Public Liability (PL)– No. Clubs can purchase PL insurance via the Whole Game System when they affiliate.

Please note - All clubs who affiliated in the 2019-20 season and purchased PL insurance via Sportsguard will benefit from continued cover under the same policy until such time as organised football starts.

Personal Accident Insurance (PA) – Yes. PA insurance is not available to purchase via the Whole Game System. PA insurance can be purchased via the West Riding FA Online Shop operated via the West Riding FA website. Clubs can purchase PA insurance at any time and can ‘top up’ their insurances as and when they need to (i.e as and when more teams start participating).

If the insurance provider can offer pro-rata discounts on PA insurance products, the ‘online shop’ will be updated and the real time price applicable at the time of purchase will be shown.

Given the uncertainty surrounding when football may return, and the desire to support Leagues to operate as effectively as possible, the West Riding FA will only run County Cup Competitions in season 2020-21, provided the following condition is met;

Notification is received from the government/FA by 01/08/2020 that football can resume by 05/09/2020.

Notification must be received by 1^st August 2020 AND that notification must confirm that organised football can resume from 5^th September 2020.

The cup competitions shall NOT run if,

1. Notification is received after 01/08/2020
2. Football is not permitted to resume until after the 5^th September 2020

If notification is received by 1^st August 2020, and the competitions will run, all clubs will receive an email invitation to enter on August 2^nd 2020.

Clubs are advised the West Riding FA will cease to accept cash or cheque payments from 1^st January 2021. The decision has been taken to ensure speed of service and to protect our staff from any unnecessary risk associated with processing physical forms of payments.

Clubs can make payments via the following methods;

Bacs payments (where applicable – see above) can be made to the following account;

West Riding County Football Association Ltd

Bank: Yorkshire Bank

Sort Code: 05-00-20

Account Number:  11444909

All clubs who affiliated in the 2019-20 season and purchased Public Liability (PL) insurance via Sportsguard will benefit from continued cover under the same policy until such time as organised football starts and the 2020-21 product is available to purchase.

Personal Accident (PA) Insurance is required to support any participant who is physically engaged in football activity. All clubs who affiliated in 2019-20 and who purchased PA insurance for their teams via Sportsguard will benefit from continued PA cover under the same policy until 30/06/2020. 

Prior to the government’s announcement on 28/05/20 no football was permitted to take place and as such, there was no requirement for clubs to be affiliated. However, we appreciate that some clubs have declared that they can safely operate non-contact training sessions of no more than 6 participants (including the coach) whilst maintaining social distancing of 2 metres. 

Affiliation + purchased PL Insurance (for the club) + purchased PA insurance (for all participating teams) = PLAYERS ARE INSURED

An affiliation application can only be approved when the club can evidence that they have purchased the appropriate level of Public Liability (PL) for the club and Personal Accident (PA) Insurance for each of their teams.

If the season start date extends beyond December 2020, it is likely that pro-rata discounts will be applied to the PA premiums for adult and youth. However, if the season starts prior to December 2020, and leagues and competitions can operate a full season between the start date and 31^st May 2021, the full premium value will apply. Clearly these discounts will only be applicable to those teams who have engaged in no football activity between 1^st July and the season start date.