For team managers

Each team is to provide a match report (game card) to the referee for each game. The referee will keep both; one to mail to the match secretary and one for his/her own record. Each team manager should keep a duplicate report as a record of the match. Verify match result with the referee.

Match reports (game cards) are available for printing from our website, each team print two (2) for each match; one for the referee and one for the team records.

The team manager of the home team is to provide a business sized (#10) envelope, with first class postage, addressed to the match secretary of the division in which the team plays. A list of match secretaries can be found on the Contacts page of this web-site.

The referees have been asked to not start any match until the match reports and envelope have been provided.

All credentials for players and coaches must be brought to each game: laminated player and coach passes and 1601 medical release forms with original signature of the each player’s parent or legal guardian.

Please ensure that all trash generated by your team is picked up after the match and deposited in the proper receptacles. If no receptacle, take your trash with you when leaving the field. Have trash bags available for this purpose.

Whether your team wins, draws or looses, please be sure to report all match results to the match secretary promptly following the match by emailing the results to the match secretary responsible for your division.

E-mail format:
Subject line of e-mail: GSSL Match Result Gender Age Division
Message section of e-mail:
Match number.
Date of the match.
Gender - age group - division.
Home team name and the number of goals scored.
Away team name and number of goals scored

For team coaches

Your team is participating in a league that operates throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and as such is a reflection of your club and community. Please ensure that players and supporters accompanying the team behave in manner that provides a positive image of your club and community.

Please read and familiarize yourself with the GSSL Behavior Policy. It can be obtained from our website on the rules/FAQ page. Please require that your players and team supporters abide by this policy at all times during the time the team is present at the match sites.

Please be sure that all match results are reported to the match secretary promptly following each match.

Please be aware of the GSSL rule regarding guest players. Guest players are permitted in the U17 – U19 age groups only. The maximum number of guest players in any match is 3. Complete rule is available in our rules which can be downloaded or printed from the GSSL website.


For referees

Please report deficiencies or unsafe field and goal frame conditions to the GSSL.

Please be sure to add the names (not just the numbers) of players who are issued yellow cards.

Please be sure that all players and coaches have laminated passes issued for the teams that will be participating in the match that you will be officiating. Check the team name on each pass. There is no exception to this requirement.

GSSL allows a maximum of three (3) guest players in the U17 – U19 age groups only. Guest players must be registered in the same club (CYSA league) as the team for (s)he will be playing as a guest.

Prior to each match, please be sure to get a match report from each team. One report is for your records the other is to be mailed to the match secretary.

Prior to each match be sure to get an envelope from the home team manager which is stamped and addressed to the match secretary. You are at liberty to refuse to start the match until it has been provided.

Please ensure that the match report is completed following the match and that all hand-written comments and names are legible.

Please include telephone numbers of the referee and assistant referees on the match report.

Please mail match report promptly following the match. Please do not hold on to the match report of game in which a red card was issued, record the red card incident (player or coach name) on the match report and send to the match secretary.

When necessary, please write reports of players and coaches who were sent off. Mail those reports, along with player passes and copies of the match reports, to the disciplinary chairperson within 24 hours of the match. Name and address of the disciplinary chairperson is on the Contacts page of the GSSL web-site.

For clubs hosting games –

Please ensure the following:
If a multi-field complex, please be sure that fields are identified.
All fields are of adequate size for the age group of teams.
All grass mowed to an acceptable length.
All fields inspected to ensure the safety of the players and officials.
All fields properly and clearly marked.
All goal frames are securely anchored.
All corner flags in place and of regulation height.
Adequate toilet facilities are available.
Adequate trash receptacles are available.

Best of luck to all teams, have a most enjoyable and safe season.

The GSSL application period is now closed. The age group divisions have been formed and were presented and approved by the GSSL board at the July 14 meeting.

Scheduling is now underway and should be complete and in the hands of the club schedulers for field and time assignments by the end of July.

Clubs participating in the GSSL must be prepared to have adequate fields, sized appropriately for the age group, and referees for their home games.

Age groups are divided into divisions based on teams’ past performances.

League play will commence on September 11 and conclude November 14. All teams must be prepared to play each Saturday and Sunday between those dates. There could be occasional evening games in some age groups. Postponements do occur and make-up dates are determined by the league. See the GSSL rules for further clarification and notification policies.

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