If a classic league team wants to move clubs for next year, I know that it requires 75% of the roster to agree to do that. Does anyone know the date by which that has to occur in order for the boys wanting to move to retain the bye? Does anyone have any experience with this? Just curious how it actually all worked out in the end for any team that might have gone through it.

From the CL rules:

a. Limited Conditional Transfer of Invitation (“75% Exception”).
As set forth above, in the typical setting, invitations to submit an application to participate in the Classic League for the upcoming soccer year (based on a team’s prior year’s competitive CL RULES – PAGE 12 OF 30 November 2010 performance) will be extended to the club for which that team played (and not the team itself). Provided, however, if 75% of the players on the roster3 of the team upon whose competitive performance the invitation to apply for a Bye Position was extended return to such team the following year, and such team will then be playing for a new club (including a one team club), then the invitation previously extended to the former club will follow such team to its new club (that is, the invitation will be conditionally “transferred” to the new club). To count as a ‘returning player’, a player must be officially rostered to such team (through such team’s home association) prior to the deadline for submission of such team’s Bye team application.

Moreover, such player, his parents, and his team must all expect such player to be available on the sideline to play at the start of the Fall Season and generally for the remainder of the Fall Season. Classic League reserves the right to require sworn affidavits and such other proof from players, parents, and/or team officials, or to require attendance verification at each game. By the announced Bye application deadline, each such team must submit its official roster for the coming season (bearing the original signature of such team’s home association registrar) and that roster must reflect the names of all of the ‘returning players’ upon whom the asserted “transfer” of the invitation is based (that is, the roster must reflect the players who comprise the 75%). Failure to submit such roster by the deadline may result in a determination that the invitation (Bye Position) will remain with the former club (plus appropriate sanctions, if any).


75% Rule

11.5 players or more, round up.

If below 11.5 players round down

example: 15 players
x 75%
11.25 = 11 player


Looks like the "BYE" fees were due last year on July 14. Not sure about the "application" deadline if they are the same.

soccer00 wrote:If a classic league team wants to move clubs for next year, I know that it requires 75% of the roster to agree to do that. Does anyone know the date by which that has to occur in order for the boys wanting to move to retain the bye? Does anyone have any experience with this? Just curious how it actually all worked out in the end for any team that might have gone through it.

Going somewhere?

Freeatlast wrote:

soccer00 wrote:If a classic league team wants to move clubs for next year, I know that it requires 75% of the roster to agree to do that. Does anyone know the date by which that has to occur in order for the boys wanting to move to retain the bye? Does anyone have any experience with this? Just curious how it actually all worked out in the end for any team that might have gone through it.

Going somewhere?

Probably. Just trying to decide whether to try to do it as a team or watch individual boys all go separate ways....