Intramural Indoor Soccer
Registration Information:
- Registration Period: Monday 2/15 - Friday 3/12
- Tentative Start Date: Week of 3/21
- Play Days: Sundays - Thursdays
- Captains Meeting: via email and at first game
Rules of the Field of Play
- Two 18 minute halves w/a 3 minute halftime interval
- There will be no tied games. In the event of a tie, a full 5 minutes overtime period will be played (no sudden death); if one team is ahead at the end of the first 5 minutes, the game ends with the team ahead as the winner. If the teams are still tied (even if scoring occurs) after the 5 minute overtime period, a 5 person shootout will be done. If the score remains tied after the first shootout, a second shootout will occur. Shootout will continue until a winner is determined.
- Player substitutions occur on the fly during the play of the game
- All penalties will result in direct free kicks
- Six paces of space must be given by the defending wall and the settled ball to be kicked during a free kick
- Penalties in the penalty area will result in a penalty kick
- Penalty kicks will take place 12 paces from the goal
- Anytime the ball hits the ceiling, basketball hoops, or gets stuck in one of the fixtures around the gym, the ball will be ruled out of bounds and possession will be given to the other team
- Whenever the ball is kicked above the green mats on the side walls, it will be ruled out of bounds and possession given to the other team
- The ball may be kicked as high as possible on the walls behind the goals. The ball may be played off the back walls.
- No contact zone. The first player to enter the no contact zone (sideline in front of bleachers) will have 3 seconds or 3 touches (whichever comes first) to pass the ball out. Failure to do so will result in loss of possession.
- The goalkeeper may not throw, punt, and/or “drop-kick” the ball past mid court. He may only kick the ball past mid court when the ball is rolling to him/her.
- No slide-tackling, slide-tackles are penalties and result in direct kicks
- 2 Yellow cards in a match result in a red card and an automatic one game ban
- Any foul resulting in a straight red card may, at the discretion of the league, result in a multiple game ban
- Yellow cards can accumulate in pool play; any player amassing 2 yellow cards over the course of pool play (not including multiple yellow cards in one pool that turn into a red card) will receive an automatic 1 game ban after their second yellow card (for example, someone with one yellow card in game 1 and one in game 2, or game 1 and 3, etc.)
- After pool play, anyone with a yellow card who has not at some point received a 2nd, will have it rescinded (meaning, everyone’s disciplinary slate is wiped clean after the group stage; however, anyone who receives a 2nd yellow card or a red card in their last pool game will serve their suspension in the tournament)
- Cards and penalties in tournament games will apply in the same manner as the group stage (for example, someone with one yellow card in the quarterfinal and one in the semifinal, will be banned from the final match).
Rules of Team Composition
- No ID, No Play... A valid Binghamton University ID is needed to participate
- There are to be five field players and one goalkeeper on the field per team at any time
- In order to start a game, a team must have at least 4 players
- If any team falls to 3 players or less due to injury or ejection, the game will be abandoned and a win shall be awarded to the team with at least 4 players remaining in the game
- In the coed divisions, a full, legal team shall consist of no less than 2 women and no more than 3 men on the floor.
- In order to start a coed game a team must have at least 4 players; in this case, at least 2 must be women (if a team has 3 men and 1 woman, they may not play unless another woman arrives to play for their team; though if they have 3 women and 1 man, they may begin play)
- A team can play with more than the minimum amount of women in a game, however, they may not exceed the amount of 3 men (for example, a coed team may have 4 women and 2 men, 5 women and 1 man, or all women, however they cannot at any time have more than 3 men)
- Players may be added to team rosters until the first scheduled game. After the first scheduled game, all rosters are frozen.
- Any male participant is permitted to play for both a men’s team and either a coed comp. or rec. team. No male participant, however, is allowed to participate on both a coed comp. and rec. team.
- Any player deemed illegally participating in a game due to a) suspension, b) having been added to the roster late, or c) being illegally registered to multiple teams, will be punished at the discretion of the league; this could result in possible banishment from the league for that player and ejection of the team from league play.
- Binghamton University Varsity Soccer Players (men and women) are not allowed to participate. Violation of this policy will result in automatic team ejection from the league.
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There shall be a maximum of two Binghamton University Club Players allowed to participate for a given team (male/male, female/female, male/female). Violation of this policy will result in automatic team ejection from the league
Forfeit Policy
- Any team that does not appear for a scheduled game will be automatically ejected from league play.
- Any team that does not have the appropriate amount of players to start a game will also be ejected from league play.
