GENERAL STATUTE AMATEUR FOOTBALL LEAGUE “LAFUS” 2,019/2,020

CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER II: THE ELECTION OF DIRECTORS OR LEADERS

CHAPTER III: FUNCTIONS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LEADERS

CHAPTER IV: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEAGUE

CHAPTER V: DELEGATES AND PLAYERS

CHAPTER VI: ASSEMBLIES OR MEETINGS

CHAPTER VII: PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY COMMITTEES

CHAPTER VIII: REFORMS TO THE STATUTE AND/OR REGULATIONS

CHAPTER IX: OVERVIEW OF THE TOURNAMENT

CHAPTER X: REGULATION OF SANCTIONS OR PENALTIES

CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

ART 1: The LAFUS amateur league operates only in the sports field belonging to ATE, where the matches and
delegate meetings will be held.

ART 2: Meetings of delegates, hereinafter called assemblies, must have a quorum of half + one of the total
delegates present to approve the decisions of the board of directors.

ART 3: The league is a non-profit group and its leaders come from the delegates of the teams that make it up.

ART 4: The league aims to promote, organize and direct the practice of amateur football.
ART 5: The league and its leaders have the power to manage the economic resources under their care and the
obligation not to deviate from the object for which it was created “NON-PROFIT”

ART 6: Because soccer is a contact sport, the League does NOT guarantee the safety of each of the members
of the teams that make it up. For this reason, the LAFUS League disclaims all responsibility for any type of
injury to players and companions on or off the playing fields.

ART 7: Participating teams have free access to the regulations and statutes and are obliged to know, comply
with and respect the current regulations, as well as the resolutions that emanate from the assemblies of
delegates or board of directors.

ART 8: It will be the power of the board of directors to expel or sanction a team or player with a fine in cases of
violation of this statute or internal regulations.

ART 8 BIS: In cases of expulsion the decision must be made in the following way

a) In cases where the decision is made by the board of directors, there may be no votes against or abstentions.

b) In cases where the decision is made in an assembly with 2/3 of the total delegates authorized to vote.

ART 9: The criterion for the application of article 8 bis is the responsibility of the board of directors.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Ate informs that in the event of any disturbance generated by the participating players, the
right of admission will apply, not allowing the people involved to enter the property.

CHAPTER II: THE ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ART 10: In the general and extraordinary assembly, the following positions are elected:

a) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Composed of 3 (three) delegates

b) PRESIDENT. Chosen from among the three of the board of directors.

c) TREASURER. You may be a member of the board of directors.

 d) DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE. Composed of delegates for this purpose.

e) STATISTICS AND SCHEDULES COMMITTEE. It may be one or more delegates or delegate and sub.
Delegate of the same team

f) SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE. Composed of two delegates.

ART 11: Delegates who do not have at least one year of seniority may not hold elective positions.

ART 12: The votes will be secret and mandatory for each position to be elected in general elections.

ART 13: In ordinary assemblies the votes will be secret or by show of hands according to the criteria of the
president of LAFUS

CHAPTER III: FUNCTIONS AND OBLIGATIONS OF DIRECTORS

ART 14: The executive committee or board of directors, as well as all elected positions and commissions, will
take office 30 days after the date they are elected.

ART 15: The date of general elections will be proposed in the assembly and must be before the end of the
current championships.

ART 16: FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

a) Promote the topics to be discussed jointly with the president.

b) Ensure compliance with current regulations, complying with and enforcing this statute.

c) Address all issues, concerns or proposals from fellow delegates.

ART 17: FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT:

 a) Call and preside over meetings of delegates, being the one who arranges and orders the use of the floor.

b) Decide when a meeting is ordinary or extraordinary. In the case of an extraordinary event, you must notify it 7
days in advance.

c) Deal with all issues together with your colleagues on the board of directors in a democratic manner.

d) Be the only valid interlocutor for the purposes of making known the resolutions approved in the assembly.

e) Arbitrate the necessary dissemination and communication mechanisms between the different commissions
for a better functioning of the championship and the league as a whole.

f) Ensure jointly with his colleagues on the board of directors the proper functioning of the commissions and
positions that he designates.

g) Authorize with your signature all organizational expenses that arise during your period.

h) Convene permanent or temporary commissions that arise during your management.

i) He is responsible for keeping a book of minutes and may appoint whoever he deems appropriate to do so.

j) Arbitrate the court and referee payment mechanisms, validating their decisions jointly with their colleagues on
the board of directors.

k) Monitor the attendance of the delegates in order to apply the sanctions contemplated in this statute.

