CHECK-IN WITH YOUR REFEREE CREW
(No less than 24 hours prior to game time.)
Please remember the IMPORTANCE
of contacting each other on your crew.
Possible $25 fine to you !!!

BE AT GAMES ON TIME! No less than 20 minutes prior to game time.

Ensure that FIELD is safe, GOALS are anchored, and NETS are good.

UNIFORMS must be the same & LOOK PROFESSIONAL!

NO JEWELRY ALLOWED! (for players or officials!)

FIRST OFFICIAL LISTED IS HEAD OFFICIAL (in 2 or 3 man system)
Head official, please report anything really unusual to ME!
OR, in the event of an official not showing for an assignment,
arriving late, after game time, etc. (use email)

YOU MUST Send Report to ME for any RED or BLUE CARDS ASAP.

2011-2012 Game Fees are $36 for JV / $46 for Varsity, plus $10 travel.

Please DO NOT make any changes or switch games without first going thru me.
(Because of the "onepay" system.)

Per the FHSAA 2011-2012 Guidebook,
the BLUE card is NOT reported.
DO NOT send a report to the FHSAA for a BLUE card.

Please Email me with the information.
(So I can keep track.)
Thank you - John

Contact Commissioner John Jordan

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 10, 2011) In an effort to treat all illegal equipment violations the same in high school soccer, players with illegal equipment shall be removed on the first caution, which is given to the coach, and cannot re-enter until the next legal substitution opportunity.

This revision in high school soccer rules for 2011-12 was one of nine changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Soccer Rules Committee at its January 24-26 meeting in Indianapolis. The rules changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.

Since the coach receives the first caution for an illegally equipped player, Rule 4-3 previously allowed a player who had been removed but not cautioned to re-enter during a dead ball. Beginning next season, all removed players will re-enter at the next legal substitution opportunity.

In Rule 12 (Fouls and Misconduct), the rules committee changed the penalty for excessive goal celebration by a player from disqualification (yellow and red cards) to a caution (yellow card), and added two other examples of unsporting conduct in Rule 12-8-1f, which are penalized by a yellow card.

Unsporting conduct now will include a player who displays reckless play and an illegally equipped player, as well as excessive goal celebration, which is defined as any delayed, excessive or prolonged act(s) by which a player(s) attempts to focus attention upon himself/herself and/or prohibits a timely restart of the game.

The committee agreed that disqualifying a player for excessive goal celebration is too severe, said Mark Koski, NFHS assistant director and staff liaison to the Soccer Rules Committee. Actions that would constitute taunting and/or offensive language or gestures, however, are still punishable by disqualification.

With the addition of reckless play as an unsporting conduct violation, the committee approved a definition to include in Rule 18. Reckless play occurs when the player has acted with complete disregard of the danger to, or consequences for, the opponent.

Two revisions were approved with regard to player equipment. Rule 4-1-1 now clarifies that goalkeepers may wear pants instead of shorts, as long as they comply with manufacturer’s logo requirements. Also, a new article will be added to Rule 4-1 as follows: It is recommended that substitutes wear distinguishing pinnies when warming up outside of the team area. The committee approved the recommendation to help the officials distinguish players who are warming up outside the team area from active field players.

In other changes, goalkeepers now may have two numbers listed on the roster a goalkeeper’s number and a field player’s number. Also, all players’ numbers must now be listed on the roster. The committee also added a ninth signal to the Official Soccer Signal chart to signal a goal.

In addition to the changes approved by the rules committee, last October the NFHS Board of Directors voted to delay implementation of Rule 4-1-1b regarding uniforms until fall 2013. The rule now will read, Beginning with the 2013 fall season, the home team shall wear solid white jerseys and solid white socks, and the visiting team shall wear dark jerseys and socks. The rule, which was adopted by the committee in January 2010, was due to go into effect in fall 2012.