APPENDIX A

CUP RULES

1. All teams registered with the league must enter the respective cup competition as directed by the league and pay a fee to be determined by the league.
2. Each round will be drawn. Draw will be made by the League Management Committee. First drawn club will have choice of ground. Semi-finals to be played on pitches as directed by the League Management Committee.

In semi-final matches, if nets and corner flags are not supplied and erected by the host club, the first drawn club shall supply and erect nets; the second drawn club shall supply and erect corner flags. In all rounds and semi-finals both clubs shall supply a suitable match ball.

1. Date of rounds to be decided by League Management Committee, conference dates may be set.
2. In the event that a ground is unavailable, the tie will be reversed. In ties that are reversed the second drawn club becomes the home club. All cup matches will take precedence over league matches.
3. For each round of the cup, in the event of a draw at full time, extra time of 10 minutes each way will be played. Should a draw still result, penalties will be taken as per the rules laid down in Appendix B.
4. A player shall only play for one team in one age group in the cup competition .No player registered after the 1^st March each year may take part in the cup competition. Any club that plays an ineligible player will be struck out of the competition and the tie awarded to the opponents. A player must be registered 14 days immediately previous to the match.
5. Nets and corner flags must be provided in all rounds.
6. In all rounds and semi-finals referees will be appointed by the league.                                        

In all rounds, but not semi-finals or finals, if the appointed referee is not available then league rule 20.2 applies.

Referees fees and expenses to be paid by the home club in rounds and by the league in semi-finals and final. Ground and dressing room fees to be paid as before stated.

9.         Colours – in the event of colour clashes the following will apply  :-

a) In all rounds and semi-finals league rule 20.3 will apply, the second drawn team will be classed as the away team irrespective of changes to the venue.

b) In finals colours will be mutually agreed by the two clubs, or by toss of a coin. Teams wishing to play in colours not registered with the league must change.

10.       Any club who fails to play an arranged cup game on the appointed date will be struck out of the

Competition, unless permission has been given for a postponement.

1. NOTIFICATION. - In all rounds league rule 20.1 shall apply. The first drawn club shall be classed as the home club.
2. All league rules will apply if not before amended.

APPENDIX B

KICKS FROM THE PENALTY MARK – PROCEDURE

1. The referee will choose the goal at which all the kicks will be taken
2. The referee shall toss a coin and the team whose captain wins the toss shall take the first kick.
3. a)      Subject to the terms of the following paragraphs (c) & (d) both teams shall take five kicks.
4. b)      The kicks shall be taken alternatively

c)      If before both teams have taken five kicks, one has scored more goals than the other could, even if it were to complete five kicks, the taking of kicks shall cease.

d)      If after both teams have taken five kicks, both have scored the same number of goals, or have not scored any goals, the taking of kicks shall continue in the same order, until such time that both have taken an equal number (not necessarily five more kicks) and one team has scored one more goal than the other.

1. The team which scores the greater number of goals, whether the number of kicks is in accordance with the terms of the foregoing paragraph (3) (3c) or (3d) shall qualify for the next round of the competition or shall be declared the winner of the competition as the case may be.
2. (a) With the exception referred to in the following paragraph (b) only the players who are the field of play at the end of the match, which shall mean the end of extra time insofar as a match in which extra time is authorised is concerned, and any who have left the field temporarily, with or without the referee’s permission, are not on the field of play at that time, shall take part in the taking of kicks.

(b) Provided that his team has not already made use of the maximum number of substitutes permitted by the rules of the competition under which the match was played, a goalkeeper who sustains an injury during the taking of kicks, and who, because of the injury, is unable to continue as a goalkeeper may be replaced by a substitute.

5.  Each kick shall be taken by a different player and not until all eligible players of any team including the goalkeeper, or the named substitute by whom he was replaced in terms of paragraph 4 as the case may be, have taken a kick, may a player from the same team take another kick.

6. Subject to the terms of paragraph 4 any player who is eligible, may change places with his goalkeeper at any time during the kicks.

7. Other than the player taking the kick from the penalty mark, and the two goalkeepers, all players shall remain within the centre circle whilst the taking of kicks is in progress.

8. The goalkeeper who is a colleague of the kicker shall take up a position within the field of play outside the penalty area at which the penalty kicks are being taken behind the line which runs parallel with the goal line and at least 10 yards from the penalty mark.

9. Unless stated to the contrary in the foregoing paragraphs 1 to 8 the laws of the game and the International Board decisions relating thereto, shall, insofar as they can, apply to the taking of kicks.

NB  In the event of light falling before the end of the taking of kicks from the penalty mark, the result shall be decided by the toss of a coin or the drawing of lots.