East America Cup Soccer Tournament 2003

Schedule

*W means the group winner.

Grouping

We recorded the the group assignment ceremony. The video is available here.

Results

Grouping rules

• If there are 12 teams in total, from both New York area and Bosten area, they will be divided into 4 groups.



• There will be four seed teams: Two from the best teams of previous tournaments, one from Bosten area , and the remaining one being the host (i.e., Yale).



• For those teams (at most 4 ?) which need drive a long distance (more than 4 hours?) to Yale on Saturday, there will be a special tier for them (it is possible that they are seed teams). Thus the games related to them can be hold comparatively later.



• The rest 4 teams will become the remaining tier.

Qualification rules

• Each soccer team should be from one or several universities. All the players should be members of that soccer team.



• Each team can register at most 30 players. However, almost all of the Chinese soccer teams from universities do have some members who are not students or scholars of universities but working or studying around. Conside that situation, we allow each team to register at most 10 players who are not students or scholars from its associated unversity(s). However each team only can have at most 5 non-student&scholar players in the court. To determine whether a team member is a student/scholar or not, we would check his information by seaching the official directory of the university.



• About Alumni players: Consider almost all universities, especially those in or near the big cities, have some alumni working around. These alumni players were and are their team members for years. We will treat these alumni players as scholar players and they should bring their old school ID cards (if they still keep them) or the copy of the diploma instead. When the team leader submit the player list, please label them and report their original department in the school and graduate year.



• Each team should submit the list of players to the organizers before August 24. Please list the students or scholars first, followed by players who are not students or scholars. For each player, the required information includes name, department, university/company and position. All lists will be published on this website on August 25. Note: All players must be Chinese and any player can play for only one team.



• For ID checking: ACSSY has promised to provide one game supervisor for each game. The supervisor will check IDs basing on the registered list about those 11 players who will be in court before the game and before the second half. When substition happens during the game, the team will notice the supervisor before they call the referee to do substituion. The supervisor has the right to check the ID of sub if he want. The opponent team has the right to ask the supervisor to check ID of sub if they have any doubt. Each student or scholar player should bring his school ID or copy of diploma. The other players should bring their driving licence or company ID. Our captains have to reminder your players to bring their IDs.



• Any cheating team will be kick outed from the game and the whole tournament. The name of the cheating team will be published in the Web and the $100 deposit from that team will not be returned.

Game rules

• Most rules are based on FIFA rules. The group order will be determined by the order as game points, the game result between tieing teams themselves, and goal difference.

  The difference from FIFA rules are:




• No limit for the number of substitutions. Any player normally subed out can be subed in again.



• The player who has got red card can't play the rest game and the rest games of this tournament.



• Any fighting action, attacking referee, attacking game supervisor will make a team out. Any foul language or aggressive action will make that player out. The game supervisor has the right to make the decision.



• Each attending team will be required to submit a $100 deposit. One yellow card will be charged $20 and one red card will be charged $40.