27. Invitation Cup Rules
The Kent Youth League and Cup Rules with the following additional Rules shall apply:
10 Qualification and Registration of Players
(a)
Only those players are eligible to take part who have not reached the
age of 18 years’ before the last day of August of the current season.
(b)
All players must sign a Kent Youth League Registration Form before
playing unless they have already signed a Kent Youth League
Registration Form, except those clubs being invited into the
competition who will pay a block registration fee.
(c) Non-contract
players may be registered up to the time of kick-off providing the
Registration Form is correctly completed and countersigned by an
opposing team official.
(d) Receipt of the Registration Forms shall
be acknowledged by the Registration Secretary by return to the club of
the registration slip; where this is not received by the club within
10 days’ of the despatch of the registration forms the Club shall
advise the Registration Secretary.
(e) Any bona-fide player of the
Club shall be allowed to take part in the Competition but no player
shall be allowed to play for more than one club, in this Competition,
in the current season, but the players of any team may be changed
during the series of matches.
(f) In the case of postponed, or
replayed matches, only those players shall be allowed to play who were
eligible to play on the date fixed for the original match.
(g) If
the committee has any doubt as to the qualification or age of any
player taking part in the Competition, it has powers to call upon such
a player, or the club to which he belongs, or for which he played to
prove that he is qualified to the Rules by production of his birth
certificate or other documentary evidence.
(h) Any club playing an
unregistered or otherwise ineligible player in a Kent Youth League
Invitation Cup match may be removed from the Competition, and fined a sum to be decided by the Competition.11 Fixtures.
(a)
All matches shall be mutually arranged, priority being given to
Football Association and County Football Association Competitions.
(b)
Where a match is postponed the Home Club shall telephone the Referee
and Referee’s Assistants, the Secretary of the opposing club, and
confirm in writing immediately to the Chief Executive of the
Competition.
(c) When the date for playing a tie has been mutually
agreed between the two clubs the Home side must immediately notify the
Chief Executive of the Competition.
(d) At least 14 days’ before the
match the Home Club must send details of ground etc. including
directions, both by road and public transport, to their opponents and
all three officials. Each of the latter must acknowledge the
notification of the appointment at least five days’ before the match.
(e) All matches shall be decided on the day i.e. extra time and kicks from the penalty mark where necessary. (See Cup Rule 6).
12 Finance.
(a) In the Final Tie all net proceeds shall be paid into League Funds.
13 Any points not covered by these Rules shall be decided by the Management Committee.
