About the Dundee Saturday Morning Football League

Mission Statement

This league exists purely for teams to come and enjoy their football in a non confrontational but competitive league.

Central to this is a need for all players to behave in a gentlemanly manner and show respect to their opponents, match officials and their team mates.

A core principle of the league is for it to keep expenses to a minimum and to make a charitable donation each year to local charities, consisting of all fines money and any additional money raised on behalf of the league from fundraising efforts.

At all times teams, players and officials must strive to uphold the good name of the Dundee Saturday Morning Football League.

Individuals and teams which do not act in the spirit of the league will be removed from participating.

League Organisation

The bureaucracy associated with running a league is to be kept to a minimum, with an Annual meeting only in June or August and, if required, a meeting in January to do the Cup draws.

All teams have an equal say in the running of the league and the League Secretary acts solely as an administrator ensuring pitches and match officials are booked for games, league finances are kept in order and the fixture list is completed. The league will keep a record of results, bookings and suspensions which will be distributed to all teams on a weekly basis during the season via e-mail.

At the AGM each year the League Executive will offer to step down from the running of the league in order to give someone else the opportunity to help run the league. A vote will be taken on who is to receive the honour of being a league representative.

Most decisions about the league, bar those regarding league committees and expenses, are taken on the basis of a majority view of all teams.

The League Executive or any subsequent committee are not entitled to any honorarium or committee expense for the privilege of being involved in the league.

This rule is an absolute cornerstone of the league’s founding principles of being a non profit making and charitable league. For this rule to be revoked, at any point in the future, there must be 100% agreement from all teams in the league in an anonymous ballot for it to change. One dissenting vote is enough to put a halt to any request for honorariums for committee members or individual expenses that are not directly related to receipted expenses incurred by the league itself. If there is a ballot and that maintains the status quo, a further ballot cannot be held for at least one year.

League funding

The cost to play each game is set out by the league secretary at the AGM.

This fee is fixed for the season and covers the pitch and referees fees. A surplus collected will buy modest individual trophies for winners of the respective divisions, Referees Cup, Divisional Cups & Memorial Cup. It will also pay for linesmen at the Cup Finals.

Teams are to pay for their own changing facilities on council parks.

All teams must pay their league fees prior to games starting.

All money raised in fines is to be donated to a charity or charities nominated by members of the league and will be presented at the Referees Cup Final at the end of each season by the Team Captains of the finalists.