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Neafl & Afl Sydney Player Interchange Agreement PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 NEAFL & AFL SYDNEY PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 Version 1.1 PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 1. Background Introduction This document aims to outline the movement and alignment of players between the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) and the AFL Sydney Premier Division Competition for the 2020 season. The NEAFL and AFL Sydney agree to review the operation of this document at the end of each season. Definitions a) “NEAFL Club” means the Sydney University Australian National Football Club. b) “AFL Club” means the Sydney Swans and/or GWS Giants c) “AFL Sydney Clubs” means any of the following clubs: 1. Camden Australian Football Club 2. East Coast Eagles Australian Football Club 3. Inner West Australian Football Club 4. Manly-Warringah Australian Football Club 5. North Shore Australian Football Club 6. Pennant Hills Australian Football Club 7. St George Australian Football Club 8. University of Technology Sydney Australian Football Club 9. University of New South Wales / Eastern Suburbs Australian Football Club d) “NEAFL Players” means Primary Listed Players and Development List Players. PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 e) “Primary List Players” means all players on the Sydney University NEAFL list of thirty five (35) players. f) “Development List Players” means all players on the Sydney University NEAFL Development list of up to five (5) players. To be eligible to be placed on the Development List a player must: i. be under the age of 21 as at January 1 of the relevant season; ii. have played less than twenty (20) NEAFL (or equivalent) games prior to the start of the upcoming season (NEAFL games played as a top-up player for an AFL Club are not included towards eligibility). g) “Scholarship Player” means a player who: i. is currently studying an undergraduate or post graduate degree at Sydney University; and ii. receiving a financial SUSF scholarship of at least $4,000.00 (not including general benefits of the SUANFC NEAFL program), during the relevant season. h) “Club of Origin” means an AFL Sydney Premier Division Club that a NEAFL Player has registered for in a previous season. 2. Player Club of Origin 2.1 Any Sydney University NEAFL Player who is recruited from an AFL Sydney Premier Division club (Club of Origin), can be automatically aligned back to that AFL Sydney Premier Division club should the player elect that club as their club of choice. 2.2 Any Sydney University NEAFL Player recruited from outside of AFL Sydney Premier Division who previously played for a Club of Origin can be automatically aligned back to that club should the player elect to do so. 2.3 Any Sydney University NEAFL Player who was aligned to an AFL Sydney Premier Division club in a previous season may choose to be automatically realigned to that club. PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 2.4 In the event a former registered NEAFL player has not been a registered in the NEAFL for more than 12 months, but has previously been aligned to an AFL Sydney Premier Division club through the Mini Draft, they will be entered back into the Mini Draft unless the player submits an application to AFL NSW/ACT to be pre-aligned to that AFL Sydney Premier Division club, in which case AFL NSW/ACT will determine the application in its absolute discretion. 2.5 Players who do not elect to align to their Club of Origin, or the AFL Sydney Premier Division club they were previously aligned to, will enter the Mini Draft in accordance with Clause 5. 2.6 NEAFL Scholarship Players may choose to either be aligned to their Club of Origin or Sydney University Premier Division for that season only. 2.7 NEAFL Players who are ‘dual club players’ pursuant to the NEAFL Rules and Regulations and are not selected by Sydney University will be eligible to be selected to play for their aligned AFL Club’s NEAFL team as per the NEAFL Rules and Regulations. The order of priority for ‘dual club’ players is: State League Club (i.e. Sydney University) > Aligned AFL Club NEAFL team (i.e. Sydney Swans/GWS Giants) > AFL Sydney Premier Division Club. 3. NEAFL List Amendments 3.1 NEAFL Clubs are permitted to make up to five (5) list amendments prior to June 30 each season each season pursuant to the NEAFL Rules and Regulations. 3.2 Any player added to a NEAFL Club’s list via a list amendment that does not have a Club of Origin will be aligned to an AFL Sydney Premier Division club via the next active selection in the Mini Draft. 