RED RIVER NPL POLICIES & EXPECTATIONS
MEMBERSHIP
Membership in the Red River NPL is an annual membership, and is contingent upon compliance with all rules, regulations, and policies of the Red River NPL and US Club NPL. Your club has been conditionally approved as a member club of the Red River NPL for the 2018-2019 seasonal year. This conditional membership is subject to your club’s agreement to the terms and conditions outlined in the 2018-2019 NPL Commitment Agreement (below). Your club’s membership will remain subject to compliance with all terms and conditions set forth in the agreement, and with all rules, regulations and policies of the Red River NPL and US Club NPL National rules. Member clubs may be sanctioned for non compliance, including consequences up to removal from the Red River NPL, by the NPL Red River League Operating Committee.
COMPETITIION STANDARDS
Each club will participate at minimum one team from each age division in both boys and girls for each of the following age divisions: 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U, 17U, and 18/19U.
Each club will require each representative team to complete EVERY scheduled match. By committing to this agreement is committing to the Red River NPL play dates.
Each club will ensure it’s teams are not scheduled for tournament play, showcase events, state cups, high school sports, testing dates, or other functions that will interfere with the NPL play dates.
Each club will guarantee that it’s representative teams, if they win to advance within the league play-off system, will participate, or if they advance beyond the Red River league to US Club postseason pathways will participate.
Each club will ensure all teams are compliant with registration, roster, and club pass rules pertaining to NPL participation.
GAME HOSTING STANDARDS
Each club will furnish minimally the following IF they are hosting a play weekend:
Full Sized Field properly lined, mowed, with proper goals, nets, corner flags
Full referee crew properly certified, to arrive no later than 20 mins prior to kick-off
Certified Athletic Trainer on site for all games at minimum 1 hour prior to game 1 kick-off
One club official to serve as “site coordinator” for the hosting facility
Facility with restrooms, adequate parking, and weather evacuation plan in place
Each club is recommended to provide the following for each game:
Water Station field side
Team Tents field side
Spare referee in case of injury
Staff or 4th official to manage pass cards and substitutions at halfway line
Signage with league branding
ANNUAL FEES
The following fees are required to support the league programs and operations for the Red River NPL:
2018-19 Member Club Annual Deposit, $2,000: This will serve as a good faith deposit and will be held until the team deadline of July 15th when teams will have applied and paid.
2018-19 Team Fee - $800 per team, due July 15th.
2018-19 Additional Costs: There will be individual application fees for Spring League Cups and Community Shield events, as well as any NPL supported Showcase events. All costs associated with regular season game hosting will be the responsibility of the home-team club.
COMMITMENT AGREEMENT
It is the responsibility of each of the signing parties to notify the other in the event that a commitment cannot be met and to initiate timely efforts at rectifying any inability to meet the commitments expressed in this document.
This agreement is due by no later than June 15, 2018. And payment due no later than July 15, 2018.
By signing this document, signatories, as representatives of their respective club programs are certifying that the content herein is acceptable and that on behalf of their club they will ensure implementation of the standards set forth in this agreement by those over whom they have authority within their club program.
EXHIBIT A: NPL RED RIVER RESCHEDULE POLICY
1. Each member club will designate the following staff with contact phone numbers, and emails, who will be charged with being accessible and responsive to communication through the season:
a) NPL Club Administrator
b) Facility Hosting Coordinator
c) Club Technical Director
2. Play-Determination Deadlines:
a) Less than 100 miles – minimum 10 hours prior to kick-off
b) Over 100 miles – minimum 24 hours prior to kick-off
c) Over 150 miles – minimum 10 pm the day prior to travel (i.e. if kick-off is Saturday, then notification of cancelation is required Thursday by 10 pm)
All clubs will attempt to secure at minimum two synthetic turf field options as back-ups to weather related field surface issues.
Club’s agree to communicate by Wednesday 10 am weekly on upcoming travel events with regards to weather.
3. Once the play-determination deadline has passed without notification of a cancelation from a hosting club, the matches must be hosted by the host club, with the only exception becoming safety issues determined at the site (i.e. lightning, tornado, etc).
4. Travel Partner Situations: In any case that a Saturday match is canceled (due to weather) in which the traveling club was to participate in, the subsequent Sunday fixture will likewise be canceled.
a) If either host club of a travel weekend elects to cancel, both travel partner hosts will be forced to cancel.
b) Travel partner hosts are strongly encouraged to collaborate on field closure decisions.
5. Teams agree to utilize pre-scheduled rain-out dates in the annual calendar to make up any fixtures canceled due to weather.
6. Once the play-determination deadlines pass, host clubs may not cancel or close facilities to preserve facilities. Clubs have agreed to assess that risk and make decisions ahead of the play-determination deadlines above.
