NWCFL First Division North side removed from The PlayerMatch.com Cup
Fri 6th December 2019 | Announcements | By Craig Kendall
NWCFL First Division North side Lower Breck have being removed from The PlayerMatch.com Cup as they played an ineligible player in their win away at FC Oswestry Town on Saturday 23rd November.
The Disciplinary Committee of the North West Counties Football League considered the following:
Cup Rule 13:
“A player on a temporary (loan) transfer including a Trainee, Scholarship Player or Work Experience is not eligible to play in the Competition.”
Cup Rule 14 (b & c):
“b) Subject to (c) below, where an ineligible player plays for a club in a Competition match, the Board shall remove the club from the Competition, and may impose further penalties against the club.
(c) However, where the club satisfies the Board that the club (or any of its officers) did not know and could not reasonably have known, even had it made every reasonable enquiry (with the exercise of the utmost caution), that the player was ineligible, the club shall not be removed from the Competition but may still be subject to any other penalty. (e.g. fine, ordered to replay the match).”
After consideration, the Committee has no alternative but to apply the penalty as per Cup Rule 14b as the club has not satisfied the Board/Committee that they could not have reasonably known of the players' ineligibility and remove Lower Breck from the Competition and reinstate FC Oswestry Town.
This decision is subject to Lower Brecks right of Appeal to The Football Association.
NWCFL First Division North side removed from The PlayerMatch.com Cup
Fri 6th December 2019 | Announcements
By Craig Kendall
NWCFL First Division North side Lower Breck have being removed from The PlayerMatch.com Cup as they played an ineligible player in their win away at FC Oswestry Town on Saturday 23rd November.
The Disciplinary Committee of the North West Counties Football League considered the following:
Cup Rule 13:
“A player on a temporary (loan) transfer including a Trainee, Scholarship Player or Work Experience is not eligible to play in the Competition.”
Cup Rule 14 (b & c):
“b) Subject to (c) below, where an ineligible player plays for a club in a Competition match, the Board shall remove the club from the Competition, and may impose further penalties against the club.
(c) However, where the club satisfies the Board that the club (or any of its officers) did not know and could not reasonably have known, even had it made every reasonable enquiry (with the exercise of the utmost caution), that the player was ineligible, the club shall not be removed from the Competition but may still be subject to any other penalty. (e.g. fine, ordered to replay the match).”
After consideration, the Committee has no alternative but to apply the penalty as per Cup Rule 14b as the club has not satisfied the Board/Committee that they could not have reasonably known of the players' ineligibility and remove Lower Breck from the Competition and reinstate FC Oswestry Town.
This decision is subject to Lower Brecks right of Appeal to The Football Association.
