Recreational Team Formation

The following guidelines are intended to provide a balanced, fair, competitive, and enjoyable soccer experience for all players.

The general team formation guidelines are as follows:

            1) Player’s subdivision

            2) Player’s school

3) Neighboring subdivision

            4) Team with the greatest need

Core Player

In order to encourage early registration, KSC allows players who register by the core deadline to automatically return to the team they were on during the most recent preceding Fall season.

If your child does not register by the core deadline, elects not to return to their Fall team, did not play for KSC in the most recent preceding Fall season, or is new to KSC, your child is considered a “pool player” and will be assigned to a team using the general team formation guidelines.

Exception:

U4/U5/U6 age groups and former KSC players who did not play in the Fall season immediately preceding the season being applied for do not have core team privileges. Coring begins at the U7 age group.   

Registration

All registration forms are accepted independently. Registrations submitted from groups of players with the intent to play together as a team will not be accepted in that context. Such forms will be accepted on an individual basis and will be subject to the team formation policies outlined in this section.

Exception:

Co-Ed teams will be allowed to submit player registrations as a group, to allow a “friends with friends” situation and to promote continuation of play at the older age groups. Forming dominant teams will not be allowed. Teams having an overall goal differential of five (5) goals or greater may be dissolved by a KSC board decision. Except in special circumstances and at the discretion of the KSC Vice President – Team Formation, U16 players will not be allowed to play in the Co-Ed age group. U15 players will not be allowed to play Co-Ed.

Just registering does not guarantee being placed on a team. Players will not be placed on a team until the registration fee has been paid. Generally, registrations will be accepted until the teams are full or the second weekend of play has been completed.

• Requests

Parents are allowed to submit requests for specific team placement when registering their child. Such requests will be reviewed, considered, and decided upon by the Vice President – Team Formation, or a designated representative. Requests will be considered for reasonableness and in accordance with KSC’s recreation team formation guidelines outlined below and at the beginning of this section.

• All requests are to be made through online registration. Requests made on paper registration forms and turned into the office will not be entered or honored.
• All requests to play with a team that finished in the top three positions of the two most recent seasons will not be honored.
• If the request is based on carpool reasons, you may be required to provide proof.
• Denied requests may be appealed by the parent(s) in writing to the Vice President-Team Formation’s Appeal Committee. The decision on the appeal is final.
• Player placement requests and appeals from anyone other than the parent(s) of the child involved will not be accepted.

• Returning Teams

For the Spring season and/or immediate subsequent Fall season, your child

            will return to his/her Fall team unless:

• Your child’s Fall team was dissolved by a KSC board decision for

having an average overall goal differential greater than five (5) goals per game in the U10 and older age groups and seven (7) goals per game in the U7-U9 age groups. These teams likely won a majority of their matches in a lop-sided manner. The players may be distributed to other teams within the age group for the Spring season. (This rule will also apply to teams from the Spring season. These players may be distributed to other teams within the age group for the next Fall season.)

            b)   You indicate on your child’s registration form not to return to your Fall

                    team.

c)    Your child’s Fall team does not form because not enough players

                    return to it in the Spring season.

            d)    Your child does not register by the core deadline.

• Players playing out of their age group

a)         Parent(s) may request their child play in an older age group. The request is to be made in writing to the Vice President – Recreation Team Formation before the season of play.

Decisions on such requests will be made by the Vice President – Recreation Team Formation on a case by case basis, but are generally only allowed in the following situations:

• The player has an older sibling playing on a KSC team no greater than one age group ahead of the play up’s proper age group.
• The player has demonstrated extraordinary dominate field play in his/her proper KSC age group.

If the request is granted, the child will advance through KSC’s DIV IV/III age divisions with the older age group unless the child’s parent(s) make a written request to the Vice President – Recreation Team Formation to return their child to the appropriate age division.

b)         No player may play in a lower or younger age division without approval from TYSA. Any team with an approved “play down” player will not be eligible for TYSA or STYSA post season play.

c)         Players with birthdays in August will have the option of playing in the age group of their normal school grade, (September 1st through August 31st ), or in the age group of their soccer birth year, (August 1st through July 31st).

• Coed

The coed program is for U17-U19 players, however U16 players may request the KSC Vice President – Recreation Team Formation, at his/her discretion, to allow them to participate in the program. Players on high school teams, (UIL/TAPPS), teams may play coed at KSC. Players registered on other recreation, Division II, Super II, Division I, or Premier League teams are not eligible to play coed at KSC.

All teams participating in the KSC coed program must be registered with KSC. There is no inter-club play between KSC and other clubs.

There will be up to 25 players per team. It is recommended that a team have equal number of boys and girls. The Vice President – Recreation Team Formation has two options when forming coed teams. The first is accepting an entire already formed team, i.e. - teams formed by at a high school or by a specific high school activity. The second is to group individual player registrations together.