Hasbrouck Heights Soccer Association
Parents Code of Conduct
Hasbrouck Heights Soccer Association recognizes the parent role as integral to the player’s support team.
Our parents must observe the guidelines established by the club.
Parents should:
- Encourage and support the child’s experience and play on the field
- Encourage good sportsmanship and self-discipline through example
- Support the coach, manager, and the team
- Respect officials and accept their decisions
- Comply with the rules, policies, and procedures of the team and the club
Parents should only discuss player concerns with the coach and at a mutually agreed-upon time.
Never on game day or in the middle of a practice session. Discuss any unresolved issues with the Club Director.
Parents will never:
- Engage a game official directly
- Engage controversially with coaches, managers, players, parents, or any official of any team
- Coach from the sidelines
- Engage the other team supporters in a hostile way
- Disrespect opposing team players
- Interfere at any time with the duties and responsibilities of the coach or manager
I understand :
- Ejected parents from a game, the Hasbrouck Heights Soccer Association Board of Directors will issue a warning to the parent, and the Board of Directors has the power to suspend the player from other games.
- If a parent is ejected a second time during that season, the Hasbrouck Heights Soccer Association Board of Directors will issue a warning to the parent. However, the Board will consider that this is the second offense and will, in all likelihood, issue a much harsher ruling depending on the specific circumstances of the ejection.
- The player and their parent(s) will be responsible for any league fines issued against the parent/player.
- Will not grant players a friendly release from a team to join another once the player’s team has registered for the season. In most cases, this will be from the early registration date established by Northern Counties Soccer Association each season.
- If a team forfeits a game due to a lack of players in attendance, the players who did not attend the game will be responsible for the $250 League Fine. The fine will be divided equally among players who did not participate. The fine must be paid before the next game.