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NEHYL Newsletter Snapshot #8

Oct 20, 2023

Welcome to Season 2023/24

We hope you have had a good summer and enjoyed the first few weeks of youth football this season. As always, our goal is to provide safe, fun and competitive football across the youth age groups and we can only do this with our members support. It's great to see so many clubs have returned to us and continue to do so year on year. Our latest club list is here, so you can see what a fantastic network of clubs you are part of.

We've got a lot to cover in this newsletter, so please read through it carefully and share with others in your clubs and teams who are involved in fixtures.

Have a great season!

NEHYL Committee

Match Day Process

It's really important that all teams, from U7 up to U18, understand and follow our match day process. This ensures allocated referees and visiting teams turn up at the right place at the right time; that we follow the Respect principles that we have all signed up to; and that we report results and submit post-match reports in a timely manner. From coaches to club committee members, Divisional Secretaries to league officials, we are all volunteers – and anything to help kids football run smoothly has to be good. There’s a whole stack of useful information on this website – but key steps are summarised in this article →

New Digital Player Transfer

This is designed to make the process simpler and easier to follow for everyone; new club, old club, players parents/guardians, and the League! The form includes an automated workflow so that the relevant party receives an email to approve the transfer or take the next action on the Club Portal. Note Divisional Secretaries do not detach players during the active season and can only act upon a transfer request in the portal once approvals have taken place.

If you need to transfer a player, the receiving club must use the player transfer form to start the process →

Discipline Process & Panel

At our pre-season meeting, the league outlined that we are introducing the NEHYL Discipline Panel which is now in place and unfortunately, we are already receiving lots of reports of misconduct through our new Opposition Team Report via MRCs. Divisional Secretaries will be in contact if MRC scores for players/coaches/spectators are falling below expectations.

In an ideal world the Discipline Panel would have nothing to do – it is in all our interests to try and help significantly reduce cases of ill-discipline at all of our NEHYL games.

Read the information about what will not be tolerated at matches and how reports will be actioned →

Update on Girls Football

We had a fantastic festival and have around 15 clubs fully committed to supporting teams playing U7 & U8 football with NEHYL on Sundays this season – and a few more who are still firming up coaches, teams and numbers. Having girls football played locally = especially at the younger ages – removes the need for significant travel to fixtures and we are seeing clubs embracing our initiative who previously haven’t been able to support girls football.

To find out more, to find a team email girls@nehyl.org.uk and Andrew, Polly or Suzanne will get back to you #LetGirlsPlayLocally

Read the festival feedback and view images here →

Hampshire Cup

Congratulations to all of our teams who made it through to Hampshire County Cup Round 2 – and good luck with your games on 11th November! The round dates are below – please work with your Divisional Secretary and Opposition Manager to rearrange any fixtures postponed due to County Cup commitments.

ROUND DATES

1st Round | Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 October 2023

2nd Round | Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 November 2023

3rd Round | Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 December 2023

4th Round | Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 January 2024

5th Round | Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 February 2024

6th Round | Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 March 2024

Finals | Dates & Venues TBC (late April & May)