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Monday, August 6
Season 2007/2008
Season 2007/2008
This season will start on Saturday 15th September 2007, with our usual Opening Tournament. The league campaign will start the following week on Saturday 22nd September 2007. We are pleased to announce that we will have 17 teams this season, with Shanghai Jackals, Shanghai Latino's and Voodoo B joining the SIFL. So we will have 9 teams in the Premier Division and 8 teams in the 1st Division. The Premier Division will play each other twice, then league will be split into top 3, middle 3 and bottom 3(This has changed from the meeting as we do not have enough weeks to make the 4 and 5 team split work). Each group of 3 will play each other once (Giving a total 18 league matches). These are not play offs, but continuation of league points.
1st Division will play each other 3 times (Giving a total of 21 league matches).
2 teams will be promoted from 1st Division to Premier Division, and 2 teams will be relegated from Premier Division to 1st division.
Please be reminded that suspensions from last season are carried forward. So check the suspensions page before your first game.
League fees for this season will be RMB 14,500. The first instalment of RMB 7,500 is due before or on September 15th 2007, along with RMB 1,000 crime count deposit. The remaining RMB 7,000 will be due before or on Saturday 19th January 2008.
We will again play our matches at Tianma Country Club. However, we will need to use 1 field downtown due to the increase in teams. This is looking likely to be LuWan at this moment in time. Originally we were going to allocate 4 teams to this field on a home and away basis, but we will now try and split as eveningly as possible all teams getting games at the downtown venue.
As the SIFL is a non profit organisation, the committee will give back excess funds to the clubs, in terms of lower registration fees, or discounted End of Season Party tickets. All money collected from "Fines" will go to a nominated charity.
Could captains please have their team registered by August 31st 2007, by e-mailing Thorsten and myself a completed registration form that is attached. Please remember that any new players must have a digital photo supplied and an individual waiver form which will be supplied later. Any player that is not on the registration form that you supply to us, that was registered last season, will be automatically deleted from the team roster. If players from last year are still to be on your roster this season, just write down his name, no picture will be required.
The committee this year, will consist of Ian Lee, Daniel Berger, John Jofre, Chris Hughes, Emanuele Vender, Thorsten Kalus and Jeff Hu.
Finally, could I ask each of your teams website administrator to remove any pictures that are no longer required, and only download pictures less than 250K for normal pictures and less than 50k for registration pictures. I will delete any picture over the 250K. The website has a limited memory, and 90% is already taken up. Thx.
If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail to myself, or you can leave your question on the message board.
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