Team Values

Team Selection

Aim

• To set out clearly how players are selected for fixtures for the benefit of Players and Parents alike, and to ensure fairness and inclusiveness.

Criteria

• Skill level
• Playing experience
• Attendance at training
• Effort and commitment
• Fitness

Inclusivity

• Every child should have the opportunity to play in matches at the appropriate level. Playing a fixture against another club is an important part of a player’s development

Excellence

• Coaches have a duty to play their strongest teams at some fixtures.
• Coaches have the right to select their best team based on their knowledge of the players and, when requested, will explain their decision to players and parents.
• Players not selected for these teams have the right to ask where they need to improve to gain a place on such a team.

Friendly fixtures

• A chance to play in these fixtures will be made available to all players in a group, regardless of their ability.
• It is the aim of all Coaches to ensure that, over the course of a season, as many children as possible are given the opportunity to play in a fixture.
• Finding time during the league season, however, affect the extent to which this aspiration is achieved.

Movement between teams

• Movement between teams is encouraged and players should not take their place in any team for granted.
• All players are expected to willingly play for whichever team they have been selected for.