Implementing a club licensing system in Canada

[Impact supporter]

On the bus trip to Rochester Bxl Boy and I discussed implementation of a club liscensing system for Quebec and Canada: This could help to improve Canadian Soccer and force clubs to be more professionally run. Some of the criteria clubs would have to comply with would include:

1) 3-5 U-21 players on the roster
2) financially stable
3) full club structure from youth to senior
4) fields for practice and play (2 seperate)
5) properly run stadiums that are well-lit, field in good shape, proper dressing rooms, functioning scoreboards and lights, etc

Thoughts?

[François]

On the bus trip to Rochester Bxl Boy and I discussed implementation of a club liscensing system for Quebec and Canada: This could help to improve Canadian Soccer and force clubs to be more professionally run. Some of the criteria clubs would have to comply with would include:

1) 3-5 U-21 players on the roster
2) financially stable
3) full club structure from youth to senior
4) fields for practice and play (2 seperate)
5) properly run stadiums that are well-lit, field in good shape, proper dressing rooms, functioning scoreboards and lights, etc

Thoughts?

No a lot of clubs would qualify right now. Who would take care of that? The CSA?

[Bxl Boy]

This is a good begin.
I just have to say that those criteria are good and that you have to apply them differently in function of the division where the team plays.
Some examples :

- Youth players : no restrictions for amateur teams, more (4/5 ?) for development (2nd/3rd) division teams, less restriction (2/3 ?) for first division teams
- Youth teams : from one or two for the bottom division to one in each age category for first division clubs
- Fields : idem, one is enough for the lower divisions, two maybe in the two first divisions

etc.

[Bxl Boy]

Note that this license system began in Germany and is now copied in a lot of european countries.
And from next year I think, there will also be an "uefa license" in order to play european cups.

More info about it there :

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind=128/ ... 61916.html

[Bxl Boy]

Other criteria can be :

- Number of trainers with the required diploms/license
- Number of players that have a professionnal contract
- Proving that foreign players have a legal work permission

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