All players competing in the NEAL need to be registered through their State Association, and please find below the Match Day Requirements for the 2025-2026 season.
Any player meeting the rules below needs to be on the Gotsport roster using the Club Pass function. No players will be allowed to play who are written in on the roster. These updated rules have been put in place to help with player development (and if a team is short on players for unforeseeable circumstances), not to help teams win games. If your team has a full primary roster of 13-14 players for a game, you should not be moving players down (or up) to try to win.
On a match day, a club needs to bring their Match Card (standard & photo) for check-in purposes. Please find important links below on how to complete this process.
Home & Away Team Rosters
Any player meeting the rules below needs to be on the Gotsport roster using the Club Pass function. No players will be allowed to play who are written in on the roster. These updated rules have been put in place to help with player development (and if a team is short on players for unforeseeable circumstances), not to help teams win games. If your team has a full primary roster of 13-14 players for a game, you should not be moving players down (or up) to try to win.
- A goalkeeper is allowed to play in more than one game.
- A team can use one U11 player (2015) to play up with U12 age group (2014) and play two games in a day, but cannot exceed 90 minutes.
- A team can use up to two players to play in two games in a day in the same age group. A player cannot exceed 90 minutes between the two games.
On a match day, a club needs to bring their Match Card (standard & photo) for check-in purposes. Please find important links below on how to complete this process.
Home & Away Team Rosters
- A Match Card for that specific game (Please input uniform #'s into Gotsport)
1 Standard Copy (coaches and referee sign this copy at the end of the game)
2 Photo Copies (1 for the referee to check-in players / 1 for the opponent) - How to set a Match Day Roster & Print Match Card
- How to add club pass players
- Ensure that the referee completes the match card with the following information: goals (time and uniform #), final score, and any red or yellow cards listed next to the player's names (including the reason/code why the card was given.)
- Both coaches need to sign the match card, and the league recommends that the away team takes a picture of the Match Card
- The home team is responsible for uploading the match card, inputting scores, yellow/red cards into Gotsport.
- Match # and Pin # found on Match Card
- QR Code to go directly to that page in Gotsport, also located on the Match Card
- This must be completed in Gotsport within 72 hours of the final whistle.
