SEGL – Women's CHAMPIONS LEAGUE REGULATION 2021

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 8 participating teams at one stage as following order:

A. The SEWGL Champion and de host team.

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

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

D. 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;

- Each team can register 3 foreign players, and only 2 can be non-qualified players for Paralympic games.

- The rule of foreign players is similar to that applied in SEGL.

6- The Stage

- There will be a maximum of 8 teams in the final stage;

- If there are 8 teams the system will be 2 groups of 4 teams in round robin;

Quarter finals with the following game formula:

1st Group A vs 4th Group B (QF1)

2nd Group B vs 3rd Group A (QF2)

1st Group B vs 4th Group A (QF3)

2nd Group A vs 3rd Group B (QF4)

Semifinal with the following game formula:

Winner QF1 vs Winner QF2

Winner QF3 vs Winner QF4

The losers of the semifinals will compete for the bronze medal;

The winners of the semifinals will compete for the gold medal;

- If there are less than 8 teams, SWGL will be played in the following model:

Teams will play a single round robin;

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

The losers of the semifinals will compete for the bronze medal;

The winners of the semifinals will compete for the gold medal;

- Top three teams will receive SEWGL Season 2020 medals;

- The winning team will receive the same trophy as the champion SEGL.

- Will also be awarded the best scorers 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

- The final round will be May 13-17, 2020 in Espoo, Finland, hosted by Old Power.

- The Match Calendars will be held up to 30 days prior to the tournament.

- A team that has the same technical team as the male team participating in SEGL must inform EGCA 60 days prior to the start of the Tournament and thus will not play at the same time and will always have twenty minutes to prepare their team for the match after it is over. the other game of your club.

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.