1. West Coast Soccer Association
Preseason Meeting

2. Agenda Introductions Brief overview of Officer responsibilities
WCSA Partners
Policies
Scheduling Procedure (updated)
Transition
Demosphere
Q & A and Conclusion
Demosphere Tutorial

3. Director of Business Development
Officers
VP Operations
Brian Yip
President
Greg Rubendall
VP Competition
John Blessinger
Secretary
Natalie Stevens
Treasurer
Holden Smetana
Director of Business Development
Mike Hoffert
Appointed Positions:
Director of Officials: Michael Faryabi
Scheduler: Suhani Abdullah
Chairman of Policy and Discipline Committee: Juan Urquieta

4. Business Ventures Under Armour Flite Soccer
Official apparel supplier of WCSA
40% discount on all gear in current catalogue
Contact Jon Schubb:
Flite Soccer
Official ball of WCSA
WCSA logo; Club logo (min 50 ball order)
Retail $50; $35/ea for 1-10 balls; $32/ea for blls; $27/ea for balls; $25/ea for balls
Contact Keith Miller –

5. Policies

6. Policy 104 Competition & Laws of the Game
All games shall follow the FIFA Laws of the Game. Protests will be accepted should there be a dispute over player eligibility. Referee decisions based on their judgment of the laws of the games will not be subject to protests.
forfeitures results will result in a 3-0 result against the forfeiting team
forfeiting team will be subject to a minimum $250 fine, subject to grading increase of and
8-14 days : $275
3-7 days : $325
1-3 days : $365
Note: requesting date change on 15th day will count as requesting within the 14th day cutoff period as we require 24hr to respond
Multiple forfeits in one season may subject said team to additional fees, suspension, and expulsion from the league.

7. Policy 214(1) Fees, Invoicing & Payment
WCSA will not accept check payments. All payments must be processed by debit or credit card. Failure to pay Fees and Fines will subject the team to suspension or expulsion from the league. Communication of Fees and Fines for WCSA will done via the team page contact information. Failure to keep team contact information up to date will not be accepted for failing to pay fees. Failure to pay fees may subject the team from participating in the upcoming season. Failure to pay fines will render the team to be put on suspension and ineligible to participate in future competition till all fines are paid.
League & tournament fees are due by the specified deadline listed on the website.
Teams who qualify but do not attend the post season tournament will be subject to a $1000 fine.
Fines are due upon receipt of the paypal invoice. Failure to pay said fine(s) will result in the team being ineligible to participate in following competitions. Teams will be ineligible to participate until the fines are paid.
WCSA will only collect league fees via demosphere and fines via paypal.

8. Invoices are emailed out at on specific dates.
Referee Fees
Invoices are ed out at on specific dates.
Invoices are due 2 weeks upon posting, and an additional week grace period before additional delinquent payments are added.
You can also find on a google excel sheet the invoices that have been posted and paid/unpaid/in process
Fall League
Nov 1, Dec 1
Spring League
Mar 1, Apr 15

9. Policy 403 Referees Referee Assignments League Games
All league games must use officials provided by the WCSA assignor.
Failure to abide by this policy will subject the team possible removal from the league.
The schedule on the league website will serve as the official and assignments will be made accordingly
It is the teams responsibility to make sure their schedule on the league website is up to date.
Any schedule changes that need to be made are subject to additional referee fees as outlined in the Team Handbook.

10. Policy 241(5) Discipline, Suspension, Expulsion
Player and Team Official Discipline
in addition to red and yellow cards the referee may issue to players and substitutes at a match, the referee may also warn coaches and other team officials for inappropriate behavior and may dismiss them from the area of the field. Each caution or send-off of a player or substitute and each warning or dismissal of a coach or other team officials shall be included in the referee’s game report. For purposes of this policy, a warning to a coach or team official shall be equivalent to a caution and a dismissal equivalent to a send-off
if any individual refereed to in subsection (a) is issued--
a red card, including a red card as the result of being issued 2 yellow cards in the same match, the individual shall be suspended for at least one competition match.
Any red card resulting from foul or abusive language will result in a minimum of 2 game suspension. The PAD or WCSA officers may further increase the suspension term after reviewing the incident
Any red card resulting from violent conduct or spitting will result in a minimum 2 game suspension. The PAD or WCSA officers may further increase the suspension term after reviewing the incident
A suspension shall be served by the individual at the next match or matches of the team of that individual the following weekend.
Should the number of suspensions be greater than the remaining games, the player will continue to serve their suspension in post conference play.
Should it be found that a player on suspension participated in the following match in which they were suspended, their team will forfeit the match and be placed on administrative suspension
A player found to have committed 2 or more acts of Violent Conduct as defined by the Laws of the Game will be expelled from the league for a minimum of one year from the date of the infraction.
A player found to have committed a racial or homophobic slur will be expelled from the league for a minimum of one year from the date of the infraction.
Team Discipline
Teams found to have conspired to circumvent the constitution; by-laws and WCSA policies will be expelled from the league for a minimum of 3 years.
Teams failing to appear for a scheduled game will be subject to fines, suspension and expulsion from the league by the decision of the Board of Directors.
Teams are responsible for the behavior of their fans. Gross or repeated violations of behavior will subject teams to fines, suspensions and expulsion from the league

