Disqualification Report Instructions

December 2010

Effective February 7, 2005 any coach, player, team attendant, or spectator ejected from any contest for any reason, at any level, is suspended indefinitely from participation, practice, or attending any sports contest, until a meeting can take place between the school administration, coach, player, parents/guardians, and CIF staff member(s).  Following that meeting, a determination of penalty will be made and there will be no appeal.

Yellow cards are not formally reported however a caution to a coach requires an email description of the incident to Bob Peterson.

To report disqualification's (Red Cards) use the CIF & Player Ejection Form on the Forms page. Complete all boxes. Your descriptions of the incident must contain specific wording. Which rule under rule 12-8- was the reason. If the reason is 12-8-3-g, insulting, offensive or abusive language of gesture, you must list the exact words and gestures made.

Unless you have a riot on your hands, the classification for all disqualifications should be "All Other Ejections" and the second box is to be checked.

Unsporting conduct, gross or otherwise, is not a disqualification per the NFHS Rule book. Do not use the word "unsporting" in your description of the incident. Use proper soccer terminology, e.g. "a direct kick foul with excessive force".

My own personal opinion is that the misconduct must be extremely unusual and violent to constitute "Gross" Misconduct. An example would be "she grabbed her hair and pulled the opponent to the ground and then kicked her opponent and called her a "f_____g b___h". All three constitute Gross Misconduct; any of the three by themselves would be "Other" misconduct unless extremely violent in your opinion.

In emailing your reports you must give specific individual names to the file. Three report files with the same name do not make processing them at CIF easy. Best to use the site, date and person's name in the file name. Example "Helix 12-09-08 Smith.doc"

Bob Petterson