Halloween Notice

As Halloween approaches, we would ask that you talk to your players and parents about bonfires in and around football pitches. The damage from one bonfire can take over a year to repair. Bonfires reduce the number of usable pitches and thereby reduce the amount our children can train and play matches. Bearing in mind the demand for the use of pitches across the region, our aim is to prevent a reduction in pitch availability while preserving our public playing fields. Can you please share the attached video on your social media platforms and share with your coaches and players.

Please help raise awareness and combat Halloween bonfires, in cooperation with An Garda Siochana and funded by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council as part of an overall Halloween Safety Awareness campaign.

 

 

 

DDSL X FAI Cup (Womens/Mens) Finals Offer

Clubs/Schools offer for the upcoming FAI Cup Finals, see links below:

Sports Direct Women’s FAI Cup Final, Athlone Town AFC v Shelbourne FC, Tallaght Stadium, Sunday October 20th:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=J4TEMnpsjU-111CSOsx7t_JRhVfaC0ZGgfvJShvNnzVUQTVKMEJEUTZRV0FCM0xWNjc3RkRBNUYzSi4u

 

Sports Direct Men’s FAI Cup Final, Aviva Stadium, Sunday November 10th:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=J4TEMnpsjU-111CSOsx7t_JRhVfaC0ZGgfvJShvNnzVUME9YMzlSOVNDTVJJT09LQ0ROWEJSMkdJSS4u

 

DDSL Club Secretaries Meeting NEW DATE

Please note the DDSL Club Secretaries Meeting scheduled for next Thursday 10th October has been cancelled due to the Men’s Nations League Irish International fixture Finland v Ireland. This was an oversight on our part & thanks to Elaine Harrington Peamount Utd for bringing it to our attention during the week. Apologies for the oversight & looking forward to a Win on Thursday.

 

Details of the re-scheduled meeting is as follows:

DDSL Club Secretaries Meeting

 

Please note the next DDSL Club Secretaries meeting will now take place as follows:

 

  • Date:  Thursday 24th October 2024

 

  • Time: 7.15pm to 9.15pm

 

  • Venue:  National Sports Campus Conference Room (Beside FAI H/O)

 

  • All clubs are required to provide a representative in the absence of their secretary.

 

See you all on Thursday 24th October 2024 & once again apologies for any inconvenience.

 

Notice to Parents – Player Registration

All players must be registered to play in the DDSL

If you have not registered – Do it Now!

Ensure your child is protected when they play!

Link to register

https://ddsl.ie/registration/

Important Notice – Club Secretaries

Dear Secretary,

We are writing to inform all clubs that the DDSL Disciplinary Unit has issued several sanctions to clubs following red cards issued to unregistered players over the last few weeks.

See details of the sanctions below.

Please note that following issuance of a red card sanction in the above game which has highlighted the player concerned is unregistered and was ineligible to play , the Disciplinary Committee has issued the following decision.

Fine: €100.00 to the Club.

Sanction; loss of Match with 3 points awarded to opposition and a further 6 points deduction.

The Disciplinary Committee, having considered the match delegate’s report and all other information available to them, finds a breach of Rule Section 2 , Sub section 1, Rule 1.1, Rule 1.3 and Rule 5.1  of the current DDSL rule book issued in August 2024 and sanctions your Club/Individual  with the above referenced fine and or sanction.

https://ddsl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DDSL-Rule-Book-2024-2025-Season-D3.pdf


IT IS IMPORTANT ALL PLAYERS ARE REGISTERED,PLACED ON TEAM PANELS BEFORE THEY PLAY TO ENSURE INSURANCE COVER IS IN PLACE AND ARE IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULES, AS SANCTIONS ARE QUITE ONEROUS ON BOTH PLAYERS AND CLUBS.

 

Please be advised that the league is carrying out checks on player registration, Panel /Player placements and the number of players allocated to panels over the next two weeks to ensure

the compliance, integrity of the rules and competitions.

Thanking you for your co-operation in this regard.

Referees Beginners Course

Please see below the dates & links for the upcoming ‘Online Referee Beginners Course’ to be run by the FAI. We ask that all clubs circulate these dates to all members to ensure more Referees are allocated to the DDSL where we continue to be short of Referees.

Please note all DDSL fixtures & allocation of Referees will be published every Sunday at 7pm.

If there is no Referee allocated to your fixture from our Referee Allocator Killian Travers, the intention of the DDSL is to ensure that all children deserve to play ,any game that has no referee allocated, the home team is asked to provide a referee to ensure the game is played. Given that the fixtures & allocation of Refs are available on a Sunday evening…the clubs will now have up to 6 days to source their own Referee.

Please forward on any ‘Potential Referees’ you can source for your games to Referees@ddsl.ie so these Referees can be pre-approved by the DDSL.

