The aim of the booklet, is to make the disciplinary process easier to understand at whatever level in the game the club is playing.
From the start of the 2011/2012 season all open aged football will receive Match Based suspensions, i.e. Saturday, Sunday, & Midweek. All discipline in Youth & Small Sided football will remain time based.
The FA Council agreed that all open aged football from the start of 2011/2012 would operate under Match Based Discipline regulations which will improve the consistency of sanctions across the Country and ensure suspensions that are imposed on players are fair and in proportion to the offence they have been charged with.
The Handbook can be viewed via the related links section on the right of this page.