4. Players 4.1 No officer, agent or servant of an AFL Sydney Club shall contact or interview a registered player of an NEAFL Club for the purpose of gaining the services of that player as a footballer without first seeking written permission from the NEAFL Club with which the player is registered. PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 4.2 The AFL NSW/ACT State Manager – Football, Policy & Major Projects and/or the AFL Sydney Competition Management Committee will have the final say in any dispute between NEAFL and AFL Sydney Clubs. 4.3 The NEAFL Club must provide as a minimum a squad of 27 players (with the four (4) likely emergencies identified) to AFL Sydney Premier Division clubs who have aligned NEAFL listed players by 5pm of the Thursday prior to the upcoming weekend fixture. 4.4 NEAFL Development List players can play NEAFL football at any stage of the season regardless of list implications including, ‘without being required to be on the Primary List’. 4.5 NEAFL Players who have an AFL Sydney Club of Origin must register with their Club of Origin. The NEAFL Club must request a Type 2 - Local Interchange Permit to the NEAFL Club from the Club of Origin. All other NEAFL Primary and Development Listed players must register with the NEAFL Club and the aligned club shall request a Type 2 - Local Interchange Permit. 5. Mini Draft 5.1 The Mini Draft is a process for aligning NEAFL Players to AFL Sydney Premier Division Clubs. 5.2 The Mini Draft will be conducted on an annual basis prior to the start of the NEAFL and AFL Sydney Premier Division season, whichever comes first. The date of the Mini Draft will be determined by AFL Sydney in conjunction with the NEAFL which must occur after NEAFL List lodgement deadline and seven (7) days’ notice has been provided to the NEAFL Club. 5.3 NEAFL Players who are not a Scholarship Player or do not have an AFL Sydney Club of Origin will be required to enter the Mini Draft. 5.4 NEAFL Players who are aligned to an AFL Sydney club via the Mini Draft process may elect at their own discretion to re-enter the Mini Draft at the beginning of each subsequent season they are on a NEAFL list. The players previous AFL Sydney club would not be allowed to re-select the player with any Mini Draft PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 selection(s). 5.5 Subject to Clause 5.6, AFL Sydney Premier Division clubs shall have the right to select a Mini Draft player, in turn, in the reverse order of the position in which they finished at the end of the previous Home & Away season (‘the selection order’). 5.6 The AFL Sydney Competition Management Committee in its discretion may provide a Premier Division club with one or more priority selections. 5.7 If an AFL Sydney Premier Division club passes on a ‘live’ draft selection in the Mini Draft that selection falls to the club with the next pick in the Mini Draft. The club who passed will not have the opportunity to further select a Mini Draft player until all other clubs have had the opportunity to make a selection in accordance with the selection order. 6. Relegation of Player – other than injury or discipline 6.1 Any NEAFL Player not selected to play in the NEAFL, for reasons other than injury, illness or suspension (as advised by the NEAFL Club to AFL NSW/ACT) is to play Premier Division Senior Grade for their aligned AFL Sydney Club. 6.2 On receipt of an application for transfer of a player under Clause 6.1, the AFL Sydney Football Operations Manager must offer the services of that player to each other AFL Sydney aligned club and/or to clubs which require further on- field support. This action is taken at the discretion of the AFL Sydney Football Operations Manager and/or Competition Management Committee. 6.3 Where an AFL Sydney Club has an opportunity to register a transferred player during a season, as per Clause 6.1, and declines to do so, that AFL Sydney Club will not be precluded from taking the transfer of another player during that season. 7. Eligibility of players from NEAFL Clubs to play for AFL Sydney Clubs 7.1 Communication and Consultation must transpire between the NEAFL Club and their aligned AFL Sydney Clubs to duly consider and negotiate the field PLAYER INTERCHANGE AGREEMENT Season 2020 positioning, workload and development of players prior to their selection by AFL Sydney clubs. The initial weekly communication will come from the NEAFL Senior Coach. 7.2 A NEAFL Player, whom is ruled unfit by a NEAFL Club’s medical officer to play in a round of NEAFL matches, will be ineligible for selection and must not be listed on the Official Team Sheet of any AFL Sydney Club in any match played in the concurrent round of AFL Sydney matches.
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