Season 24-25 information
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The Derbyshire Girls & Ladies League is pleased to announce Season 24-25 information.  Our Central Venues will be Derby Racecourse Hub & Leesbrook Academy and the season will run from 1st September 2024 to 31st May 2025.  Applications for new teams are being accepted now.

This is for information only, all existing teams that did not resign by the deadline date are automatically entered and approved under FA Rules and Clubs have already been billed accordingly.

All teams will be moved up 1 year group. If you wish and your players are age eligible to remain at their current age group please advise the league ASAP.

U7 will be offered for the first time next season subject to sufficient teams applying.

 

UPDATED INFORMATION

 

Updated playing dates information for Season 24-25

 

Ladies Season will start on September 1st

Girls Season will start on September 7th

 

U7-U8 fixtures will be played at LEESBROOK ACADEMY 3G , kick offs will be 1130 & 1245

 

U7-u13 will then break on 14th December for Christmas and return on January 11th, having December 21st , 28th & Jan 4th OFF

 

U14-Ladies will break on 21/22nd Dec and return on 4/5th January having had 27/28th Dec OFF

 

U7-u13 will run until April 5th and then break for Easter and return on 26th April having had April 12th & 19th OFF

 

U14-Ladies will have the weekend of April 19th/20th OFF

 

Mini Soccer u7-u11 will finish for the season on May 3rd, with Cup Finals being the final games on May 5th Bank Holiday Monday

 

U12-Ladies will continue until all seasons fixtures have been played.

 

Where  seasons are split there will only be 2 phases, Autumn & Winter with the Cup Competition in addition.

 

The Challenge Cup for Youth teams will be renamed The DGLL Challenge Trophy and the winners will keep the winning trophies each season.

 

The DGLL Open Age for season 24-25 will be split into 3 Divisions, the split to be determined but with Division 1 having a minimum of 9 teams and the 2 remaining divisions to be split based on final positions at end of Season 23-24.

 

This will reduce the number of fixtures for lower division teams to a more manageable level.

 

The league will also schedule more midweek fixtures in September & October for those Ladies teams with access to Floodlights, also in order to reduce fixture congestion and will extend the current scheduling process to include more “front loaded” home fixtures for those clubs we have identified from this season as having venues that struggle to cope with the weather.

 

 

U16’s

The DGLL will not be able to run at u16’s next year, further to our recent discussions in respect of the problems facing the current u15 division and the lack of teams/competition available brought on originally by the decision of 3 teams at u14 deciding to play up a year at u16's instead of moving through the year groups i can confirm that the following 3 out of 6 teams currently playing at u15 have resigned siting lack of competition.

 

Ripley Town

Hilton Harriers

Chellaston

 

That leaves just 3 teams and under those circumstances the DGLL is not going to be able to run a u16 division next season.

 

 

U10’s Season 2024-25

 

Further to our recent e mail regarding the possibility of running 9v9 at u10 and subsequent responses, the DGLL can confirm that no consensus was reached by the teams to play at 9v9 and as such the formats for season 24-25 are as previously listed below.

 

The DGLL Management Committee will discuss this further at a scheduled meeting and may introduce 9v9 games for teams towards the end of next season.

 

 

Season 24-25 information

 

The DGLL will provide the following for season 2024-25.

 

This is for information only, all existing teams that did not resign by the deadline date are automatically approved under FA Rules and Clubs have been billed accordingly.

 

All teams will be moved up 1 year group. If you wish and your players are age eligible to remain at their current age group please advise the league ASAP.

 

U7 will be offered for the first time next season subject to sufficient teams applying.

 

Our Central Venues will be Derby Racecourse Hub & Leesbrook Academy

 

Saturday 8-45AM-2PM

Mini soccer 5V5

Derby City central venue LEESBROOK ACADEMY (1130-1400)

u7-u8

 

Mini soccer 7v7

Derby City central venues

u9-u11

 

Youth football 9v9

Derby City central venues

u12-u13

 

Youth football 9V9

home & away u13

 

Youth football 11V11

home & away u14, u15, u16, u18 

 

Sunday football

Open age ladies 11v11

 

Mini soccer & Youth football are Saturday am kick offs.

Open age ladies are Sunday 1-30pm kick offs (10-30am will be available in div 2 & div 3)

 

The DGLL intends to provide Autumn & Winter Seasons for age groups up to and including u13 where numbers allow.

 

Youth teams at ages u13, u14, u15, u16 & u18 are required to source their own pitches, however, should there be available capacity at the central venues the league will allocate pitches on a first come first served basis.

 

u14 u15, u16 & u18 teams wishing to play at a central venue should register their request to secretarydgll@gmail.com as soon as possible. U13 teams have already been canvassed and processed. Any 11v11 pitches will be on grass.

 

Successful entry to the age group(s) applied for is dependent on there being sufficient clubs applying for membership. entry to the competition applied for is conditional on the club’s mandatory participation in the league, cup(s)

 

Please note that NO youth team travelling over 30 miles will be required to kick off before 1100. Kick off times for late morning games must ensure that the game finishes by 2pm.

 

Teams should be aware that midweek games will be fixtured by the League in September, March, April & May.

 

The Open Age & Youth League Season extends from 1st September 2024 to 31st May 2025.

 

Youth Football will Start on September 7th , Ladies on 1st September.

 

Mini Soccer will finish on May 3rd, with Cup Finals on Monday May 5th

 

All youth teams may request a maximum of 3 fixture byes, over the season, giving 28 days’ notice to the league. The bye ONLY covers the day of the game; a further bye request would be required for a midweek fixture.

 

Failure to play on a fixture date incurs a Maximum £100 fine & MANDATORY 3-point deduction in addition to the game being rescheduled.

 

There is NO forfeit of League games by teams. Postponed games are rescheduled.

 

Teams MUST NOT assume that having no fixture on a given date means that a game will not be scheduled and are strongly advised to ensure that they check as early as possible as to player availability. The DGLL can add a fixture under FA Rules with a minimum of 5 (FIVE) days’ notice.

 

Clubs should be aware that whilst every effort will be made to accommodate these requests it may not be possible in all instances.

 

The league will provide referees for central venue games.

 

Teams at u13 and above playing home and away are required to source their own pitches and registered referees, except where the DGLL has agreed to provide a central venue pitch.

 

 

GotFootball

The League will cease to use GotFootball from the end of the season, after 9 years and the software itself will shut down access 90 days later with all info deleted.

 

Player Registrations will be via WGS only and teams will be required to use the FA Matchday app (or use a computer) to input their team sheets , goal scorers etc. Help Docs will change accordingly.

 

Fixtures will be accessed from FULL TIME.

 

DGLL league Registration 2024-25

 

ALL teams that did not resign from the league by the deadline date of 9th March 2024 are automatically re-entered. There is nothing further to do. Any teams that subsequently fail to start next season having not resigned by 9th March are subject to a fine in accordance with the Rules and in accordance with the reminder sent to clubs by the DGLL on 29/1/24 & 23/2/24.

 

The Deadline for Open Age resignations was 31/3/24.

 

New Club/Team registrations

 

All new Cubs should e mail secretarydgll@gmail.com with their team details, club, team name & age group they wish to play at and the DGLL will create the club login for our new website, and you can then submit the team application.

 

All existing Clubs can submit an entry for a NEW Team by completing the application directly with your existing login.

 

Do not send any money with your application. All teams will be invoiced directly upon approval.

 

Player Registration Information

 

Players must be registered and approved in WGS before they can play.

 

A player remains ineligible UNTIL they appear on the Official Team List in Full Time,