B.C.F.A. NEW DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES
Season 2011-2012
Clubs should note BCFA have not fully completed the detail,
so information may change.
Report of
Presentation made by BCFA Officials at the League Meeting on
May 23rd 2011.
Report prepared by Jack Underhill (Secretary Attleboro
Potters FC)
Those of
you who were not at the league meeting on Monday May 23rd,
will have missed out on BCFA Discipline chief Mike Fellows'
presentation on the new match based discipline system. The
new system will come into effect for the 2011/12 season.
The main crux of it is that when a player is banned
following a red card, consecutive cautions or serious
misconduct, they will be banned for a number of games
instead of days. This is to bring our step 7 football in to
code with the rest of football in the UK.
The following will be my attempt to
explain the system.
Let's begin with the Standard
red card offences:
Violent Conduct -
Kicking out at a player, throwing a punch at a player,
shoving a player to the ground - 3 game ban.
Abusive Language - Any
form of swearing, it doesn't have to be aimed at anyone. If
a referee deems it a red card offence - 2 game ban.
Goalscoring Opportunity
- Denying the chance, handling the ball on the line, last
man etc - 1 game
This is the ban which will accompany the standard fine which
has not been set yet. Any of these charges cannot be
appealed verbally. The appeal charge at county stands at
£100.00. I'd suggest that any of these standard red card
offences means the standard ban will be coming.
Secretaries must then notify County of the games that said
player is to miss. The games are to be nominated 21 days
after the fixture from which the offence took place.
Standard charges only apply to the day the offence was
committed. A player receiving a standard red card on a
Sunday will NOT be
banned on a Saturday and vice versa.
The player is banned for all of the clubs fixtures until he
has missed the amount of games required for the team he was
carded for. For example, if a player is banned for the
reserve team, the fixtures nominated must be for the reserve
team. Even if the reserves have free weeks whilst the first
team do not, that is just tough luck.
BCFA spokesperson did say that
this may be addressed in time for the season so that that
scenario will mean games for the club and not the team.
Clubs are to nominate fixtures that pertain to that league
or county. League games, Divisional cups, Tribune Cup, Pete
Smith cup. Outside Charity Cups are exempt. A banned player
could play in an Outside Charity cup game.
Continued misconduct
A player will be banned for 1 game if they recieve
5 cautions in the season. 2 games for 10, 3 games for 15 and
so on. Bookings are expunged on Dec 31st. A player with 4
cautions on December 30th will still have 4 cautions on
January 1st. However, their ban will not occur until the
10th booking, where that would count as a 1 game ban.
This does not apply for a player with 2 red cards. A second
red card for any one player in a season will be met by an
increased fine for continued misconduct. There is no
December 31st levy, it only applies to cautions.
Any team who receives 6 cautions in any one match could
result in the club being fined an amount likely to be
£150.00. Should that happen again, then the fine will be
doubled. The message there is to keep your players in check
or face heavy fines.
Serious Misconduct
This applies to the charges which the FA to be
deems most serious.
Any instances of these scenarios will be met with an
immediate ban (no 21 days after) from the FA of an
undisclosed amount of games. This ban WILL cover Saturday
and Sundays. A ban from all other football also applies.
Works leagues, leisure leagues, charity cups.
Spitting - £50.00 - In addition to ban
Serious foul play - £25.00 - In addition to ban.
Intended physical assault, not a spur of the moment flash of
madness, a pre-mediated attack.
Abusive language - £25.00 - In addition to ban - Aimed in
the general direction of a match official, racial abuse or
any continued verbal attack on a member of the opposition or
your own club. This includes any random spectators at the
ground too.
Any offence follwing a standard red card offence will become
serious misconduct. For example, if a player is sent off for
denying a goal scoring opportunity is then goaded by the
opposition and he smacks that member of the opposition, or
feels the need to tell the referee what he thinks of the
decision and him. That player may find himself facing a
serious misconduct charge, on top of his standard charge.
Postponements & Abandonment's
Postponements - Should a game be postponed you must resubmit
the games a banned player will miss to county.
Abandonment's - Should a game be abandoned (even after 89
mins) that game can NOT
count as one of a players missed games and you must resubmit
your games for a banned player to miss to county. All
cautions from that game however, WILL still apply as usual.
Split Suspensions
- If a player is banned at the end of a season. It is
up to the club to notify that player that his ban will still
apply at the beginning of the new season. If the player has
moved clubs, he will be banned for that new club for the
number of fixtures, previously agreed by his former club.
Any bans that have occurred at the end of this season will
still fall under the old system at the start of the next.
The message is clear... BEHAVE!
May we
thank Jack for preparing the report.
Alan Aucott
Chairman - NDSFL
