Welcome to Chiltern Youth Football League
Established in 1953, the Chiltern Youth Football League is dedicated to the development and growth of youth football at U11 to U18's across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas to thousands of young players.
Established in 1953, the Chiltern Youth Football League is dedicated to the development and growth of youth football at U11 to U18's across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas to thousands of young players.
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League Handbook 2019 - 2020Key Action Dates
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Season 2019 – 20 Newsletter – Volume 2 (12.08.19)
Pre-season Information • Player Registrations – please note that player registrations are now open and are to be completed via the FA’s Whole Game system. If you require any assistance, please contact Pamela Johnson (Registration Secretary) via pamelacyl@hotmail.com PLEASE REMEMBER THAT 11-A-SIDE TEAMS NEED TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF 12 PLAYERS REGISTERED BY 15th AUGUST TO COMPLY WITH LEAGUE RULES / 9A-SIDE TEAMS NEED TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF 10 PLAYERS REGISTERED by 15th AUGUST TO COMPLEY WITH LEAGUE RULES • Full-Time Team Log-In – Tony Gee will be setting up Full-Time log-ins and sending these to managers and administrators so that they will be able to access Full-Time to be able to complete their match day administration. Please keep an eye out for these emails and verify your details within them once received • Fixtures – these have been released via Full-Time; We require visibility of County Cup fixtures from the various County Associations; please could I ask for those clubs who are affiliated to a County outside of Bedfordshire, that you forward details of your County Cup fixtures to us as soon as you receive them as we do not automatically get notified by those Counties • Handbook Entries – as with previous seasons, I will shortly be asking for your assistance in ensuring that the details within the Club Directory section of our handbook are accurate and up to date. I will be circulating details of how to update the database and would appreciate your support in completing this section. It really does only take a couple of moments per team and is invaluable in ensuring that the handbook is the source of truth for all league matters for the coming season • Free Sunday Requests – teams need to give a calendar months’ notice of any request for a Free Sunday. Please email your request in accordance with the timelines to Tony Gee (Fixture Secretary) via Tonygee@hotmail.co.uk • Half Term Holidays – following the rule change at the AGM, please remember that fixtures will be scheduled on Sundays at the start and end of Half Term. If you wish to request a Free Sunday on one of these dates, please ensure that you do so in accordance with the league rule (as above) • County Affiliation Numbers – once you have received your club’s affiliation number for the new season, please could you forward to me so that I can update our records • Friendly Matches – please remember that if you wish to play friendly matches, you need to contact your County Association to get the match sanctioned. This is to ensure that the game is covered by insurance in the case of injury to players etc. • Club Assistant Referee Training – The Bedfordshire FA held a training session on 8th August for volunteers who act as Club Assistant Referees. The attendance for this session was the best to date and hopefully those there had an enjoyable evening, learning some tips of the trade in how to be an assistant referee and even got the opportunity to put these into practice! • Full Council Meeting – a gentle reminder that the pre-season Full Council Meeting is being held on Monday 2nd August at 8pm at the Bedfordshire Football Association, Skimpot Road, Dunstable. This meeting is mandatory for all clubs. As part of this session, Mike Desborough will deliver a short presentation on Temporary Dismissals (which are now used at all levels of grass roots football) and also the changes to the Laws of the Game for the 2019 / 20 season. Please feel free to invite your Managers to attend this session if they wish Key Dates for the Diary 2019 August 15th – Teams required to have a minimum of 12 players (11x11 teams) / 10 players (9v9 teams) registered by this date 31st - Teams required to have all players registered who wish to be eligible to play on the first Sunday of the playing season September 2nd – Pre-season Full Council Meeting – 8pm – County Lounge, Bedfordshire Football Association, Dunstable - Mandatory Attendance for Clubs At this meeting clubs will receive paper copies of handbook (we only print enough copies to satisfy the demand of those ordered in advance and paid for) and copies of Team Sheet pads (1 per team) 8th – Playing Season Starts (all age groups) October 1st – Transfer Window Opens Various Dates – School Half Term – fixtures will be scheduled on all dates; if you require a free Sunday on any of these dates, please make your request accordance with League Rules December 22nd & 29th - Fixtures will NOT be scheduled on these dates 2020 January 5th – Fixtures re-commence after Christmas / New Year break 27th – Mid-season Full Council Meeting – 8pm – Flitwick Football Centre, Flitwick – Mandatory Attendance for Clubs February Various Dates – School Half Term – fixtures will be scheduled on all dates; if you require a free Sunday on any of these dates, please request one in accordance with League Rules April 12th - Easter Sunday – Fixtures will NOT be scheduled on this date June 15th – AGM – 8pm – County Lounge, Bedfordshire