Development Football Match Guidelines

1. All players must wear shin pads, which must be covered by their stockings.

2. The duration of the match will be 20 minutes each way with a 5 minute break at half time. The team leaders may mutually agree a reduction in the event of poor weather or pitch conditions or an obvious mismatch of teams.

3. Teams may either use a kick-in or a throw-in when the ball goes out of play.

4. Goalkeepers attempting to gather the ball by hand may not be challenged.

5. Goalkeepers may kick or throw the ball out as preferred. In the effort to prevent long passes, they should be encouraged to restrict their passes to their own half of the pitch.

6. On all occasions of restart of play, opposing players should be at least 6 meters away from the ball.

7. After a goal is scored, the game must be restarted by a kick-off at the centre of the field.

8. It is the home team’s responsibility to ensure the provision of an adult to supervise the match. Parents and spectators must accept the match supervisor’s decisions as final.