Referee's Course
REFEREE
BEGINNERS COURSE which will be held at WILLOWBANK YOUTH CLUB, Falls Road,
Belfast .
The venue is situated on the Falls Road, left hand side
leaving Belfast ,
beside the OK Windows shop. Its signposted down a lane way.
The course will take place on Sunday 28 June and 5 July,
starting at 11.00am and running until about 17.00hrs
There is no need to pre book a place, simply turn up and
register on the first morning.
Cost is £50 which includes your referee registration
fee for next season.
The only materials you need are pen/paper, everything else
is supplied.
If this date/venue is not suitable I will keep you informed
by e mail when we have more dates/venues organized in the early part of next
season.
Match Cards
ID NUMBERS and SHIRT NUMBERS must be filled in on match cards teams not doing so will be fined and risk loosing the points if they are the winners of a match. Managers may think this all unnecessary but there have already been reports of ringers and overage players and the correct filling in of the card, with ID numbers, shirt numbers and proper signatures, helps stamp this out.
IFA YOUTH CERTIFICATE
IFA
YOUTH CERTIFICATE
(Leading
to UEFA B Licence Award)
Saturday
17 June – Monday 29 June 2009
Stranmillis University
College, Belfast
There are places available on
the IFA Youth Certificate Course to be held from Saturday 27 June to Monday 29
June 2009 at Stranmillis University College,
Belfast.
This is a new course designed
specifically to meet the needs of coaches working with young players ages 12 to
16. Coaches can use this course as part
of their process towards achieving the UEFA ‘B’ Licence, as the IFA Youth
Certificate will count as half of the ‘B’ Licence. Coaches who successfully complete the Youth
Certificate can, if they wish, enrol on the UEFA ‘B’ Licence the following year
and will only be required to do 3 days, rather than the full 6 days which is
the standard requirement for the UEFA ‘B’ Licence.
Minimum criteria to enrol on
this course is the IFA ‘C’ Certificate.
CARRICK V CARRYDUFF
THANK YOU
Carrick U16 would like to express their thanks to to Carryduff U16 for all the help they provided when one of their players suffered a broken leg.
THANKS
Ballymoney -v- Crumlin Utd
Saturday 2nd May, 2009
We at Ballymoney Utd Youth Academy would like to convey our thanks to
the referee John McCready, members of the public and the coaches of
Crumlin Utd for their assistance on Saturday when a player of
Ballymoney was injured due to a collision of heads during the match.
The player involved ended up in the RVH. We would especially like to
thank the referee for his quick actions in administering first aid to
the player. He should be highly commended for his actions. This also
highlights a great need for first aid attendance at all matches. The
player was released from hospital on Saturday and is recovering well at
home. Ever grateful
Jackie McBride (father of the player) and one of the coaches of
Ballymoney Utd.
OLYMPIA & ASHFIELD
METAL STUDS
Both the management of Olympia Leisure Centre and Ashfield School
have asked the League to ensure that metal studs are not worn on their pitches.
If players are seen wearing boots with metal studs the team will be turned away
and the league will treat this as a non-appearance and team responsible will loose the
points and have to pay for the pitch and referee’s fees.
REPORTING RESULTS AND RETURN OF MATCH CARDS
Match results must
be reported to the league office before 1.30pm on Saturday. It is
helpful if both managers report the result but manager of the winning
team must report
the result on Saturday and is responsible for the return of the match
card. Only the blue match cards with 2008-2009 season on them will be
accepted. It is the responsibility of the home team to provide a match
card and any home team not using the proper card will be fined.
ID CARDS 2008/2009
ID CARDS 2008/2009
All players must be registered for the 2008-2009 season and
have their 2007/2008 ID cards revalidated and stamped and under 14's must have
a new ID cards before they can play. Passports or Citizen ID cards will
the only form of identification accepted for Under 14's and above. Application
forms for a Citizen ID cards can be obtained from www.citizencard.com
cards can take up to 21 days to arrive.
ID cards must be exchanged before the match starts any team not having ID
cards will forfeit the match.
ID card numbers and shirt numbers must be
entered on the match card. While ID numbers and shirt numbers do not have to
correspond it would be helpful if they did.
PITCH FEES
Pitch Fees Increase
The following venues have increase their charges starting from 1/12/08
Civil Service Grounds - £14 per team
Ashfield Secondary School - £15 per team
Olympia Leisure Centre £15 per team
Details of Belfast City Council pitch cancellations can be found at: www.belfastcity.gov.uk/sportspitches
Official Football Merchandise.
For Official Football Merchandise go to
www.footballhouse.co.uk
