The FA has recently made a couple of amendments to The FA Discipline Handbook.
Match based discipline: Steps 5/6/7, Women’s Premier League, County Representative Football and FA Pilot Leagues
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If a player is dismissed they will be suspended from all football until the team they were playing for at the time of the dismissal has completed the relevant number of qualifying fixtures, not until the Club’s first team have completed the relevant number of fixtures.
The list of qualifying fixtures has been amended to include the FA Sunday Cup (for pilot league clubs) and the ‘Club’s nominated parent County Association senior cup competition’ has been changed to ‘Teams Parent County Association Senior Cup competition (not necessarily The County Senior Cup)’
Underneath the list of qualifying fixtures the sentence ‘A player who is dismissed whilst playing in any competition other than those above will receive a time based suspension’ has been amended to ‘A player who is dismissed whilst playing in any competition other than those above will receive a time based suspension unless it is proved to the County Association that the team which competed in the competition should receive match based suspensions’
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The fine received for reaching 5, 10 and 15 cautions is £15, not £20
Please accept our apologies for the errors, these were due to changes which had been agreed not being incorporated into the FA Handbook, which was produced after the Discipline Handbook had been distributed.
For the updated document, please click the following link:
The FA Discipline Handbook