401.5 POACHING
There is to be NO improper contact between the prospective team and the player/parents of currently
registered and/or rostered players. Any coach or member of a team having contact with a player after a
player is registered and/or rostered, without first obtaining written permission from that player’s coach,
will be construed as having had improper contact with a player, and such action can result in a charge of
poaching.
1. Improper contact is defined as any communication with a player other than the most casual, cordial
communication necessary such as congratulations at the end of a match or similar such conversations.
This contact specifically includes, but is not limited to, players participating in practices, training
sessions, scrimmages or other soccer-related functions.
2. Improper contact shall also include, but is not limited to, meetings with players/parents, attendance at
team social functions when the player is not registered to that team, etc.
3. Any such improper contact, no matter how generated, is prohibited without prior written notification
and written consent of the player’s current head coach, the club director of coaching and/or players, or
the Agent of Record of the club to which the player is currently registered and/or rostered. A
coach/volunteer or member of a team having contact with a player is charged with the knowledge of
that player’s registration and/or roster status and shall be held accountable for any unauthorized
contact with any player currently not rostered to his team, regardless of how that contact is initiated or
by whom.
A. No coach, assistant coach, trainer, team representative, registered player, parent or advertisement may
offer any kind of inducement to recruit a player and/or to transfer from his/her respective team, during
the seasonal year as defined September 1 though August 31.
Inducing a player includes, but is not limited solicitation to leave the current affiliate, offering a
currently rostered player a roster spot on an existing team, or a roster spot for the next seasonal year.
Coaches are responsible for the actions of the all of the above listed participants of their team.
B. Players:
All currently registered players shall become free agents at the completion of FYSA’s State Cup Final
Four or elimination from National Championship Competitions (whichever is later) or at a date as
may be set by the BOD.
There is to be NO improper contact between the prospective team and the player/parents of currently
registered and/or rostered players. Any coach or member of a team having contact with a player after a
player is registered and/or rostered, without first obtaining written permission from that player’s coach,
will be construed as having had improper contact with a player, and such action can result in a charge of
poaching.
1. Improper contact is defined as any communication with a player other than the most casual, cordial
communication necessary such as congratulations at the end of a match or similar such conversations.
This contact specifically includes, but is not limited to, players participating in practices, training
sessions, scrimmages or other soccer-related functions.
2. Improper contact shall also include, but is not limited to, meetings with players/parents, attendance at
team social functions when the player is not registered to that team, etc.
3. Any such improper contact, no matter how generated, is prohibited without prior written notification
and written consent of the player’s current head coach, the club director of coaching and/or players, or
the Agent of Record of the club to which the player is currently registered and/or rostered. A
coach/volunteer or member of a team having contact with a player is charged with the knowledge of
that player’s registration and/or roster status and shall be held accountable for any unauthorized
contact with any player currently not rostered to his team, regardless of how that contact is initiated or
by whom.
A. No coach, assistant coach, trainer, team representative, registered player, parent or advertisement may
offer any kind of inducement to recruit a player and/or to transfer from his/her respective team, during
the seasonal year as defined September 1 though August 31.
Inducing a player includes, but is not limited solicitation to leave the current affiliate, offering a
currently rostered player a roster spot on an existing team, or a roster spot for the next seasonal year.
Coaches are responsible for the actions of the all of the above listed participants of their team.
B. Players:
All currently registered players shall become free agents at the completion of FYSA’s State Cup Final
Four or elimination from National Championship Competitions (whichever is later) or at a date as
may be set by the BOD.
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