CROSS-COMPETITION SANCTION FORM
PART 1 PREAMBLE
It is and has been a longstanding and accepted practice whereby schoolboy/girl
footballers within the same season, play both for their school and for their community
(or League) clubs.
While the SANFL endorses this practice, it also believes footballers must accept
responsibility for their actions, and if found guilty and suspended for a breach of the
rules/codes of behaviour of the game in one competition, they should serve a similar
suspension in the other competition(s) in which they play. This premise is supported by
Rule 19.4 of the Laws of Australian Football.
Over recent years there have been a number of occasions whereby schools and clubs
have successfully “unofficially” accepted and imposed cross-competition sanctions.
The participating “partners” are representative of all the organisations in SA responsible
for the administration of football programs involving schoolboys and schoolgirls,
including:
Nine SANFL Clubs
SACFL Leagues
- Junior District Leagues
- SAAFL
- Regional Leagues
- SAWFL
School Sports Systems
All SANFL Game Development Programs
Representative Teams (State/Zone/District/Association)
Each of the above organisations will nominate a Convener and Proxy who will serve as
the contact if the identified Convener is unavailable.
Where any league or competition does not agree to apply an equivalent sanction, or an
equivalent sanction cannot be agreed upon by League/competition conveners, the
matter may be referred the SANFL Community Engagement department.