PURPOSE:  The purpose of the Central Illinois Youth Soccer League is to organize, promote, and administer soccer for youth up to and including those nineteen years of age throughout the central portion of the state of Illinois, and to encourage good sportsmanship and fair play of all the participants therein.

The Central Illinois Youth Soccer League will achieve its purpose by:

a.  encouraging the development of clubs, associations, organizations, and programs so that soccer is made available to youth in all levels of competition.

b. encourage the development and practice of good sportsmanship both on and off the playing field;

c.  developing the principles of fair play;

d.  building good character;

e.  promoting the growth of soccer thru the Academy, and small sided games format for ages U-8 thru U-12.

f.  to promote and encourage instructing, training, and educating players, coaches, and referees to develop and improve their capabilities.

CIYSL 2019 SPRING SCHEDULING INFORMATION 

Tentative Spring schedules published 2/25/2019

There will be an allotted 7 day period for review of the League Schedules.  During this time frame wholesale changes, major changes, or adding additional conflict dates to the schedules are NOT PERMITTED!

If you are hosting a Spring tournament, you must count this as one of your conflict dates.

If participating in the HSB Platinum U-19 Open Division, please read the special instructions that are posted on the Schedule page of this web site.

The review period is to:  1. Insure listed team conflicts were honored (no more than 3 for U-11 & above; no more than 2 for U-8 thru U-10).  2.  Try to insure teams have a home game if they did not have one for both the Spring-18 and Fall-18 combined.

If teams reschedule on their own, please be advised that you will need to check with Chuck Equez on field site availability.

Schedules should be final as of Monday, March 4th.

PLEASE BE ADVISED ! Teams that attempt to change league schedules after March 4th will result in clubs/teams being assessed fines as listed on the League Fine Schedule.  *Failure to provide proper and/or sufficient notice to all teams involved for the cancellations of a league game, the fine is $200.00

Once the season has started, and if a game or games have been cancelled, and if said teams cannot agree to a reschedule date within seven (7) days of the originally game date - you need to contact the League President, Jay Ray at jray2@ameren.com

CIYSL POLICY - GAME CANCELLATION DUE TO WEATHER

CIYSL does not cancel games due to weather - that is the responsibility of the Home Site team, Club Director of Fields, or agency of control over the fields i.e. Park District, University Property manager.  In case of player safety, and or field conditions at game time, the referee has the authority to cancel.

CIYSL does not notify of game cancellations.  It is the responsibility of the Home team to notify said teams of game cancellation.

CIYSL does not reschedule games cancelled due to weather.  This is the responsibility of the said teams involved.  The Home team does not lose their field advantage unless they agree to play elsewhere.

CIYSL SPRING 2019.

December 10th - Spring 2019 Registration opens on Got Soccer League Event and Academy Event.

February 1st - Registration Deadline on Got Soccer League Event and Academy Event.

February 4th - Preliminary Team Brackets Published

February 6th - Conference Team Seeding Call - TBA

February 11th - Final Team Brackets Published

February 25th - Preliminary Schedules Published

March 4th - Final League Schedules Published

March 29th - Team Referee Fee Assessments due to Gary Stephens

March 31st -Spring  2019  League Play Begins

April 5th - Team Referee Fees due to League Office

Affiliated Member: I.Y.S.A., U.S.Y.S.A., U.S.S.F., F.I.F.A.