EVENTS
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Team Competition (11v11)
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Team Competition (5v5)
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Individual Skills
ATTIRE
Shorts, jerseys, stockings and
soccer shoes with soft and yielding cleats shall be worn. Jerseys shall be
marked with 25-cm numbers on the back. Goalies must wear distinguishing colors
from other teammates.
AWARDS
All Soccer Individual Skills
awards will be given on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in Connelly Center Cinema. All Soccer
Team (5v5 and 11v11) awards will be rolling on Sunday beginning at 10:30 a.m. in
the Villanova Room of the Connelly Center.
EQUIPMENT
All athletes must wear shin
guards during competition.
FACILITIES
Players should come dressed for
competition. All games will be played on grass. There will be several heated
tents provided on the fields. All soccer teams may use the same locker rooms as
the volleyball players in the Pavilion or Butler Annex. Soccer athletes may use
the restrooms in Dougherty Hall as well as Mendel Hall.
RULES
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A.
11v11
Competition:
1.
The roster size may not exceed 15 players for this competition.
2.
Divisions are based upon the team skills assessment tests, results from
sectional competition and preliminary round of play. Top players must start
each preliminary or classification game on Friday.
What is
divisioning?
3. The duration of the game shall be minimally two, t20-minute halves.
4. Round robin tournament play will be used for divisions of three or more
teams. A best of three series will be used for divisions of two teams.
5. If overtime is used to break a tie, two 7 1/2-minute "sudden death"
overtime periods are used (first goal scored wins). If the game is still tied
after the overtime periods, penalty kicks will be used to break the tie: five
players shall be selected from the competing players on the field for
each team.
6. The process to be used to break a tie record for
the tournament will be as follows:
a. Head
to head competition (for a two-way tie)
b. Point Differential (all
games for the teams tied within pool play)*
c. Least points scored against
(all games for the teams tied within pool play)
d. Tie
* In the final standings of
round robin competition, a team can only win or lose by a maximum of four goals
per match. For example, a team that wins a match 8-2 will get the maximum + 4
point differential. A team that loses 6-1, will get the maximum - 4 point
differential.
B.
5v5 Competition:
1. The
roster size may not exceed eight players for this competition.
2. Divisions are based upon the team skills assessment scores and preliminary
round of play.
Top
players must start each preliminary or classification game on Friday.
3. The duration of the game shall be two equal periods of 15 minutes with a
half-time interval of five minutes.
4. Round robin tournament play will be used for divisions of three or more
teams. A best of three series will be used for divisions of two teams.
5.
If
overtime is used to break a tie, two, 5-minute, "sudden death" overtime periods
are used (first goal scored wins). If the game is still tied after the overtime
periods, penalty kicks will be used to break the tie: five players shall be
selected from the competing players on the field for each team.
6.
If a
player is expelled from the game (two yellow or one red card issued), the team
is to play with one player down for either two minutes or until the next goal is
scored.
7.
The process to be used to break a tied record for the tournament
will be the same as in 11v11.
C.
Individual Skills
Competition:
1.
Individual skills athletes may not participate with either the 11-a-side or
5-a-side teams unless they are listed as a team alternate and activated before
the competition. If they are activated to team competition, they cannot
participate in the individual skills competition.
2. In the medal round, each player should perform each event twice. The total
score from the two rounds (in the medal round) is added together to give
the final score.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All teams must stay until the
end of preliminaries in order to be properly divisioned. Schedules for
Saturday’s games will be given out at the Head Coaches’ Meeting on Friday
evening. Scores will be available on Saturday for those respective sites only
at the scoring tents. Although some information is available, the head coaches
are still responsible for determining where their teams are to play next. In
the case of inclement weather, information will not be easily accessible, and it
will be important that coaches are prepared to know where their teams should go
in advance. Individual skills athletes will rotate once to all three skills for
preliminaries and twice for finals. All three skills areas will be conducted
simultaneously on the eastern side of Austin Field (commonly referred to as
“Sheehan Field”).
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT LDR/LDW
IS AN ON CAMPUS VENUE AND THAT PART OF THE COURSE RUNS AROUND THE PERIMETER OF
MENDEL FIELD. WE ASK ALL DELEGATIONS AND SPECTATORS KEEP CLEAR OF THE COURSE AS
WE CANNOT HAVE ANY OBSTRUCTIONS DURING THE RACE.
Friday, November 3rd
2:30 p.m. -
6:00 p.m. Soccer 5v5 Preliminaries (Austin
Field & Mendel Field)
9:00
p.m. Head Coaches’
Meeting (Bartley Hall, Room 3001)
Saturday, November
4th
8:00
a.m. Individual Skills
Competition (Austin Field/Sheehan Field)
8:00
a.m. 5v5 Competition
Begins (Austin & Mendel Fields)
8:00
a.m. 11v11 Competition Begins
(Villanova Stadium)
1:00
p.m. Individual Skills Awards
(Connelly Center Cinema)
2:00 p.m.
11v11 Competition Ends
6:00
p.m.
5v5 Competition Ends
8:00
p.m. Head Coaches’
Meeting (Bartley Hall, Room 3001)
Sunday, November
5th
8:00
a.m. 5v5
Competition (Austin Field & Mendel Field)
8:00
a.m. 11v11
Competition (Villanova Stadium)
10:45
a.m.
5v5 & 11v11 Team
Awards (Villanova Room, Connelly Center)
*
5v5 & 11v11 Team Awards will be on a rolling basis beginning at 10:30 a.m.
SPORTS RULES COMMITTEE (per respective venue)
Venue Coordinator
Lisa Werner (Austin), Tommy Shireman (VU Stadium)
Kaitlin McQuade (Mendel) Melissa Perez (Individual Skills)
SOPA Sport Director Mark
Weinmann
Head Coach
TBA
Alt. Head Coach
TBA
