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Leagues AGM – 4th July 2023
The league held it’s AGM on Tuesday 4th July via Zoom and the link to the meeting is here: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AhbTbkTXuJ48go5jd286vVPQs-yn6w?e=bRawTg This is password protected, the password is available from your club secretary. The results from the votes that took place at the AGM ishere: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qu2wLEl1G36Z1XwFWhORU3UhabI4pGCP1R2liOR1u0E/edit?usp=sharing Key points from the meeting:
New Club Applications for the 23/24 Season
Now that the season has finished the league is due to hold its AGM on Tuesday 4th July at 19:00, via zoom. Any new club that would like to be put forward to the member clubs for inclusion in the league need to submit the New Club Application form (see below) by no later than…
England Para Talent Day
There will be an England Talent Day hosted at West Riding County FA on 17th June for players aged 7-16. The day will be aimed at youth players with: Approximately 70% of players within the para talent pathway play within mainstream football, so you may have a future England player within your ranks even if…
R.I.P Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer, former Chairman and co-founder of the now Craven, Aire & Wharfe Junior Football league passed away on the 26th December 2022. Herbert aged 91 years of Silsden. Much loved husband of Pam for 70 years, loving dad to Paul and Janet and a dearly loved grandad and G-G. A funeral service will take…
Silent Weekend – 5th & 6th November
In conjunction with the FA the Craven Aire Wharfe Junior football league have signed up for their Silent Weekend campaign. The aim is to reduce pressure on youth players at grassroots level and give them a better opportunity and environment to find their own voice, improve their on-pitch communications skills, develop their own game, and…
Sin Bin
The league would like to bring to everyone’s attention the Sin Bin rule that was introduced to Grassroots football back in 2019. We believe that as soon as coaches and referees start to implement this then the issues surrounding behavioural issues on the pitch would drop. When this was initially trialled by 31 leagues, 25…
Craven Aire Wharfe Junior Football League mourns Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
The league is deeply saddened to have heard about the death of Her Majesty the Queen. Out of respect, the FA has confirmed that all Grassroots football is to be postponed for this weekend, 11th September 2022.All Mini Soccer sections (U7 – U11) will have their fixtures cancelled.All Junior Section fixtures (U12 – U18) will…
Stage 2 Fixtures
The leagues second stage fixtures are due to commence on the 9th January 2022 and will be using an alternative to the FA’s FullTime to manage them, the link to this site is as follows:https://caw.leaguerepublic.com/index.html All managers will receive an email inviting you to register and login to League Republic, this will be needed in…
Craven Aire Wharfe Junior Football League presents it’s second Girls Football tournament………….
The craven, Aire & Wharfe girls gala is going ahead despite it been the school holidays and will be held at Zara sports on 8th August. These are the age groups and time slots as from September 2021 (including the gala):- (U7/8) 9.00 – 10.30(U9/10) 10.30 – 12.00(U11) 12.30 – 14.00(U12) 14.00 – 16.00 The…
GUIDANCE TO RETURNING TO FOOTBALL
The teams that are continuing have been fed in to FullTime and currently the Junior Section have been updated and scheduled and the Mini-Soccer section will be completed over the next few days. Ahead of the return, the league have the following guidelines that we’d appreciate you adhering to: These fixtures are Friendlies and as…
Teams continuing with Friendlies
Please follow the download link below to get the list of teams that have confirmed they’d like to continue with Friendlies; updated 16:15 – 23/03/2021. These will commence on Sunday 11th April and the league will be distributing amended guidelines for teams returning to playing football.
20-21 Season Conclusion
Following the meeting with West Riding FA on Thursday evening and subsequent league management committee meeting last night (Sunday 7th March) the following is how the Craven Aire Wharfe Junior League is to conclude this Season: Due to the responses from the recent vote to extend the Season and the number of fixtures that still…
Season Conclusion
Well, we thought that Season 19/20 concluded in a very strange manner! Apologies to those who have been anxiously awaiting the leagues decision to finishing the Season. This Season we managed to get a good number of games in due to the good run of weather September and October. November was locked down and due…
League Achieves Charter Standard
The League has done it again and have achieved the FA’s Charter Standard. To find out more as to what this means follow the following link:https://www.thefa.com/get-involved/player/the-fa-charter-standard/benefits-and-incentives The precise criteria to become an FA Charter Standard League is identified as part of your County FA meeting or forum. Broadly leagues are required to meet the following…
Latest Covid-19 Update
Due to the latest Government broadcast and the whole Country going in to lock down ALL junior Grassroot football has been suspended. To read the latest statement from the FA head over to this link https://www.thefa.com/news/2021/jan/04/covid-19-update-20200401
U11’s Introduction to Statistic Reporting
Here’s the link to last nights Zoom meeting for the U11 managers and the introduction to Stat Entry on FullTime. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/Oz6dDxcH23me3SvUYvl3nIr-T5LZywkSGY5yl7LBFoMmukwqQ9W4x3mPADucvAHb.OWui5LxqFuAc8EUX?startTime=1609356542000
Covid-19 Tier 4 Update – 21st December
The FA have updated their guidance inline with the new Tier 4 restrictions, in short Junior Football CAN continue, however, only teams within a Tier 4 restriction may play each other. Teams cannot move between tier 4 and the other tiers, movement between tier 1 to tier 3 restricted areas can still be done under…
COVID-19 Update: 19th September
• Currently, all Grassroots football can continue to play their fixtures.There is widespread news advising otherwise, and this is generating ‘Alarmism’ amongst individuals within the Grassroots community.As long as the guidelines are followed there should be no reason to not fulfil a fixture; although if teams are unable to provide enough players due to parental…
New season starts!
Following the General Meeting on Monday evening, it was agreed for the playing Season to commence on the 20th September. If there are teams that feel they are unable to commence on this date then the league will allow up to two postponements at the start of the season; this is in addition to the…
West Riding County Football Association Update
Following the latest Government announcement with regards to Grassroots football and Covid 19, the league have received the following notice from County: Good Morning All, I hope you are remaining well. Thought I would get the email out there quick today before our phones at West Riding become very busy plus I am sure you…
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