U8 Division
Alliance, Minerva, Southeast and Waterloo
- A player who plays for another travel/club/competitive team within any club is ineligible to participate on a CCL team
- Players can only play for 1 team/1 division during the season
- Teams play 6v6 including the goalkeeper
- Size 3 soccer ball
- Play is (4) 12-minute quarters with a 5-minute halftime
- Teams will change ends only at halftime
- Substitutions may be made on a throw-in, goal kick, any re-start, kick off or any break in play (referee should acknowledge and allow the substitution)
- Score is kept by the referee during games
- Coaches not permitted on field during play but can instruct players from the sidelines
- Referees will call all hard body contact and kicking even if unintentional
- If a team is short players, both coaches will decide whether to play with fewer players or give the team with missing players additional players from the opposing team
- No off sides in this division
- No headers are permitted, headers will result in an indirect free kick to the other team
- No punting allowed in this division
- Regular season: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 for a loss
- If the score is at a five-goal difference, the trailing team will add a player if available. If not available, the winning team will remove a player. This advantage will stop once the score is under 5 goal difference.
- Running up the score is not allowed. Only 5 goal differentials will be used in computing standing. Anything over 5 goals is seen as excessive. If a team wins by a goal differential of 10 or more goals, that tem will only receive 2 points in the standings. If the score differential reaches 15 then the violating team will only receive 1 point in standings
- Tournaments are played in this division
- Subs report to midline and wait for the ref to call on to the field-no subbing on the fly
- Regular season games can end in a tie. No tiebreaker during the regular season
- Spectators are to be respectful of the players and coaches during practices and games.
- Spectators are not permitted to move up and down the touch line on their side to "coach" the game.