7. Not abiding by the reschedule policy may include consequences enforceable by league operating committee including fines, loss of home match privileges, and in cases of repeated offenses, disqualification from post season play.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership in the Red River NPL is an annual membership, and is contingent upon compliance with all rules, regulations, and policies of the Red River NPL and US Club NPL. Your club has been conditionally approved as a member club of the Red River NPL for the 2018-2019 seasonal year. This conditional membership is subject to your club’s agreement to the terms and conditions outlined in the 2018-2019 NPL Commitment Agreement (below). Your club’s membership will remain subject to compliance with all terms and conditions set forth in the agreement, and with all rules, regulations and policies of the Red River NPL and US Club NPL National rules. Member clubs may be sanctioned for non compliance, including consequences up to removal from the Red River NPL, by the NPL Red River League Operating Committee.
COMPETITIION STANDARDS
Each club will participate at minimum one team from each age division in both boys and girls for each of the following age divisions: 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U, 17U, and 18/19U.
Each club will require each representative team to complete EVERY scheduled match. By committing to this agreement is committing to the Red River NPL play dates.
Each club will ensure it’s teams are not scheduled for tournament play, showcase events, state cups, high school sports, testing dates, or other functions that will interfere with the NPL play dates.
Each club will guarantee that it’s representative teams, if they win to advance within the league play-off system, will participate, or if they advance beyond the Red River league to US Club postseason pathways will participate.
Each club will ensure all teams are compliant with registration, roster, and club pass rules pertaining to NPL participation.
GAME HOSTING STANDARDS
Each club will furnish minimally the following IF they are hosting a play weekend:
Full Sized Field properly lined, mowed, with proper goals, nets, corner flags
Full referee crew properly certified, to arrive no later than 20 mins prior to kick-off
Certified Athletic Trainer on site for all games at minimum 1 hour prior to game 1 kick-off
One club official to serve as “site coordinator” for the hosting facility
Facility with restrooms, adequate parking, and weather evacuation plan in place
Each club is recommended to provide the following for each game:
Water Station field side
Team Tents field side
Spare referee in case of injury
Staff or 4th official to manage pass cards and substitutions at halfway line
Signage with league branding
ANNUAL FEES
The following fees are required to support the league programs and operations for the Red River NPL:
2018-19 Member Club Annual Deposit, $2,000: This will serve as a good faith deposit and will be held until the team deadline of July 15th when teams will have applied and paid.
2018-19 Team Fee - $800 per team, due July 15th.
2018-19 Additional Costs: There will be individual application fees for Spring League Cups and Community Shield events, as well as any NPL supported Showcase events. All costs associated with regular season game hosting will be the responsibility of the home-team club.
COMMITMENT AGREEMENT
It is the responsibility of each of the signing parties to notify the other in the event that a commitment cannot be met and to initiate timely efforts at rectifying any inability to meet the commitments expressed in this document.
This agreement is due by no later than June 15, 2018. And payment due no later than July 15, 2018.
By signing this document, signatories, as representatives of their respective club programs are certifying that the content herein is acceptable and that on behalf of their club they will ensure implementation of the standards set forth in this agreement by those over whom they have authority within their club program.
EXHIBIT A: NPL RED RIVER RESCHEDULE POLICY
1. Each member club will designate the following staff with contact phone numbers, and emails, who will be charged with being accessible and responsive to communication through the season:
a) NPL Club Administrator
b) Facility Hosting Coordinator
c) Club Technical Director
2. Play-Determination Deadlines:
a) Less than 100 miles – minimum 10 hours prior to kick-off
b) Over 100 miles – minimum 24 hours prior to kick-off
c) Over 150 miles – minimum 10 pm the day prior to travel (i.e. if kick-off is Saturday, then notification of cancelation is required Thursday by 10 pm)
All clubs will attempt to secure at minimum two synthetic turf field options as back-ups to weather related field surface issues.
Club’s agree to communicate by Wednesday 10 am weekly on upcoming travel events with regards to weather.
3. Once the play-determination deadline has passed without notification of a cancelation from a hosting club, the matches must be hosted by the host club, with the only exception becoming safety issues determined at the site (i.e. lightning, tornado, etc).
4. Travel Partner Situations: In any case that a Saturday match is canceled (due to weather) in which the traveling club was to participate in, the subsequent Sunday fixture will likewise be canceled.
a) If either host club of a travel weekend elects to cancel, both travel partner hosts will be forced to cancel.
b) Travel partner hosts are strongly encouraged to collaborate on field closure decisions.
5. Teams agree to utilize pre-scheduled rain-out dates in the annual calendar to make up any fixtures canceled due to weather.
6. Once the play-determination deadlines pass, host clubs may not cancel or close facilities to preserve facilities. Clubs have agreed to assess that risk and make decisions ahead of the play-determination deadlines above.
7. Not abiding by the reschedule policy may include consequences enforceable by league operating committee including fines, loss of home match privileges, and in cases of repeated offenses, disqualification from post season play.