Upper House Spring 2011
Spring Season Details
For a list of spring season teams, click here.
Spring Schedule
For the Spring 2011 UH Schedule, click here. Note: some teams will have to play double-headers to balance out uneven divisions and schedule requests.
Spring Season Broad Outline
The spring season includes U10, U11, U12, U13/14 divisions for both boys and girls. The first games are on Saturday March 19th, with a season of 8 games lasting until late May.
The Upper House spring season is designed to look and feel much the same as the fall season. There will be three changes from the fall season: (1) Upper House will be run as a paper league for spring 2011; (2) Some games may fall on Sundays; (3) There will be no standings, as is typical of spring seasons in Division 3.
The spring season runs as a paper league, using CYSA player passes from the fall (with any transfered players using modified paper league passes as explained below).
Dates and Deadlines
| Date | Item |
January 18 |
Online Registration Begins |
February 9 |
SF teams are strongly encouraged to complete registration by 2/9/2011 to receive practice fields. |
February 24 |
Registration and 1st Payment Deadline |
March 1 |
Schedule request deadline. |
March 3 |
Mandatory Upper House coaches meeting Required of all coaches from all teams. |
March 19 |
First season game |
May 21/22 |
Last season game |
June 4/5 |
Potential Jamboree |
Spring Season Details
Registration
Registration begins on January 18th. It is a streamlined process and composed of three steps:
(1) Register your team online at [Click here to register on-line]
(2) Send a check to SF Vikings for $200/team as an initial payment to be received no later than February 24th. The check must be clearly marked with the team name, have UH Spring 2011 noted in the memo, be made out to SF Vikings League, and posted to:
Vikings League
Upper House Spring Registration
2521 Judah St.
SF CA 94122
(3) Attend the required Coaches Meeting for Upper House on March 3rd and submit the final team payment at this time. Your check should be made out to "SF Vikings League" for the amount:
- U10 & U11 teams: $300/team
- U12 and above teams: $360/team
** Please note that Step #1 is the most immediate step but also the easiest. This takes only three minutes, with nine data fields to fill in. You are not registering every player, simply the team itself as an entity. **
San Francisco teams: practice fields are not allocated until registration is complete (steps #1 and #2), so we encourage you to register as quickly as possible.
Guest Teams
Guest teams must pay $200/team and attend the required March 3rd meeting.
If the guest team is a non-SF team then they do not need to make the second payment ($200/team is total cost) but they must provide fields and referees for home games.
If a guest team is an SF team then they must make the second payment of $300/team for U10 & U11 teams or $360/team for U12 and older teams and this payment must be received by March 3rd.
It is possible for a guest team's club to handle payments (e.g. Mission club), and for that club to handle payments with Upper House, however it is the team's responsibility to communicate with their club and make sure that their club is doing this.
Paper League Roster Changes
All teams will be issued a new roster with a different color ("paper league" roster) for use in the Spring Upper House. These will be distributed to teams at the March 3rd meeting.
If your team plans no roster changes from the fall season then you may ignore the rest of this section.
The Upper House operates as a paper league during the spring and this allows an expedited transfer process, easier, faster, and cheaper than in the fall season. Most importantly it means that teams are not subject to the 3 transfer maximum that applies in the fall season. Teams may transfer or add any number of new players to their paper team roster.
If your team's home league is Mission, PAL, South San Francisco or another other non-Viking league then you must do all roster changes with your home league and you should check with them for the procedure.
If your team's home league is Vikings (which is true of the majority of Upper House teams) then you will need to process any roster changes through the Vikings League office, with the following procedure:
- If you are transferring a player to your roster from another Vikings team then you need to bring the following to the Vikings Office for a process that can be completed within 1-2 business days:
(1) player's original 1601 form
(2) player's CYSA player pass
(3) $10/player (up to a max of $30/team if you have multiple player transfers all brought in a single visit)
Note: if you are transfering a player from another league (e.g. Mission, PAL) then you must also submit an email from the releasing coach giving permission for the player to play on your spring Upper House team and stating that, either (1) the releasing team is not playing spring or (2) that the transfer will not take the releasing team below the roster minimum for its team.
- If you are adding a player not registered to any CYSA team then the process is identical to a new add in the fall season. You must allow 8 business days after paperwork submission for the process to complete and you must bring the following to the Vikings Office:
(1) Two signed 1601 forms [LINK]
(2) Copy of Birth Certificate or Passport
(3) Passport size/quality photo
(4) $30/player
- There is no need to officially drop a player from your roster unless roster space is needed (i.e. you've reach your team roster maximum). If so, you should bring the following to the office and a new roster will be printed while you wait:
(1) dropped player's original 1601 form
(2) dropped player's CYSA player pass
- If you are adding a coach you must bring the following to the office:
(1) Copy of coaching license
(2) Passport size/quality photo
Note: if the coach has not registered for a CYSA team for the current soccer year then they must also submit two signed 1628 forms [LINK]
For more information on the paper league, click here: [Paper League]
Teams Interested in Spring & Summer Tournaments
Please note that teams intending to play in spring or summer CYSA tournaments must attend such tournaments with their non-paper-league rosters and player cards. If your team has made no transfers then this will not affect you in any way as neither your player cards nor your golden rod roster will have changed. (Note: If your team will transfer some new players onto the team for the spring season in Upper House but does not plan to use the transferred players in a tournament then this will not affect you in any way either.)
If you have transferred players to your team during the spring, those transferred players (and not anyone else on the team) will have special paper-league player cards which are distinguished by a newly colored background on their player card, with data to indicate the fact that they have officially changed teams. Such a card will not be accepted at CYSA tournament. Also, such players will not show up on your official golden rod roster.
Therefore, if your team intends to play in a spring or summer CYSA tournament and intends to use any new transferred players, then you must transfer those players via the regular CYSA procedure at the Vikings office, subject to the 3 transfer maximum, 8 day processing time, and regular fees.
Costs
Each team needs to send in a payment for $200/team with the first registration step.
There will need to be an additional team payment, solely to cover the cost of referees, $300/team for U10 & U11 teams and $360/team for U12 and above teams. This second payment will be due on March 3rd at the required Coaches Meeting.