In Attendance - N.Smith, A.Ahmed, S.Stott, K.Stephens, J.Riley and a delegate from each team.

N.Smith - welcomed all teams, and was hoping that things get better soon with the challenges of covid and is hoping that the league will kick off by October.
We will play only league games for the first few weeks, before we start any cup competitions.
The Divisional Cups will be a straight knockout competition, this year, as we have 4 leagues of 8 teams.
The leagues have been formed as follow -

Division 1
Rochdale Sports,  Radcliffe Vets A,  Failsworth Homeguard,  Queen Lizzy,  Horwich St Mary’s,  B.L.G.C.,  Old Boltonians,  Radcliffe Old Boys A.

Division 2
Salford Waggon,  AFC Dobbies,  Turton Vets,  Radcliffe Old Boys B,  Bolton Wyresdale,  Gidlow Athletics,  Westbury Vets,  Royal Farnworth.

Division 3
AFC Darwen,  Moss Bank Vets,  Tika Taka,  Stoneclough Vets,  Ainsworth Vets,  Heaton Casuals,  Blackrod Town,  Eagley Vets.

Division 4
Atherton Town Vets,  Radcliffe Vets B,  Lever Arms,  Deans Youth Vets,  Wigan Town,  North Walkden,  Tottington Utd,  Astley and Tyldsley.

A.Ahmed.  I’m hoping to register the league as soon as I can so we can start the season.

All teams must be registered with the F.A. and will need to have a Covid Risk Assesment done, and a copy of this sent to any team due to be playing at their venue, along with a list of players and officials that will be present.

All new teams have paid their fees. All teams need to put players photo id onto a memory stick and brought to the next meeting.

K.Stephens - All teams have handed in their application forms, 32 teams.

We have lost a couple of young referees due to joining the forces and starting university, but we have enough referees to cover.

Any changes to team contacts etc. need to be emailed, or text to the Secretary asap, before the handbooks are printed.

A.Ahmed - Next season, we will be going onto the whole game system to register all players etc. Help will be available with this.

 

Next Meeting  Friday 2nd October 2020