Co-ed Summer Soccer Rules
*This is a fun co-ed sport league where no physical or verbal behaviour is tolerated. We ensure all teams have a great time and always look forward to a great season!
General Info
Kickoff
Rules
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
*This is a fun co-ed sport league where no physical or verbal behaviour is tolerated. We ensure all teams have a great time and always look forward to a great season!
General Info
- Each team consists of 7 players on the field at once. 1 goalie and 6 players, 2 of which must be female at all time during play. Teams may default when they cannot meet the team minimum of 5 players on the field or 2 women playing any position. This default can be overturned if both team captains agree to waive the rule and thus the game counts towards the standings.
- Each game is comprised of two 26 minute halves with a 5 minute half time break. Game Referee is in charge of running the clock and notifying players when there is 2 minutes left in each half.
- Rock, Paper, Scissors will decide which team has the opportunity to choose either the ball or halve to start the game.
Kickoff
- The ball will be placed at midfield and make one full rotation forward before touched by another player.
Rules
- Any time the ball goes out along the sidelines a throw in will occur.
- When the ball goes out of bounds along the goal line 2 options will occur:
- If the attacking offence hit the ball out of bounds a goal kick will occur from the defense at the top of the box
- If the defending team hits the ball out of bounds along their own goal line a corner kick will occur from the offense.
- Handballs will reflect in indirect kicks (i.e. in order to score the ball must be touched by any player (offense or defense) before the game enters the net.
- Handballs in the penalty box will result in a penalty shot 10 paces from the goal.
- All handballs will be at the discretion of players and should be dealt with fairly from both sides since this is only for FUN.
- Heading the ball is allowed.
- All free kicks are regarded as in-direct aside from penalty shots.
- Teams may call a 1 minute timeout per game at any time.
- There is no such thing as OFF-SIDES
- Goalies can perform 3 acts when they have saved the ball
- Throw the ball down field.
- Kick the ball out of their hands
- Drop the ball and kick it on the ground (once the ball has been dropped it becomes a live ball and the opposing players can attack).
- When a goalies player on their team hits the ball back to them, they can only kick it unless their player has headed the ball back to them; in that case the goalie can pick the ball up with their hands.
- Wins will count as 2 points and Ties 1 point. All regular season game can end in ties while in playoffs 5 minute sudden death overtime will take place. In the event the game is still tied a 5 person shootout will occur with the most amount of goals declared the winning the team. A sudden death shootout will take place in the event teams are still tied after 5 shooters.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- There is absolutely NO ROUGH PLAY/HITTING/FIGHTING allowed, in the event a player/players are engaging in such act they will be removed from the league without refund.
- There is to be no slide tackling allowed of any sort, this kind of activity can result in injuries.
- Any disputes between players will be handled by the event coordinator on site, All disputes should be handled by players although in rare circumstances the event coordinator will settle