DAA Lollipop Rules

LOLLIPOP SOCCER RULES / GUIDELINES
Adopted Spring 2001

1. Lollipop soccer is an instructional and non-competitive league.

2. Each and every player should have fun while learning the basics of the sport.

3. It is limited to players who are four and five years old and are residents of Delhi Township.

4. Each team will consist of no more than eleven players.

5. All effort will be taken to allow all children who want to play with certain other children or certain coaches to be on the same team. This will enhance the fun that we hope all the players will have.

6. Playing time will consist of one hour. The first half-hour of every scheduled time will be practice time; the second half-hour will be a practice game versus a scheduled team.

7. All games will be played using the 7 v 7 concept. This means only six filed players and one goal keeper shall be on the field at any one given time while participating in the practice game.

8. All players will get the same amount of playing time as possible during the practice game. Substitutions will be unlimited. No player shall play a less than half of the scheduled practice game every week.

9. Coaches shall act as referees as well as teachers of the game.

10. All rainouts will be made up and rescheduled at the discretion of the lollipop coordinator.

11. No coach shall alter these rules/guidelines without the consent of the lollipop coordinator.