Field and Referee Rescheduling Procedures

Have a postponed game, TBA game, or unscheduled game to reschedule?

1. Contact the opposing coach and agree to a date and time to play the game.
2. Contact Len Spencer, NYSA Referee Coordinator to request field and referee for mutually agreed date and time. Home telephone number is 508-393-2437. E-mail address is Lspenfam@aol.com.
3. Immediately, Len will tell you if a field is available at that time.
4. Len will arrange for a referee for the requested date and time and will provide (by either e-mail or telephone) you the coach, the referee’s name, telephone number, and e-mail address should you again postpone (within the league’s requirements).

Nashoba Valley Youth Soccer League requirements regarding postponements:

• Coaches can mutually agree to postponement up to two (2) hours before the game time, but only after the change has been approved by the Division Director (varies by age group and is listed in the front of the Nashoba Valley Youth Soccer League book). This applies to regularly scheduled games as well as rescheduled games. The Nashoba Valley Youth Soccer League Referee Director (Ned Rich) is to be notified as well.
• Some quotes from the Nashoba Valley Youth Soccer League book drive the above home: “Game time may be changed by mutual agreement of coaches, but only after the change has been approved by the Division Director.” “A team will be permitted to reschedule a match due to conflict with either an academic or religious event provided that the town/team involved completes the necessary schedule and game time changes by the start of season play.” “In the event of a late decision by school, religious, or other authorities to add or change the time of an event, the Division Director will decide how to resolve the schedule conflict.”
• If the assigned referee is not notified outside this two-hour window, the referee is to be paid anyway and NYSA suffers the financial loss.

In other words, please don’t take lightly the idea of postponing a game.

Northboro Field Shutdown on Game Days for Rain or Snow

• The decision to shutdown Northboro fields on game day will be made between the President, the Field Coordinator, and the Referee Coordinator. This decision will be made in time to allow for timely notification of the coaches and referees involved prior to the time limits imposed by the respective leagues.
• The decision will be posted on the website field hotline.
• The coaches will call their opposing coach to notify them of the game cancellation.
• The coaches will work to reschedule the game in accordance with their respective league rules as described earlier in this document.