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Affiliation Costs, are they appropriate?

Michael Hill

Just gone through the process of affilaiting our teams to the FA for the 2023/24 season. I must admit to feeling a little aggrieved about the team Insurance payments. The current set up means that we seem to be paying multiple Insurance premiums for the same players? Lots of walking footballers play across different age categories and in essence a club are paying twice or three times for one player to play in 3 teams. For example a female player plays in our ladies only team across two age groups plus one of our mixed gender teams as well. Surely the FA and the Insurance providers can find a suitable way for individual players to be covered across teams.Surely a nominal fee of around £3 per player linked to their FAN number would be a way forward?

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    This could be down to the way leagues are structured by the FA? A 'team' is defined as that which partakes in a league, so if your club has multiple teams entered in the same league then they need separate insurance for each team. However, I believe, that if your Walking Football League was to run as separate Leagues ie over 50/60 League (rather than divisions within the same 'league') then actually Team A (limited by selection of relevant age restricted players eg 50+/60+) could enter League A (50+), League B (60+), League C (70+) and so on. This is in effect the same thing that happens with entering a nearby County League. A 'new' team is created as you are supposed to affiliate to your local County FA and can only pay affiliation fees once. So maybe the solution is to allow clubs to affiliate one team (male/female/mixed) but if you play outside of your local County FA then additional charges could be introduced?!?

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    This could be down to the way leagues are structured by the FA? A 'team' is defined as that which partakes in a league, so if your club has multiple teams entered in the same league then they need separate insurance for each team. However, I believe, that if your Walking Football League was to run as separate Leagues ie over 50/60 League (rather than divisions within the same 'league') then actually Team A (limited by selection of relevant age restricted players eg 50+/60+) could enter League A (50+), League B (60+), League C (70+) and so on. This is in effect the same thing that happens with entering a nearby County League. A 'new' team is created as you are supposed to affiliate to your local County FA and can only pay affiliation fees once. So maybe the solution is to allow clubs to affiliate one team (male/female/mixed) but if you play outside of your local County FA then additional charges could be introduced?!?

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