Tournament Setup and Regulations

All Players MUST be Members of England Netball for season 2023-2024 and must have been 9 years old or younger on 31-Aug-2023.

The U10 Tournament is made up of 2 pools of 6 teams each. Within each pool, teams will play each other once. When all pool matches are played teams will play off for final tournament ranking: 1st in each pool will play-off for Champions/Runners-up, 2nd in each pool for 3rd/4th places etc. Each team will thus play 6 games. 

Matches will be centrally timed and start and finish when a hooter is sounded.

All matches are 12 minutes long with a one minute half-time. There will be a 2 minute break between matches to allow for teams to changeover.  The team named first on the schedule has first centre and choice of shooting direction. 

Please be courtside promptly ready for your match. Teams who are not on court and ready to play within one (1) minute of the scheduled start time will be deemed to have conceded the match and a score of 5-0 will be awarded to the team that was ready to play. Matches finish when the finishing hooter is sounded, irrespective of any delay in starting after the starting hooter. Please leave the Courts as soon as your match is finished.

During the Pool stage, teams are awarded points as follows:

1. Five (5) points for a win 
2. Three (3) points for a draw
3. Two (2) points for a loss having scored and within 3 goals of the winners’ score (e.g. 7-4, 6-5)
4. One (1) point for a loss having scored (e.g. 2-7, 1-5)
5. Zero (0) points for a loss while failing to score (e.g. 0-5)

League tables for each pool will be compiled on the basis of the points awarded to each team. Where teams are level on points the following will be used to differentiate between the teams, in the order of precedence shown:

1. Higher Goal Difference (Total Goals Scored - Total Goals Conceded) then ...
2. Higher Total Goals Scored then ...
3. Fewer Total Goals Conceded then ...
4. The result of the match between the two teams then ...
5. Alphabetical order of Team Name (case insensitive) as recorded in the Tournament Schedule.

In the event of a draw in a play-off match an additional minute will be played. If teams are still deadlocked at the end of this extra time, play will continue until the next goal has been scored (the Golden Goal Rule).  Centres alternate as usual during extra time; the first centre of extra time goes to the team who did not take the last centre of normal time.

These notes are an addendum to the standard England Netball Rules, as published online at www.englandnetball.co.uk  The final arbiter on all matters is the Head Umpire. Any decision made by the Head Umpire is final.

Please follow the one-way system when entering and leaving Courts 1-6. Please leave the courts as soon as your match has finished.

Sorry! No spectators on courts 1-6 please. No dogs are permitted anywhere on school grounds.

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