The NZF Disciplinary Code provides guidelines surrounding this process.
NZF’s disciplinary process follows a structured workflow:
- Lodging a disciplinary event
- Automatically generating a disciplinary case
- Applying a sanction
- Tracking the completion of the sanction.
- Invoicing for Fines
Sanctions can include match suspensions, monetary fines, or time-based suspensions, with serving scope and enforcement rules varying by competition. While many aspects of the process are automated, manual intervention is sometimes required for sanction adjustments, reporting, and enforcement oversight.
Preventing Youth Competitions from incurring fines for disciplinary cases
SKED administrators can nominate specific grades to prevent fines being raised when disciplinary cases are lodged in Youth Competitions.
To implement this restriction, navigate to SKED Grade Defaults by clicking the Settings Cog. Click the Advanced Options hyperlink for the grade. Now, check on the box "Disciplinary sanctions - No monetary fines invoked". This setting will apply to any future competitions created utilising this setting.
Lodging a disciplinary event
A Red or Yellow card can be issued by the 1st Match Official through the MyFootball Manager App. When this occurs, the Match Official will be asked to provide additional details. When the game is finalised by submitting through the MyFootball Manager app, disciplinary cases will be created in Sporty associated to the card events lodged by the Match Official.
Alternatively, a SKED competition administrator can manually assign a Card Events against a fixture and/OR manually create Disciplinary Cases for incidents that were not recorded by a Match Official in the MyFootball Manager app.
This is actioned in SKED Draws & Results tab.
Click the Edit Pencil beside the game to open the Edit Game modal.
Click the Disciplinary Cases tab.
All existing Disciplinary Cases will be displayed. Click Add New Case.
Enter the information required to create a disciplinary case and click Create
Important: Manually adding, editing, or deleting a disciplinary case will not automatically add, update, or delete any corresponding game events on the fixture timeline.
Automatically generating a disciplinary case and applying a sanction
A disciplinary case is created that details information pertaining to the fixture and recommended or automatically applied sanctions.
When a disciplinary case is submitted and the Card event is Yellow or Yellow: Temporary Dismissal, the disciplinary sanction will be generated, and the status of the disciplinary case will be set to Active.
If the Card event is Red, the status of the disciplinary case will be set to Pending.
Federation Disciplinary Administrators can monitor disciplinary cases that require interaction by filtering to Pending cases through the Online Registrations database, or by filtering to Pending disciplinary cases in SuperCRM.
Federation Disciplinary Administrators can review the information provided in the pending Disciplinary case, and make an assessment to retain the default sanctions, or edit these sanctions as required.
Click Submit to confirm the sanctions to be applied, then click the + Icon to activate the Disciplinary Sanctions. Sanctions will not be applied to the play until the status of the disciplinary case is Active.
When a disciplinary case status is set to Active, an email is generated containing the details of the case and sanctions applied to:
- the Club Database Administrator/s of the relevant database the player registration is associated with
- the Federation Database Administrator/s for the disciplinary database
- the SKED Competition Administrator
Tracking the completion of the sanction
When a Player or Team Official has been suspended from play, they will be unable to be nominated to a Game Day Team for any teams until the required number of suspended games for the team associated with the sanction has been played.
A game counts as a suspension served when the team that originally received the disciplinary sanction has a scheduled fixture.
Federations can view Match Suspensions by clicking on the Sanction icon next to the Disciplinary Cases database in Online Registrations.
By default, this view will load to show Serving Suspensions, but the filter can be modified to show all suspensions. The disciplinary case associated with the Sanction is displayed as a hyperlink.
The match suspensions view will automatically populate a Served Date when the team that originally received the disciplinary sanction has a scheduled fixture. This is processed overnight rather than immediately after the fixture is finished.
Federations can facilitate edge cases pertaining to sanctions by:
- Manually adding a date and note that will contribute towards sanctions served
- Editing or deleting dates and notes listed for served sanctions
- Deleting cases
You are also able to report on fines to invoice clubs, view serving suspensions and dates where suspensions were served, and manually edit suspensions.
Reporting on Sanctions, Suspensions and Fines
In addition to filtering to Pending disciplinary cases (in Online Registrations) to confirm sanctions to be applied, Federation Disciplinary Administrators can also run a report in SuperCRM which will list all pending cases.
Clubs and Federation Disciplinary Administrators can also run a report listing players that have suspensions still to serve.
To run these reports click the Reports icon in SuperCRM, then click the report name.
Invoicing for Fines
Federation Disciplinary Administrators run a report of Disciplinary cases that generated a fine.
To run this report, click the Reports icon in SuperCRM, then click the Financial Sanctions report and select the date or organisation parameters.
Club administrators are also able to run this in SuperCRM > Reports to report on financial sanctions that have been generated for players at their own club.