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Youth Festival 2025 Registration requirements, Scoring & Advancement

Youth Festival 2025 Rules

Please make sure your teams are aware of the FESTIVAL RULES ADAPTATIONS for this weekend. With time tight between games make sure your Coaches, Players & Parents are fully on board with any differences from Regular season play.
 
The below information is for 9U-12U Festival Teams ONLY.
 
 
 
EACH TEAM SHOULD PROVIDE A TEAM ROSTER AND LAMINATED PLAYER CARDS TO THE REFEREE 15 MINUTES BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME.
 
 
9U-10U Games - 25 minute halfs / 7v7 format
11U-12U Games - 30 minute halfs / 9v9 format
 
 
Home Team: Dark Jersey
Away Team: Light Jersey
In the event of a conflict HOME team will be asked to change.
 
 
Scoring:
 
Each Age Group will be awarded a 1st & 2nd place designation based on the format below
 
Win - 3 points
Tie - 1 Point
Loss - 0 Points
 
 
Tie-Breakers:
 
1. Head to Head
2. Goal Difference ( max of 4 per game)
3. Goals Scored ( max of 4 per game)
4. Goals against
5. Shutouts
6. Red/Yellow Card awards for Coach/Players ( 5pts for Red, 2pts for Yellow).
 
 If more than two teams are tied, the tie-breaking process will be used until a winner is determined. The tie-breaking procedure does not revert to previous criteria if one team is eliminated.

 

In a situation where a group cannot be completed due to exceptional circumstances, and teams

have played an unequal number of games, we may use Points Per Game (PPG) to decide group standings.

 

 

 No Re-Entry Protocol (Head Injury)

In accordance with the US Soccer return to play guidelines, any player removed from the field

for a suspected head injury will not be allowed to return to the field of play unless cleared by a

Healthcare Professional.

 

 Healthcare Professional

A healthcare professional is defined as “a licensed healthcare professional such as an athletic

trainer certified (ATC), or a physician (MD/DO), with a skill set in emergency care and sports

medicine injuries and with knowledge and experience related to concussion evaluation and

management.”

 

 Substitutions

Substitutions by either team are allowed at any stoppage of play with the permission of the

referee. Referees will be instructed not to allow substitutions that are deemed “excessive” or of

a “time-wasting” nature. Please be respectful of the integrity of the game and do not use the free

substitution rules as a means to disrupt the match.

Each manager should have the following at every game

 

? US Club Medical Release forms

? US Club Soccer roster/loan form of the team and players.

? US Club Soccer passes for its players and team officials

 

 Personnel on the bench

 

A maximum of 2 team officials are allowed in each team’s technical area. Team officials must

have a US Club pass visable around their neck in order to sit in the technical area.

 It is recommended that teams have several credentialed coaches or managers with passes for the team just in case something happens to the head coach. A US Club pass makes a person eligible to coach any team in the club for which that coach or manager is credentialed.

 

Team Registration Requirements

All Teams MUST present a CAROLINA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROSTER to the TOURNAMENT TENT prior to their 1st game. Rosters will be checked at random throughout the day and for ALL championship finals.

PLAYER CARDS FOR ALL PLAYERS & COACHES must be with the teams for ALL GAMES NO EXCEPTIONS.

Tournament Cancellation Policy

Tournament Cancellation Policy

 

Tournament Cancellation

The Carolina Champions League and the League commissioner / Tournament Director reserve the right to decide all matters pertaining to the tournament – and may, in their sole discretion, delay, postpone, or cancel the tournament, or otherwise alter the tournament structure (such as the duration of and/or number of games for teams),  The decision of the League Commisioner and the Tournament Director on these matters shall be final, and shall not entitle any team to a refund or other return of entry fees paid, except as provided below (subject to any exception set out below, entry fees are nonrefundable).

If the tournament is cancelled for any reason before any tournament matches are played, teams will receive a refund of 50% of fees paid .  

Outside of complete tournament cancellation, other circumstances may arise in which the Tournament Committee based on the totality of circumstances, decide to provide a refund of some or all of team entry fees (or for particular teams based on impacts from weather and other circumstances).  Any such decision to alter the no-refund policy is in the sole and absolute discretion of the Carolina Champions League & Tournament Director and any such decision shall not constitute a binding commitment with respect to future similar circumstances or other teams.   

The Tournament Director and Carolina Champions League will not be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred by tournament participants (including, without limitation, for travel, lodging, or meals) if the tournament is delayed, postponed, cancelled, or otherwise altered for any reason.

 


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