Football Association, Dunstable - Mandatory Attendance for Clubs THE CHILTERN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE (Affiliated to The Bedfordshire FA) Season 2019 – 20 Newsletter – Volume 1 (24.07.19) Pre-season Information Free Sunday Requests – teams need to give a calendar months’ notice of any request for a Free Sunday. Please email your request in accordance with the timelines to Tony Gee (Fixture Secretary) via tonygee@hotmail.co.uk Half Term Holidays – following the rule change at the AGM, please remember that fixtures will be scheduled on Sundays at the start and end of Half Term. If you wish to request a Free Sunday on one of these dates, please ensure that you do so in accordance with the league rule (as above) Player Registrations – please note that player registrations are now open and are to be completed via the FA’s Whole Game system. If you require any assistance, please contact Pamela Johnson (Registration Secretary) via pamelacyl@hotmail.com Constitutions – the constitution for all age groups has now been completed and locked down, with the new season being updated to the Whole Game System & Full-Time by the Beds FA in conjunction with Tony. We will announce further details when we are ready to release this for public viewing Full-Time Team Log-In – Tony Gee will be setting up Full-Time log-ins and sending these to managers and administrators so that they will be able to access Full-Time to be able to complete their match day administration. Please keep an eye out for these emails and verify your details within them once received County Affiliation Numbers – once you have received your club’s affiliation number for the new season, please could you forward to me so that I can update our records Fixtures – these will be released via Full-Time in due course; Tony will aim to release the first month’s fixtures as soon as possible, but this is not likely to be until mid-August. We require visibility of County Cup fixtures from the various County Associations; please could I ask for those clubs who are affiliated to a County outside of Bedfordshire, that you forward details of your County Cup fixtures to us as soon as you receive them as we do not automatically get notified by those Counties Referee Appointments – during June we were notified by the Bedfordshire Football Association that they would no longer be operating their Central Appointments System for the coming season. Although disappointed with the timing of the decision, we have moved forwards and are pleased to announce that Steve Chamberlain has been appointed to the position of Referee Appointments Secretary (AM) for the CYFL. Steve has many years of experience of youth football within Bedfordshire and is currently the Chairman of the Referees Committee for the Bedfordshire Football Association and has been a member of the CYFL Management Committee for a number of seasons. Steve will be appointing referees to our AM fixtures (Under 11, 12, 13 and 14) for the coming season and we are pleased to have Steve in post already. He will be reaching out to all referees within Bedfordshire over the coming weeks as he begins to plan for the coming season. Steve’s contact details are 07806 785072 and amyouthappointments@gmail.com. We are in discussion around the position for the PM section (Under 15, 16, 17 and 18) and hope to release further details in due course. At this stage we would like to place our sincere thanks to Mike Desborough who has worked diligently on our referee appointments over the past 3 seasons and are pleased that he will be remaining as part of our Management Committee for the coming season. Mike will also be continuing in his role as Referee Development Officer for Bedfordshire and we hope to continue our close working relationship with Mike with the purpose or recruiting and retaining referees, developing their skill sets as they progress within the game. Handbook Entries – as with previous seasons, I will require your assistance in ensuring that the details within the Club Directory section of our handbook are accurate and up to date. I will be circulating details of how to update the database in due course and would appreciate your support in completing this section. It really does only take a couple of moments per team and is invaluable in ensuring that the handbook is the source of truth for all league matters for the coming season Friendly Matches – please remember that if you wish to play friendly matches, you need to contact your County Association to get the match sanctioned. This is to ensure that the game is covered by insurance in the case of injury to players etc. Club Assistant Referee Training – The Bedfordshire FA are inviting all volunteer assistant referees to a training event on 8th August where you will receive training from an FA Referee Tutor on the basic techniques and skills needed for running the line as a Club Assistant Referee. Anybody is welcome and we would encourage you to join us, brush up on the Laws of The Game relevant to be an assistant referee and enjoy an interactive evening of training and development. Date: Thursday 8th August Time: 19:00 – 21:00 Venue: Bedfordshire FA, Skimpot Road, Dunstable, LU5 4JU Cost: Free Do you run the line for your local team? Do you know the new offside law? Do you understand what you can and can’t flag for? If you wish to attend the event or send along a group of Club Assistant Referees’ from your club, please email mike.desborough@bedfordshirefa.com to book a place, detailing the name of the person attending and the club they represent. Key Dates for the Diary 2019 August 15th – Teams required to have a minimum of 12 players (11x11 teams) / 10 players (9v9 teams) registered