RULES OF THE WEST WALES

1. Trustees.  The Trustees of the Association shall be the legal owners of the Cup in trust for the Association.

2. Title.  The Cup shall be known as the West Wales Youth Challenge Cup and shall be competed for annually by Clubs in the area of the West Wales Football Association whom the Council shall select, and shall never become the permanent property of any Club.

3. Control.  The Council of the West Wales Football Association, herein after called the Council, shall have the entire control and management of the Competition.

4. Each Club, who must play in the Under 16 Division of their respective League, desirous of competing shall give notice to the Secretary of the association, on or before July 1^st in that season in which the Club proposes to compete, sending at the same time an Entrance Fee of £4.00.

5. Each competing team shall consist of eleven bona-fide players, and, they must have been playing members of their Club at least 14 days preceding the match.  No player will be allowed to register with a competing Club after the 1^st February in each season.  They must not have attained the age of 16 years before the first day of September in the current season.

6. All Clubs shall be drawn together irrespective of geographical position for the First Round in which all byes shall be drawn.

7. The duration of each match shall be 80 minutes.  In the event of the scores being equal at the end of 80 minutes, an extra twenty minutes must be played.  If the scores remain equal after extra-time, the penalty-kick procedure shall apply in all rounds including the Final.

8. The Referee in all rounds prior to the Final shall be paid a fee of £12.00 plus 25 pence per mile travelling expenses.  In the Final Tie the Referee shall receive a memento plus 25 pence per mile travelling expenses.

Match Officials MUST be in attendance at the ground at least 45 minutes prior to kick-off.  Referees must advise the Association of their late arrival and/or the late arrival of Assistant Referees.

9. In the event of a protest being made against a Club playing any player over age, such Club playing him shall produce to the Secretary of the Association, within four days of receipt of the copy of the protest, a copy of the Certificate of Birth of the player named in the protest.  Should the protest fail, the cost of such certificate shall be met by the protesting Club.

10. In all rounds each Club must produce evidence of dates of birth of the team actually playing, for examination by their opponents before the kick-off.

 11.  A Club who has four or more players selected to play in a representative Schoolboy match    on the same day, may request a postponement, provided that at least 7 clear days notice is given to the Association.

Any Club requesting a postponement that has sufficient registered players left to play a match, must fulfil their obligations to their respective League on the same day.

12.  A Club may nominate a maximum of five substitute players, whose names must appear on the team sheet provided, and, handed to the Referee prior to the match. A Club may at its discretion, use ALL of the nominated substitute players, except to replace a player who has been suspended from the game by the Referee.  A Player who has been substituted may not again take part in the match.

The substitution can only be made when play has been stopped and with the permission of the Referee.

13. The Home Club must provide the match ball (size 5).  No two Clubs shall play in similar colours.  If the colours are similar, the HOME club shall make a change, unless mutually agreed.

14. Visiting teams are responsible for their own travelling expenses, and the Home team is responsible for the match expenses, including the match Referee.  In the Semi-final matches, the expenses of the matches shall be shared equally between the Clubs concerned.

15.  In addition to the Cup, the Council will present to the winners, 16 Mementos, and to the runners-up 16 Mementos, or other suitable souvenirs as they may determine.

16.  Except as specifically varied by the foregoing Rules, the rules of the West Wales Intermediate Cup Competition shall apply to this Cup Competition.

17.  Alcohol.  The consumption of Alcohol is prohibited around the playing area of all football grounds and Clubs must comply with any current legal legislation regarding the consumption of alcohol.