Coral Springs Youth Soccer

Category: rules

Rules of the game

  • Soccer Bowl Tournament Seeding and General Structure

    As we enter the midway point of the season, CSYS wanted to send out a quick note as to how the playoffs will be seeded and conducted.

    Soccer Bowl Tournament seeding and general structure:

    First Round: All teams will be placed in groupings based on their standings at the end of play on January 26th.  When there are teams with fewer played games than others, those teams will have their most recent results removed until all teams have played the same number of games.  Therefore, some games may count for one team and not the other with respect to playoff standings and seedings.  (NOTE:  ALL games for the entire regular season are used to calculate regular season division champions).  

    The U10s for both girls and boys will have a “RED” and “BLUE” tournament.

    ·       For the girls there are 12 teams in 2 divisions.  The top 6 teams will play in the “red” tournament and the bottom 6 teams will play in the “blue” tournament.  The top two teams in each division and the next 2 teams overall qualify for the “red” tournament.  Division leaders will be seeded 1-2 with division second place teams seeded 3-4 and the wild cards 5-6.  The remaining 6 teams will be placed in the blue tournament and seeded 1-6 based strictly on total points regardless of division.

    ·       For the boys, there are 22 teams in 4 divisions.  The top 12 teams will play in the “red” tournament and the bottom 10 teams will play in the “blue” tournament.  The top two teams in each division and the next 4 teams overall will qualify for the “red” tournament.  Division leaders will be seeded 1-4 with division second place teams seeded 5-8 and the wild cards 9-12.  The remaining 10 teams will be placed in the blue tournament and seeded 1-10 based strictly on total points regardless of division.

    The U12 Boys will have a “RED” and “BLUE” tournament.

    ·       For the boys, there are 17 teams in 2 divisions.  The top 9 teams will play in the “red” tournament and the bottom 8 teams will play in the “blue” tournament.  The top three teams in each division and the next three teams overall will qualify for the “red” tournament.  Division leaders will be seeded 1-2 with division second place teams seeded 3-4, division 3rd place teams seeded 5-6 and the wild cards 7-9.  The remaining 8 teams will be placed in the blue tournament and seeded 1-8 based strictly on total points regardless of division.

    All other age groups will have a single tournament for all teams.  In tournaments that have multiple pools, division champions will be placed in opposite pools with the remaining teams seeded regardless of original division.

    Full details and tournament schedule will be distributed to everyone the weekend of Feb 1-2 via e-mail.

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    Regards

    -Scott

    Scott Rush

  • Is This Offside?

    Did anyone watch the game between Liverpool and Manchester City on April 10th? The game ended in a 2-2 tie. I called a friend of mine after and he whined for fifteen minutes that the Man City’s second goal should have been disallowed because there were four players in an offside position creating chaos. I looked at it again. I can see why the referee did not call offsides. The four players in question were all slowly going away from the goal. The ball was passed to a player that was onside and was not near to the the offside players. But I can also see what my friend was saying. The four players may have acted disinterested in the ball and made no attempt to go towards it when it was played. But they were not that far away and could easily have made a play if they wanted to.

    Look at this video. At 7:35 you can see the ball being kicked by the passer and the four players clearly between the defenders and the goal.

    This happens all the time. The game does not have a rigid set of rules. They are interpreted by the referee at the time of play. It’s no wonder we have disagreements with referees.