ART 18: FUNCTIONS OF THE TREASURER

a) The collection of registration fees, issuing the corresponding receipt approved by the board of directors.

b) Keep the money collected by the league safe.

 c) Authorize with your signature and that of the president all expenses incurred during your term.

d) Submit, at the request of any delegate, a statement of accounts or cash flow statement.

e) Deliver a general balance sheet at the end of the period, exhibiting all receipts and/or expense reports.

f) Bring an up-to-date accounting book to all meetings.

g) Do not authorize any expense without the consent of the president or full board of directors at their discretion.

ART 19: Starting from this statute and from now on, the destination of the existing funds in cash at the end of
the year will be established in a meeting.

ART 20: The destination of the funds will be established by election and by vote of all delegates seeking the
objective of 0 cash balance.

CHAPTER IV: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEAGUE

ART 21: Promote, regulate and supervise the progress and compliance with current regulations for each
championship.

ART 22: The league will issue a statement to all delegates for participation in the championships it organizes
each year with a minimum notice of 15 days, announcing the general details of the tournament.

ART 23: The call for the championships will establish the registration date, closing date and necessary
requirements.

ART 24: The teams will be registered within the marked period and complying with the requirements imposed
by the board of directors in the call.
ART 25: It is the league's obligation to expeditiously address queries and/or suggestions made by participating
teams only through their delegates or subdelegates.

ART 26: The league has the obligation to deal with all issues in a democratic manner, giving voice and voting
participation to all delegates.

CHAPTER V: DELEGATES AND SUB DELEGATES

ART 27: At the beginning of each championship, the participating teams must accredit two representatives,
delegate and subdelegate, these being the only ones with the right to speak and vote in ordinary and/or
extraordinary assemblies.

ART 28: “DELEGATES” obligations and rights.

a) They must be approved by the board of directors by a simple majority.

b) You must attend regularly and respond to all ordinary and/or extraordinary meetings called by the board of
directors.

c) Not having been previously disqualified.

d) They conduct themselves with respect and are managed in a democratic manner.

e) Accept the resolutions of the assemblies.

f) Delegates may request financial statements and balances from those responsible for the area at any time
during the championship.

g) They must comply with and enforce the current regulations on their players, making them aware of the
statute and the rules of the game, with them being the first party responsible and may be subject to sanctions.

i) The delegates or subdelegates may make all the suggestions they consider appropriate to the board of
directors for a better functioning of the league, accepting the resolutions in favor or against them.

j) The teams will not be able to claim ignorance of the resolutions that LAFUS adopts in the meetings.
Delegates must attend them. If they do not do so, they will not have the right to protest against a regulation that
arises from them.
k) The delegates can act ex officio when they see a transgression by a player, before during or after the match
when the referee or linesman has not perceived it by submitting a written note to LAFUS, who will take the
appropriate measures.

l) The delegates in a meeting and by a majority present may totally or partially revoke any obligation that the
regulations impose, both in terms of sanctions or any circumstance not contemplated that arises during the
course of the championship.

CHAPTER VI: ASSEMBLIES OR MEETINGS

ART 29: The assemblies or meetings of delegates will be held with the frequency, dates and times that the
board of directors establishes with the unanimity of its members.

ART 30: meetings must have an agenda or agenda in cases where the vote of the delegates is required.

ART 31: The president or whoever is designated by him will keep a book of minutes where the resolutions
adopted in the assembly will be faithfully recorded, always counting with half + one of the total members
present.

ART 32: Once the decisions adopted are transcribed in the book of minutes, the delegates will sign at the
bottom accepting them.