Once you have sourced a Referee….. in the event of no Referee allocation from us…please e-mail Killian with the name of the Referee so we have a record for Report/Disciplinary issues/Insurance etc for these fixtures.

Please ensure to contact your opposition & Referee early in the week to confirm your fixture.

 

Courses & Links

 

Online Referee Beginners Course – 16/17 October 2024 (7-10pm) – https://faiconnect.ie/mycomet/private/seminars/26044051

Online Referee Beginners Course – 4/5 November 2024 (7-10pm) – https://faiconnect.ie/mycomet/private/seminars/26044284

Online Referee Beginners Course – 26/27 November 2024 (7-10pm) – https://faiconnect.ie/mycomet/private/seminars/26044428

IMPORTANT NOTICE ON PLAYER REGISTRATIONS

All Players must be approved to play in the DDSL each season for their club via our registration portal on the DDSL website.

As of 5pm Friday 6th September , with over 33,000 applications received ,Players born 2007 to 2012 are all approved by our team.

665 applications have been rejected for ‘’needs more information ‘’are not eligible until

actioned by the parent and approved by the league.

ONLY APPROVED PLAYERS CAN BE PLACED ON CLUBS TEAM PANELS.

With all players due to play next weekend it is recommended that all players complete registration

by Wednesday 11th to allow time for approvals to be processed as we are expecting a further 15,000 registrations.

We would remind everyone to follow the correct ID/Photo requirements to ensure approval happens and your child can play.

Please refer to help on the web and videos etc to ensure smooth registrations.

We have dealt with over 1000 rejected photos,400 no ID’s and 30 forged ID’s. Which results in duplicate work for our team.

Thank you to all involved especially our approvals team who are putting in long hours to ensure your child can play!

“Laying The Foundations: Working With The Youngest Players” – DDSL Coach Education

We will be having a Workshop, “Laying The Foundations: Working With The Youngest Players” in the Conference Centre in Abbotstown on the 23rd September 7pm-9pm. This will be an indoor classroom based Workshop focussed on Coaches working with the youngest players aged 4-8 years of age.

Please could you forward it to the coaches in your club and If you or any of your coaches would like to attend please complete the link below.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6BSSFHK

Thank you

Barry Ferguson

DDSL Referees 24/25 Important Information

On behalf of everyone in the DDSL ,we welcome and thank you for assisting us for the coming season, it is appreciated.

As promised from our recent meeting ,we attach the rules of the ddsl for the coming season.

We have added to our website (under Downloads) match cards, red card reports, rules etc. should you require these. We will ask clubs to print off all match cards but suggest

you carry a few with you. We will also upload our presentation and the FAI ‘Racism’ Presentation over the next week or two as well.

We have also clarified fees with FAI as asked and detail of these are on the web as well as attached.

We have also attached a copy of matchday routines which we are operating as part of a whole ‘’Respect/Lets the kids play’’ campaign which

will launch mid-September. We will give you more information as that evolves.

With results, we ask that all results are updated and sent back with picture of match card via the APP or to results@ddsl.ie at latest on Sunday evening each week.

One final Matter – we are asking all referees to ensure their info is correct on our system/App and would appreciate you populate the information in full especially availability and in particular location tab (which identifies area you live in) as this will assist in us allocating games for you. Link is https://ddsl.sportsmanager.ie/referee/login.php

It is also very important referees accept/reject fixtures with 48 hours to the league (By Tuesday 10am) once published. Any games not accepted/rejected after that period will be reallocated .

We hope we have covered everything and should you have any queries please mail referees@ddsl.ie

LET THE KIDS PLAY – ITS THEIR GAME!

Firstly, we would like to thank you for the work so far in getting your club, teams, volunteers and of course players to the stage of the league starting this weekend. We know this is a massive workload on volunteers and everyone involved-So well done so far!

We are reminding all clubs of the importance of working together with the league to ensure a smooth running of the season and is so important the processes and communication channels in place are used where possible.

We have over 22,000 players registered which is way ahead of last year with another 25,000 to register over the next 2 weeks. The number of teams now exceeds 3,400 with 1700 plus games per week.

A few things that will help.

  1. Please ensure everyone in your club is familiar with the rules and policies of the league (details on the DDSL web).
  2. Communications to the league are only by club secretaries or approved persons of the club notified to the league.
  3. Check the system for incomplete player registration and action.
  4. Check All players are registered, and team panels created for every team before they play a game.
  5. Double check entries for Sfai, Lfa, and Fai competitions are done on time.(if Applicable)
  6. Check the DDSL website for all your fixtures, updates and news regularly.

Most importantly read the attached – Match day and behaviour codes introduced this season and send it now to all your club members/volunteers etc.

This is so important to all the children in our league important having an experience they deserve.

Please also see NEW DDSL Match Card for use in all games – clubs are asked to have completed before match commences and are available to download from DDSL website.

Thanking you and wishing you and everyone in your club the best for the coming season.

 

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