by this date 31st - Teams required to have all players registered who wish to be eligible to play on the first Sunday of the playing season. September 2nd – Pre-season Full Council Meeting – 8pm – County Lounge, Bedfordshire Football Association, Dunstable - Mandatory Attendance for Clubs At this meeting clubs will receive paper copies of handbook (we only print enough copies to satisfy the demand of those ordered in advance and paid for) and copies of Team Sheet pads (1 per team) As well as League business, this meeting will also contain a presentation of Temporary Dismissals (mandatory across all Grass Roots football for Season 2019 – 20) and also a presentation on Laws of the Game changes for the coming season. Clubs are encouraged to ask their managers to attend this session for information purposes 8th – Playing Season Starts (all age groups) October 1st – Transfer Window Opens Various Dates – School Half Term – fixtures will be scheduled on all dates; if you require a free Sunday on any of these dates, please request one in accordance with League Rules December 22nd & 29th - Fixtures will NOT be scheduled on these dates 2020 January 5th – Fixtures re-commence after Christmas / New Year break 27th – Mid-season Full Council Meeting – 8pm – Flitwick Football Centre, Flitwick – Mandatory Attendance for Clubs February Various Dates – School Half Term – fixtures will be scheduled on all dates; if you require a free Sunday on any of these dates, please request one in accordance with League Rules April 12th - Easter Sunday – Fixtures will NOT be scheduled on this date June 15th – AGM – 8pm – County Lounge, Bedfordshire Football Association, Dunstable - Mandatory Attendance for Clubs FULL TIME UPDATE Full Time 2019/20 will be available from Monday/Tuesday to view for the coming season once all is confirmed with the FA. We will then begin work on all the background work needed to go live with the fixtures release in mid August. You will be able to use your log in details from last season if you are still the correct person listed for the team.If not then we will send a link to the new person listed fo them to set new details. This includes all U11's as they are new to the league. Remember the details are set by the clubs on WGS and transfer over to the leagues Full Time site. So keep an eye out and we will let you know when you can view Full Time. 8th September will soon be here. CYL 15th JULY 2019-LEAGUE UPDATE... Over 220 teams will be playing in the Chiltern Youth League again this season. High standards in every age group is guaranteed.Once we go live on Full Time we will let you know.We will be sending an email link in the near future so that you can log in to Full Time so that you can complete your weekly match details. This email will come from Full Time so keep an eye on your inbox and junk folders. Fixture planning will also start shortly which is something I know you are all looking forward to. So just 8 weeks until the season begins when we go again. Don't forget to send in any free week requests for the early weeks of the season. Player Registration is active so get them onto the system for us to verify. Thanks CYL. WELCOME TO THE FOLLOWING NEW CLUBS 2019-20 will see a number of new clubs, so let's say hello to the following, read more here REFEREE APPOINTMENT OFFICER The Beds FA are withdrawing the Central Referee Appointments system they have been running for several seasons to assist Leagues read more here At the AGM on Monday the member clubs voted on the following rule change. read more here AGM NEWS.... 17th JUNE 2019 Head over to our Facebook page for an update on all our award winners on the night. BREAKING NEWS.... Season 2019-20 starts 8th September 2019 SUPER SUNDAY - WHAT A DAY!!!!! Morecombe and Wise we thank you!!!!! After my appeal earlier in the week to 'Bring Me Sunshine' read more here SUPER SUNDAY 12TH MAY. This week we have our end of season cup finals day at Barton. read more here... CHECK YOUR INBOX All club Secretary's should have received the League application form for next season 2019-20. Can we ask that these are completed and returned to the league Secretary by the 31st May. We will then endeavour to form a constitution ready for the AGM on the 17th June 2019. Great evening at Flitwick Football Centre Wednesday evening (1st May) Flitwick hosted two Plate finals which were organised at short notice so thanks goes to all the staff and committee at Flitwick... read more here Cup Final Update Last Sunday 28th April, Bedford Town FC hosted our second League Cup Finals day. read more here CONGRATULATIONS AMPTHILL TOWN YELLOWS U14's County Cup winners Ampthill Town Yellow's took the top prize by beating Stotfold (EJA League) 3-0 in Sunday's final. Once again Chiltern Youth League teams showing the way. One Cup Final day done. Now on to the next one - Let's hope it's a bit warmer!!!! Well done to both Flitwick Eagles Golds U16's and Luton Allstars Rovers U16's who took the winners medals in the two finals... read more here Edge of Play Offering over 200 coaching videos and resources - all completely FREE..! Helping support grassroots coaches everywhere www.edgeofplay.com ... read more here Silent Football Sunday - Amendment We have updated details on our Silent Sunday event on Sunday 24th March ... read more here Silent Football Sunday - 24th March 2019 As disscussed at our recent Full Council Meeting, we are pleased to formally announce the details of our forthcoming Silent Sunday event... read more here FULL COUNCIL MEETING 28TH JANUARY 2019 Don't forget that next Monday is the Full Council Meeting for all clubs to attend. 8pm @ Bedfordshire FA
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