SEWGL Regulation

SUPER EUROPEAN WOMEN’S GOALBALL LEAGUE (SEWGL) REGULATION

2019

1- The Super European Women’s Goalball League

- The Super European Women's Goalball League is an European Goalball Club Association competition;

- To determine the strongest European women’s goalball club team in SUPER EUROPEAN WOMEN'S GOALBALL LEAGUE (SEWGL), determining the European Champion Goalball Club;

- To allow the best European goalball club teams to compete with each other;

- To proclaim goalball and to motivate people with visual disabilities to practise this sport;

- To support creation of goalball fan clubs and encourage their activity.

2- Management

- The Executive Board of EGCA;

- The Tournament Director;

- The Host Team;

- The Institucional Partners;

- EGCA will appoint a Delegate as its institutional representative for the event.

3- Competition rules

- All games are played in accordance with the official IBSA goalball rules;

4- Participating Teams

- There are maximum 4 participating teams at one stage as following order:

A. Champions of national league from every country of the division. We use order, which is the position of country in European Championships.

B. 2nd best team from countries, where is own national league.

C. If there are still free spots at one stage a place will be given in order for a club, which comes from a country, which has the highest position in European Championships.

5- Composition of participating teams

- Participating teams can register maximum six (6) players to their line-up during the tournament;

- There can be maximum three (3) persons in coach and staff;

6- The Stage

- There will be four teams at the final stage;

- Teams will play a single round robin;

- 1st team of round robin will meet 4th team of round robin and 2nd team of round robin will meet 3rd team of round robin in the semifinals;

- Loosers of the semifinals will play in the bronze medal match;

- Winners of the semifinals will play in the gold medal match;

- Three best teams will get medals of SEWGL Season 2019;

- There will be awarded also the best scorer of the season.

7- Points

- Teams will earn 3 points from a victory, 1 point from a tie and 0 points from a loss;

- Teams ranking in the tournament with round robin will be determined as follow:

A. Earned points;

B. Goal Ratio;

C. Made Goals;

D. If parameters A - C are equal between two teams, better is a team, which has won their common match;

E. If the common match has finished tie, better is a team, which has lead at half time;

F. If parameters are still equal and two teams are competing the victory of the stage, there will be organized extra throws competition to determine the winner of the stage.

8- Schedule of the stage

- Friday 22nd March 2019: arrival of teams - chance for teams to have one hour practice in the play hall of the final stage - Opening Game – dinner (until 20h00);

- Saturday 23rd: March 2019: Round robin matches / team (total 5 matches);

- Sunday 24th: Semifinals - Bronze medal match – Final - Close Ceremony.

9- Referees

- Table officials and goal judges are from the host country.

- The referees are invited according to the list of level II & level III referees of IBSA.

- There can be maximum three referees from host country.

10- Chief Referee

The Tournament Director will name in co-operation with EGCA Delegate a chief referee, who has following responsibilities:

1. Organize work of goal judges and table officials;

2. Fill in the tournaments’ protocols and provide teams with this information;

3. Take care of the courts’ technical requirements, change game balls, remove all defects as soon as possible;

11- Protest

Protest will be analyzed only in case if officials‘ mistake may have influenced game score for the benefit of one team.

If after a match a coach is sure that officials made a harm to the team, he/she may write a protest. Protest is equivalent to 100 Euros. It is given to the chief referee within 1 hour after the end of the match. If the protest is acknowledged, the money is given back. If not, the money goes to SEGL prize fund.

12- Infractions, reasonable for a protest:

A. Mistakes in running the main game clock (video records can be provided);

B. Infraction of the 10 seconds rule (8-12s) (video records can be provided);

C. Goal from out of court line is scored (video records can be provided, if recorded from the back of the Goal line);

D. The 3rd time throw penalty was given but the person threw only twice or threw the 3rd time throw but referees did not penalize for this (video records can be provided);

E. Players took off their eyeshades when the match had not finished yet (video records can be provided);

F. Other rude mistakes of the referees.

The protest is considered if the mistake of the couch could change the result of the match and one team gets an advantage.