SPRING SCHEDULE
The schedule for the Spring is under Calendar on the VYSA Web page under State Cup. Please take a look at the play dates for the Spring Cup season. One thing to notice is the later start date for Cup this Spring. The first play date will be Saturday, April 18. All teams will not play on every date on the calendar, but all teams should know that their team can be scheduled on any play date.
ELIGIBILITY
Any team of a member of VYSA and participating in a recognized league and properly registered (having an official VYSA State Cup roster and US Youth Soccer player passes), is eligible to enter any one age group corresponding to the age of the oldest player on its roster. The eligible leagues include all VYSA member leagues and additionally the US Youth Soccer EDP and EDP conference leagues both team and club leagues.
There will be the one freeze date for all rosters in the Spring Cup competition for U12, U13, and U14 age groups. All players who are eligible for any level of the competition in the National Championship Series must have been rostered to your club by the appropriate freeze date for their age group. For Spring 2020Cup this freeze date is midnight on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. At the 48 hour freeze deadline, those players who are on the frozen roster are the only players eligible to compete in the State Cup portion of the National Championship Series.
If a player is registered on a VYSA State Cup team 48 hours prior to the first State Cup game, the player may not compete in another State Cup for any other team during the seasonal year (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31). A team may have no more than five transferred players on its VYSA State Cup roster. A team may compete in only one State Cup competition during a seasonal year.
AGE GROUPS FOR Spring 2020 COMPETITION
U12, January 1,2008 and younger State and Regional Competition
U13, January 1, 2007 and younger State, Regional and National Competition
U14, January 1, 2006 and younger State, Regional and National Competition
RULES OF THE COMPETITION
The Virginia State Championship Policies and the National Championship Series Policies are on the VYSA Web Site. It is the responsibility of the team to access these rules and become familiar with them. The NCS policies may be modified by the VYSA State Championship Policies.
You must go to the State Cup Rules to be aware of the rules as you apply for State Cup.
COMMUNICATION
In order to keep all teams up to date on game schedules, results and sometimes changes to fields and times, it is very important for each team to provide a primary contact and an email address. During the competition, the administrative information will be distributed by email. The game schedules and game results will be available on the VYSA Web Site.
VYSA has a Web Site for your convenience and information. All of the State Cup forms, all US Soccer Connect rostering and scoring directions, the 2019-2020 seasonal Year Cup Calendar and the VYSA State Cup Rules are available. The web address is www.vysa.com.