ART 33: If there are delegates absent from the meetings, they will be responsible for finding out about the
resolutions, and ignorance of what was resolved cannot be referred to.

ART 34: The assembled delegates are judges of their own members.

ART 35: The non-attendance of the delegate or sub-delegate to the meetings implies acceptance of what has
been approved in them.

ART 36: The non-attendance of a delegate or sub-delegate to an extraordinary assembly will NOT be
sanctioned.

CHAPTER VII: PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY COMMITTEES.

 ART 37: PERMANENT DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE

a) This commission will be made up of at least 3 TEAM REPRESENTATIVES + 2 substitutes who, based on the
sanctions regulations, will apply the penalties to which the players, coaches or members of any team are
subject.

b) The disciplinary commission is empowered to apply up to a point deduction depending on the seriousness of
the facts and in these cases it must have approval at an ordinary assembly.

c) The resolution of the sanctions must be agile except in cases in which a note of complaint is interceded by
the delegates, in which case it must be written on the back of their game sheet.

d) The decisions of the disciplinary commission will be based solely on the current sports regulations and on the
reports of the participating delegates and judges, if any.

ART 38: STATISTICS AND SCHEDULES COMMITTEE.

a) This commission will be in charge of scheduling the matches and schedules.

b) It will be formed according to the criteria of the board of directors.

c) The statistics commission will arbitrate the means of dissemination regarding the championship.

ART 39: SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE

a) Will keep control of the signings.

b) It will be formed according to the criteria of the board of directors.

c) This commission will arbitrate the control mechanisms it deems appropriate after approval in the assembly.

CHAPTER VIII: REFORMS TO THE STATUTE

 ART 40: This statute may be modified in whole or in part only in an assembly, with 2/3 of the total delegates
with the right to vote.

ART 41: What is approved in the assembly of delegates cannot be modified except in another assembly.

GENERALITIES OF THE STATUTE

ART 42: Any concern or suggestion from the delegates should be made known to the authorities in office.

ART 43: The board of directors is empowered to remove any position or commission, and must present the
reasons in the assembly and arbitrate the mechanisms that this statute provides for its replacement.

ART 44: The board of directors will decide when it deems appropriate regarding prizes and trophies, based on
the balances it will be known when money is available for this purpose.

ART 45: The board of directors may form a temporary commission for the purposes of organizing the awards
and/or end-of-year party if it deems it appropriate.

ART 45: The signature of the delegates at the bottom of this statute implies the acceptance of all its articles and
the commitment to comply with it and make it comply with their peers and constituents.

CHAPTER IX: OVERVIEW OF THE 2019 TOURNAMENT

1.- The 2019/2020 tournament will be played in 2 ZONES, ZONE A composed of 10 teams and ZONE B
composed of 9 teams, with the tournament being played in a round-robin, interzonal format and each team
adding points on the table of each ZONE to which it belongs, on a wheel, with 3 direct ascents and 3 descents.
The pass book remains open until date 3, incorporations must be submitted by written notice to the LEAGUE
with complete information about the player and a copy of the DNI until the day before the DATE to be played.
THEY CANNOT BE INCORPORATED BY HAND AND LETTERS IN THE MATCH DAYS SHEET.

THE BEGINNING OF MATCHES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT THE ENDORSEMENT OF BOTH
RESPONSIBLE DELEGATES.
2.- If the case occurs in which one team pays the total and the other does not and both delegates agree to play
the match, the debt must be paid in full on the following Saturday, otherwise the debtor team will automatically
lose two championship points.

And the statistics and schedules commission will not schedule a match until the debt is settled, considering the
teams they should face won 2 to 0.

If non-compliance persists, the continuity in the championship of the team in question will be resolved in an
extraordinary assembly.

3.- Each delegate and captain will sign their form at the end of the match, accepting what was reported by the
referee. In the event that both signatures are missing at the bottom of the form, the team will accept what was
reported therein.

If there is any complaint or doubt, they must be made in writing in the complaints book that the general
supervisor has.

