIONAL CHARTER STANDARD LEAGUE OF THE YEAR” (ALSO AWARD WINNER AT MIDDLESEX FA AND LONDON & SOUTH EAST REGIONAL LEVELS) (Also see page 20) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FA RESPECT PROGRAMME “NATIONAL SILVER REWARD WINNER” (Also see page 19) 3 HARROW YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE President Fixture Secretary and Paul Stevens Referees’ Officer 1 Chenies Green, Thorley Park, Bishops Judi Grice, 320 West End Road, Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 4HJ South Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 6RD Tel. (m) 07941 146011 Tel. (m) 07930 748473 (Email) [email protected] (Email) [email protected] Vice-Presidents Management Committee P.W. Abbott, K.M. Chamberlin, All League Officers (except Vice P.J. Clayton, A.E. Lowe, L. O’Connor, Presidents), and D.Stevens, P.A. Stevens, E. Webster. Fred Allen Tom Atkinson Chairman Alan Barrett Andy Lowe, 21 Downs Avenue, Jason Downes Pinner, Middlesex HA5 5AQ Ian Eeles Tel. (m) 07720 555415 Jason Hunter (Email) [email protected] Robbie Kettle Annette McCorkill Vice-Chairman Luke Partington Derek Stevens, 37 Islay Crescent, Peter Proverbs Highworth, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 7HL Kieran Quinn Tel. (h) 01793 763136 Roy Smith Executive Officer (Comprising: Secretary, Treasurer, Administration Secretary, Registration Secretary, Results Secretary, Match Form Secretary and Welfare Officer) Andy Lowe, 21 Downs Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 5AQ Tel. (m) 07720 555415 (Email) [email protected] [email protected] 4 CLUB MEETINGS Your attendance is required at the League Club Meetings noted below, under League rules. Until further notice, or unless advised otherwise, these meetings will be held ‘virtually’ by means of video/conference call facilities, and not in person. All meetings will start at 7.00pm Monday 28th September 2020 Monday 18th January 2021 Monday 14th June 2021 (Including the Annual General Meeting) - other dates will be added as and when necessary. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETINGS These will be held during the course of the season; with dates to be advised in due course. CHALLENGE CUP FINAL DATES Provisionally, these will be held on Sunday 25th April; Sunday 2nd May; and Monday 3rd May. 5 SUMMARY INFORMATION MATCH RESULTS ALL MATCH RESULTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE RESULTS’ SERVICE NO LATER THAN 5.30PM ON MATCH DAY PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE IT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE 1. TELEPHONE NUMBER - 01895 717517 (lines open between 12 noon and 5.30 pm on match day). When you get a ringing tone hang-on until answered; if you hang-up you will go to the back of the queue. 2. TEXT/SMS NUMBER - 07797 800102 (lines open until 5.30pm on match day). 3. E-MAIL: [email protected] (lines open until 5.30 pm on match day). Please include all details in the body of the email and not in an attachment. Please note that the email might take some time to get through the network. When communicating the results (through any of the above mentioned methods), please provide the following information clearly and legibly, where applicable): • Age-Group • Division or Cup Competition • Full Name of the Home Team and the Number of Goals Scored • Full Name of the Away Team and the Number of Goals Scored MATCH RESULT FORMS / UNPLAYED FIXTURE FORMS All match result forms and unplayed/defaulted fixture forms must be fully completed and submitted online by every team through the following website (within two days of the match) www.hyfl.website FIXTURES, MATCH RESULTS AND LEAGUE TABLES ON THE NET All Fixtures, Match Results and League Tables can be accessed on the following website: www.firsteleven.co.uk/harrow FIXTURES The following procedures have been put in place for the 2020-2021 season, in order to contact the Fixture Secretary - Judi Grice. Only the one named Club fixture secretary may contact Judi - no other Club members, managers or parents may do so. • Queries: 07930 748473 • All queries for matches further than 7 days in advance should be placed in writing and notified to Judi by email. • Queries by E-mail to: [email protected] 6 PLAYER REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER PROCEDURES Full details are given in the User Guide (which must be read in conjunction with this summary note); along with the League Rules. Registration of each of your players (for each team), must be done through the website: www.hyfl.website. On the page for player registration, please enter (completely and accurately) the player’s full first name and surname, along with their date of birth. Also, please upload/attach the following to the database (a) a current (taken within 4-6 weeks of registering the player) passport-sized photograph of the play- er, that meets the minimum quality standards as given in the User Guide (and portrait format); and (b) evidence of the player’s date of birth - such as last season’s player laminate ID card, passport, birth certificate, or other official document, each meeting the standards as given in the User Guide. Once this is done and you wish to submit the registration, you will be asked to confirm that all the data entered is complete and accurate. Certain checks will be undertaken by the system and, if all of them are passed, then a player registration number for the season will be automatically generated by the system. Only upon the correct completion of all the above-mentioned procedures and the issuance of a valid player registration number will the player be duly registered for your club/team. Clubs may register players up until Saturday-midnight for the Sunday match. The maximum number of players, who can be registered at any point of time, per team, is 20 (25 for the U/17 and the U/18 age groups). The final date for registering/transferring players is Sunday 28th February 2021. Once a player is validly registered, clubs will have the facility to print a detailed report of the player, comprising all of the entered personal details, the uploaded photograph and the registration number, from the system. A personalised player laminate ID card will be subsequently issued by the League to clubs for each registered player. A player can register for only one club/team at a time, for any one Sunday competition across England. A club may seek to cancel a player’s registration, at any time, by notifying the League AND returning the player laminate ID card to the League. Upon the receipt of these, the League will then cancel the registration on the system, and notify the club of such action. Until ALL of these procedures are completed, the player shall remain a registered player for that club. A club/team may seek to transfer a player to them by first writing to the club with whom the player is current registered (copying in the League too) and seeking permission for the said player to be transferred. The League, after receipt of such permission AND the player laminate ID card being returned to and being received by the League, will effect the transfer and update the system, taking the player off the old club/team’s record and adding the player to the new club/team’s record. Until ALL of these procedures are completed and the League has provided a written confirmation to the clubs/teams concerned of such actions, then the player shall not be considered to be transferred and shall remain a registered player for his old club/team. This procedure also applies to the transfer between teams within the same club. All player laminate ID cards MUST be made available at all matches. In cases where such cards have not yet been received by the club, a printed copy report (downloaded from the system) of the details of all registered players MUST be made available at all matches. For the avoidance of doubt, electronic copies of such cards/reports via computer, ipad, iphone, etc. is NOT acceptable. All clubs/teams must check their opponent’s cards/reports at all matches in the League. If a club/team fails to provide the cards/reports at the match, the game shall still take place. However, the club/team in default shall arrange for each player to write his/her name on a piece of paper along with their date of birth in the presence of the opposing team. The opposing team must then submit this to the League for checking. Please read the League Rules in detail which, in the case of any inconsistency with the above, shall fully apply.