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YEL Update – 29th November 2024
This Update has FIVE important messages this week which we would ask you to please read.

  • Cancelling fixtures from December 1st onwards
  • No free weekends 
  • Play offs are coming
  • Last chance for new U7/U8 teams to join
  • YEL Office email address is changing!

Cancelling fixtures from December 1st onwards
Reminder of the League Regulation 14

Postponement of a Winter season fixture – When a home team cancels a Winter league fixture, the YEL reserves the right to reverse the fixture, should it be rearranged. First cancellations will cease to be available from December 1st. Any match cancelled from December 1st onwards will be treated as an on the day cancellation

No free weekends
We are occasionally asked if a team can have a free weekend or block out a date. Unfortunately it is not possible to have ‘free weekends’ during the season due to having a winter and spring league. Due to the number of teams in the league and the limited number of weeks available to complete the fixture programme, teams need to be available every weekend. Teams can, of course, use a first cancellation during each of the seasons where a small fine will be applied dependent on the nature of the cancellation. The game will then be rescheduled.

Play Offs …are coming
As the winter season comes to an end, there are a number of teams in that could be a joint champions or joint runners up. Where possible Play off games will be organised to decide on the final positions over the coming weekends.

Reminder of the play off rules – League Regulation 18:
(i)The league reserves the right to arrange play off games at the end of each season for any U9 teams upwards who finish a league in joint position for Champions or Runners Up
(ii)The match will be played at the ground of the original away team if a neutral venue is not provided.
(iii)If the play off involves three teams in a three way play off, the league will decide on the venue based on home matches played.
(iv) Unless notified by the league, play off matches will be played over the standard time period for the age group.
(v) Should the scores be level at the end of the normal period of play, the result will be a draw and the league position will be shared – ie Joint Champions or Joint Runners Up.
(vi) THERE WILL BE NO EXTRA TIME OR TAKING OF PENALTIES TO DECIDE A ‘WINNER’
(vii) NOTE: Shared Runners Up does not automatically guarantee promotion for both/all
teams on equal points.

Last chance for new U7 & U8 teams to join
December 10th will be the closing date for applications to be received from new U7 & U8 teams for this season. These teams will have fixtures arranged in the development groups from the beginning of January 2025. Applications must be from existing member clubs. Club Secretaries need to log into Scoreline. Select the ‘Clubs/Teams/Contacts’ option from the main menu and choose ‘My Clubs’ scroll down to the ‘Teams within Club’ card and click on ‘Add Team’. Complete the required fields and click save. Repeat for each team being entered.

YEL Office email address is changing!
office@yelonline.com will be closing down over the next few weeks. It has been replaced with a brand new YEL Office email address:

office@yelonline.com

Please make sure you update your contact information to this new address as it is now being used.

The old office@yelonline.com will continue to be monitored in the short term but you will get an automated response advising you to switch to the new address. There is no need to resend the email as it will be forwarded to the new one in the short term.

The switch to office@yelonline.com brings the office email address in line with the growing suite of @yelonline.com email accounts designed to ensure that your email gets to the right person as quickly as possible. Please use the relevant email addresses below to speed up the process:

office@yelonline.com – all general administrative enquiries, fixture queries, changes to ko times, questions on rules
finance@yelonline.com – any player registration queries, match return fines/queries, queries relating to invoices
referees@yelonline.com –questions regarding referee appointments, how to register a referee/as a ref.

Contacting the YEL

If you email the YEL OFFICE – office@yelonline.com – please ensure you state the team name, age group and playing day so we can quickly deal with the enquiry
If you have any issues or on the day queries relating to your game only, you can contact the YEL Game Day Hotline number for advice. Available between 9.30am and 12.30pm on Sat/Sun

ONLY AVAILABLE FOR ON THE DAY MATCH RELATED ENQUIRIES – no other issues will be discussed.

Rob Harwood CEO
YEL OFFICE

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