Code of Conduct - Youth Team Players

WHEN PLAYING FOR ABBOTS YOUTH I WILL: 

• Always play to the best of my ability and for the benefit of my team 
• Play fairly – I won’t cheat, dive, complain or waste time 
• Respect my team-mates, the other team, the referee or my coach/manager 
• Play by the rules, as directed by the referee 
• Be gracious in victory and defeat – I will shake hands with the other team and referee at the end of the game 
• Listen and respond to what my coach/team manager tells me 
• Understand that a coach has to do what is best for the team and not one individual player 
• Talk to someone I trust or the club welfare officer if I’m unhappy about anything at my club. 
 
I understand that if I do not follow the code, any/all of the following actions may be taken by my club, county FA or The FA: 

I MAY: 
• Be required to apologise to my team-mates, the other team, referee or team manager 
• Receive a formal warning from the coach or the club committee 
• Be dropped or substituted 
• Be suspended from training 
• Be required to leave the club. 
 
All players are expected to behave at all times in a manner that will not bring Abbots Youth Football Club into disrepute in any way.  It is the duty of any team official, parent/carer or spectator to report to the club’s Executive Committee any player who persistently breaches any of our codes of conduct. 
 

Code of Conduct - Carers / Parents / Spectators 
  
I WILL: 
• Remember that children play for FUN 
• Applaud effort and good play as well as success 
• Respect the Referee’s decisions even when you don’t agree with them 
• Appreciate good play from whatever team it comes from 
• Remain behind the touchline and within the Designated Spectators’ Area 
• Let the coach do their job and not confuse the players by telling them what to do 
• Encourage the players to respect the opposition, referee and match officials 
• Support positively and offer players encouragement not criticism 
• Never engage in, or tolerate offensive, insulting or abusive language or behaviour 
 
All spectators/parents/carers are expected to behave at all times in a manner that will not bring Abbots Youth Football Club into disrepute in any way.  Team managers are instructed to report any failure to adhere to the codes of conduct to the club’s Executive Committee. 
 
I understand that if I do not follow the Code, any/all the following actions may be taken: 
 
I MAY BE: 
• Issued with a verbal warning from a club or league official 
• Required to meet with the club, league or CFA Welfare Officer 
• Required to meet with the club committee 
• Obliged to undertake an FA education course 
• Obliged to leave the match venue by the club 
• Requested by the club not to attend future games 
• Suspended or have my club membership removed 
• Required to leave the club along with any dependents.