ACT Women's Football Playing Competition Rules for 2010 Show Some Enterprise

As you may know, there has been plenty of Club concern for the inability of players (men and women) to play for the their Club during the normal football season. The CF Football HPP and ACTAS are the two points of concern.

Our talented player pool is not so great that we can or should harvest the best tp play against the remainder of our players in our own competition. Clubs need these players, they are an integral part of the development process - of the talented players and of those they may play with in season.

The CF Board position now appears (as of 1/3/10) to have resolved (in large part) the Mens HPP matter in favour of the players returning to Club if they choose to do (exception is the U13 Boys). See earlier post on this matter.

The Women's HPP doesn't have playing squads - they were treated differently, though the NPL is not sure why this is the case. Its a curious contradiction but in this case a good one for the women players and Clubs.

That brings us to ACTAS!


The position on players from the Men's and Women's programs returing to CLubs to play is neatly divided on gender basis too:

• Women can play for a Club in 2010
• Men will play in an ACTAS team in the PPL competition

Why is it different? The game is the same!

Do the ACTAS Coaches see it differently and if so, why? The NPL will try and find out.

To embrace the participation of ACTAS Women players in the ACT competition, several new new playing competition rules have been developed. These playing conditions also embrace the inclusion of W League players.

They are an interesting set of competition rules which clearly seek to prevent any one Club from poaching / recruiting a predominance of these talented players. It always a risk when talented players have been held in development programs for extended periods (and this understandable as they may continue to evidence talent). The talented players' friendships groups begin to revolve around each other - the consequence is that we have "the best playing with the best", rather than "the best playing against the best".

Consequenlty, emphasis is given to Clubs retaining those players they have hand in developing. The magic number is three years.

Anyway, see below for the revelant section of the competition rules.

Extract from ACTFF WL Playing Competition Rules - 2010

ACTAS AND W-LEAUGE PLAYERS

75.1 A home grown player is a player who has been registered with the same Capital Football Club (or it’s recognised junior affiliate) for at least three consecutive years before the age of 16.

75.2 A player is classed as an ACT Academy of Sport (ACTAS) Scholarship Holder if they accepted the scholarship and participated in the program at any stage in the year of registration or within the previous year.

75.3 There will be a combined maximum of three ACTAS Scholarship holders/WLeague Roster Players per club. These players are only eligible to play in the Women’s Premier League structure. Home grown players on ACTAS Scholarships or W-League agreements may be the only exception upon application outlining extenuating circumstances.

75.4 If a club has more than three home grown players, then the club may apply to register all of those players. These players should be registered first before any other players are registered.

For Example:

i) Club A has four home grown players selected as ACTAS scholarship holders or W-League players. Club A may register all of these players but cannot recruit any other ACTAS or W-League players from other clubs.

ii) Club A only registers two of its four home grown players who have an ACTAS Scholarship/W-League Agreement and recruits another ACTAS Scholarship/W-League player who is not home grown. Club A may register these three players, but is not then permitted to register the other two home grown players.


Go to Capital Football for the complete competition rules document