Suspensions and sanctions

A sanction is recorded against the athlete, within the organization — not against the match where it happened. That’s what lets the record follow the person even when they change teams.

The four types

Type	What it’s for
Warning	formal record with no time out
Suspension	sitting out a number of matches
Fine	financial penalty
Ban	exclusion from the competition

Recording a sanction

Enter:

• Athlete sanctioned
• Type of sanction
• Reason — write it so it still makes sense in six months, not just today
• Duration in matches — for suspensions
• Start and end of the period

The system records who applied the sanction. In amateur competition, where the decision usually gets questioned, knowing who logged it and when ends the argument fast.

A sanction that applies across tournaments

This is the feature that prevents the most cheating: a sanction can mark which tournaments it affects.

Without it, the player sent off in the Summer Cup plays normally in the same organization’s City League the following week, and everyone pretends not to notice. Mark both tournaments and the suspension applies to both.

Tip If your organization runs several competitions in parallel with the same crowd, mark the sanction across all of them by default. It’s easier to grant an exception later than to explain why a suspended player took the field.

Suspension by card accumulation

Cards entered on the match sheet accumulate through the tournament, and the system flags when a player reaches the threshold.

The alert is automatic; recording the sanction is your action. That’s deliberate: each competition’s rules define how many yellows trigger a suspension and whether the count resets between stages.

Before the match

Naming the squad is the moment to check. A suspended player named is the kind of mistake that only surfaces when the opponent complains — and by then the match has been played.

Warning A sanction recorded after the match doesn’t undo an ineligible line-up. The route in that case is your competition’s own process (walkover, points deduction), not the system.

Frequently asked

Does the sanction disappear when the tournament ends? No. It stays in the athlete’s record within the organization.

Can the athlete see their own sanction? The record belongs to the organization; the reason you write can be read by whoever has access to the athlete record.

Can it be cancelled? End the period by adjusting the end date rather than deleting it — that way the history keeps telling the truth.