The supervisory commission and the disciplinary commission will hold a meeting to resolve the issue.

4.- The team that has obtained the greatest number of points will be the champion. If two or more teams equal
first place in points, the champion will be decided in a tiebreaker match, the rest of the positions will be defined
by greater goal difference.

5.- Participating teams will pay a registration fee. This fee will be paid before a date to be resolved in a meeting.

6.- The participating teams will deliver a list in good faith before the date agreed upon by the organization with a
maximum of 28 players.

7.- The teams must respect the established schedules, they will have 15 minutes to show up to play, after that
time the opposing team has the right to ask for the points. In that case, the referee will close the scoresheets
and end the match, declaring the team present the winner by 2 to 0. If they appear within those 15 minutes, the
game will be played discounting the minutes that were late. Only the minutes given by the referee will be added.
The teams that have not shown up, in addition to losing the points, must pay for the entire field of both teams. If
the game starts late in any way, it must end at a time that allows the start of the next game to be respected.

8.- The age of the championship players cannot be younger than 1966 class except 1 from 1969 class, 1 from
1968 class and 2 from 1967 class per team. Each team can register 2 goalkeepers who cannot be minors from
class 1975 nor play in the same match. The lack of class 69 field players can be compensated with class 68 or
67 and if there is a lack of class 68 with 67, always with older players. The team that does not respect this rule
in the first place will be considered lost the match, annulling all the goals in favor and leaving the sanction to the
delegate or the team in general to the organization's consideration.
 9.- The minimum number of players on the court to start or continue the matches is 7.

10.- On long weekends the tournament IS NOT SUSPENDED.

11.- All matches will be played at the ATE Premises on Saturdays in 3 shifts:

The schedules as of 10/5/2019 will be as follows until further notice:

1st. shift - 1:30 p.m.

2nd. shift – 3:10 p.m.

3rd. shift - 4:50 p.m.

CHAPTER X: CHAMPIONSHIP PENALTIES 2018/2019

Starting in 2019, the DISCIPLINE COURT will be made up of 3 members + 2 substitutes designated by the
president of the Court, who will be in charge of administering the SANCTIONS of the EXPELLED, whether
based on reports from the REFEREES or OFFICIAL.

*- Releases only from DELEGATES for EXPULSIONS, will be received until 6:00 p.m. on the Monday following
the date in question to the email: tribunaldisciplinalafus@hotmail.com, with the respective reports plus the
release, if any, the TRIBUNAL will be issued within of 72 hours and the sanction will be IRRECURRABLE.

b) The following severity table will be used to sanction players.

OFFENSES AND THEIR SANCTIONS 2018

Art 1: Exp for insulting judges, rivals or teammates (1 to 5)

Art 1 bis: Verbal threat to the judges (min 2 or S/ report)

Art 2: exp for angry protest or excessive reaction against the judges (2 to 5)
 Art 3: exp for rough play (1a 7)

Art 4: exp for reaction to rough play by the opponent (1 to 7)

Art 5: exp for direct aggression against the judges (no report) (10 to definitive expulsion)

Art6: exp for double yellow (1 to 2)

Art 7: exp for unsportsmanlike attitude (s/report) (1 for consideration by the court)

Art 8: exp for last resort without aggression (s/report) (without penalty)

Art 9: exp for attempted aggression against “the judges” (without report + signature of observer, captains or
delegates) (10 to final exp)

Art 10: in the event of attacks between several players, both from different teams and from the same team, the
court will take into account the GRESCA reason for sanctions.

Any modification to this scale will be at the discretion of the court.

Background from 2017 will be taken into account except in specific cases.

d) The accumulation of 3 yellow cards will be punished with 1 suspension date. At the end of each tournament
the yellow cards recorded will be cleared, but not the expulsions.

e) Ate has the power to expel any attendee from the premises by applying the right of admission.

f) All sanctions expire after 2 years EXCEPT FOR FINAL EXPULSIONS FROM THE LAFUS LEAGUE.

g) the antecedents are taken into account when they are direct red in all cases and double yellow when they are
from the same championship.