11. New Change to Discipline, Suspension, Expulsion
Appeals
Teams may appeal the suspensions issued by the PAD committee. The following will outline the process and ramifications of an appeal. The cost of submitting an appeal will be $75 paid via paypal.
A team must submit an appeal request and any relevant information to and a paypal invoice will be issued to begin the appeal process.
During the appeal process, the player that is affected will remain suspended until the appeal process has concluded.
The WCSA Officers will review the material from the PAD, and any information submitted by the appellee . A final decision will be communicated to the team within 10 business days.

12. Scheduling & Rescheduling
The official team and game schedule shall be posted on the league website. All changes and communication must be done and verified on the Demosphere game change log. These directions can be found in the Team Manual.
All Scheduling Changes
Requesting team must officially request on Demosphere log
Opponent has 24hrs to respond on Demosphere log
After confirmation on Demosphere log, HOME TEAM updates schedule
< 2 week Scheduling Change
Home Team Requests Change
Home team requests change on Demosphere log
Visiting team has 24hrs to confirm or reject change on Demosphere log
Once confirmed on Demosphere log; Home team for changes made
Visiting Team Requests Change
Visiting team requests change on Demosphere log
Home team has 24hrs to confirm or reject change on Demosphere log
Once confirmed on Demosphere log; Home team for changes made and include that visiting team requested change
Cancellations
Team requesting forfeit to comment in demosphere log
Team requesting forfeit to AND AND opponent
Any disputes for billing, forfeits will be resolved by Demosphere only

13. Referee Assignments League Games
Teams are to submit form with contact information of the treasurer of teams responsible to pay.
All league games must use officials provided by the WCSA assignor.
Failure to abide by this policy will subject the team possible removal from the league.
The schedule on the league website will serve as the official and assignments will be made accordingly
It is the teams responsibility to make sure their schedule on the league website is up to date.
Referee fees are to be invoiced and NOT paid on the field. Invoices for referee fees are net 10 (5 day grace period), and late fees will apply.
If referees are paid on the field, invoice fees will still apply and will not be negated. Payment on field is a clear violation of league policy and will not be counted towards the proper payment of referee fees.
Delinquent Payment
Payments received after 15 days are subject to an additional fee of $25.00
Payments received after 21 days are subject to an additional fee of $75.00
Payments received after 30 days are subject to an additional fee of $ % of the invoice
Payments received after 60 days are subject to an additional fee of $ % of the invoice
Payments received after 90 days are subject to an additional fee of $ % of the invoice
Payments received after 120 days are subject to an additional fee of % of the invoice
NO OFFICIALS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO A MATCH WITH A PAST DUE ACCOUNT.
If there are delinquent payment after 30 days; Teams of entire club will not have referees assigned. (ie. Cal Poly B has delinquent payments, Cal Poly A and Cal Poly Women will not have referees assigned to their games).

14. Transition Club Officers Communication Next year league fee
Use spring league to transition new president
Add them to team contact, have them be a support role take on more responsibility
Communication
Check website
broadcasts will go to all team contacts and sports clubs director
Calendar
Next year league fee
Budget accordingly to pay for Fall league fees

15. Player Registration Go to your club page by selecting “clubs”.
Select your team from the list.
Select the “team login” in the upper right hand corner.
Select the Roster Tab
There are three options at the top
When adding returning players, select the returning players from the list.
Add New Players (players who were not available in the option above)
Search for Existing player by name AND .
If they do not appear ONLY then do you “create a new player”.
Note each player on the roster MUST HAVE AN so that they can log in and pay their registration.
Once all the players are added, notice on the roster the “approve column”. Players will be approved/finalized once they login and make their player registration payment.
Players must have all of the following:
Photo
Address
Phone
Date of birth
*NOTE: If any are missing they WILL NOT show up on the printed match report and WILL NOT be eligible to play. /

16. Player Registration Payment
Once you have your information login, you can modify your player information and make your registration payment (the payment page may take some time to load).
Enter your information and pay registration.