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Red Card Sanctions

John Munro

What do other leagues do in respect of red card sanctions?

In the Oxfordshire Walking Football League, we play rounds of fixtures once a month and a player receiving a red card is (a) banned for the rest of the games that day and (b) also banned from the next 2 rounds of games. 

However, standard County FA rules for 'regular' football normally dictate a 2 'match' ban.  We consider a 2 'match' ban equates to our 2 rounds, as if we had to strictly comply with the word 'matches' a player could then potentially turn up at the very next round of games, sit out the first two games and then play in the remain matches that day - hardly a great deterent!

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  • This has been raised previously at the National Advisory Group. It is recognised that the FA Misconduct Process does not align itself with walking football as pointed out by others. 

    Work is being done at a national level so that appropriate methods for sanctioning offenders in walking football can be achieved. It should be recognised that walking football is not a one size fits all with leagues being of different formats and games of different durations . Hopefully the 2026/27 FA Misconduct/Discipline guidance will have a suitable solution included.

  • in reply to Michael Hill

    Thanks Mick

    Any idea when those 2026/27 FA Misconduct/Discipline Guidelines will actually be issued?

  • in reply to John Munro

    Sorry I dont, but imagine that it will be in time for the regular season beginning the 1st July. No guarantee that we will have got it in for this year as the FA are still working on the offical SCOR (Standard Code of Rules) document for walking football which will include misconduct and discipline content. It is possible that the ongoing talks between the FA and WFA may have delayed completion of the SCOR due to it potentially being out of date as soon as it was published.

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  • in reply to John Munro

    Sorry I dont, but imagine that it will be in time for the regular season beginning the 1st July. No guarantee that we will have got it in for this year as the FA are still working on the offical SCOR (Standard Code of Rules) document for walking football which will include misconduct and discipline content. It is possible that the ongoing talks between the FA and WFA may have delayed completion of the SCOR due to it potentially being out of date as soon as it was published.

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