Soccer

SOCCER

ANNOUNCEMENTS

September 10, 2024

KSHSAA RULES REVIEW – Click HERE to access the KSHSAA Handbook.

KSHSAA RULE 22 – Once a student begins practice with a school team, the student may not play on an outside/club/rec team in the same sport/activity during the school season. (Applies to Middle & High School)

KSHSAA RULE 26-1-4 – A student shall not participate in group training sessions or tryouts held by outside agencies other than colleges in a sport while he or she is a member of a school athletic team in that identical sport. NEW THIS YEAR: Schools may allow athletes to attend college tryouts/ID camps during the school season.

KSHSAA RULE 30-1-6a – Schools may not hold interschool scrimmages (practices) in athletics. Interschool is defined as middle/junior school with another middle/junior school and senior high school with another senior high school. This does not eliminate scrimmages between alumni and the school team. During a scrimmage there can be no score kept and no clock. Use of officials is permitted. Should one or more game elements (score or time) be involved, it would no longer be a scrimmage but must count toward the number of contests allowed during the season. Intrasquad scrimmages, games among teammates, even with score, time and/or officials used would not be considered a game.

UNIFORMS
The home team wears dark colored jerseys and socks (clear contrast to white), and the visiting team wears solid white jerseys (no colored piping, stripes, etc.) and solid white socks. Read carefully Rule 4-1 in the NFHS Soccer
Rules Book. You may also reference the NFHS UNIFORM REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT.

SOCKS 4-1-4d: Clarifies there is not a limitation on the color of tape or sock worn at or below the ankle.
Rationale: Athletes have the flexibility to modify socks within the existing regulations. Frequently, they remove the foot of one sock to layer another underneath, enhancing comfort or grip inside their shoes and fastening the top sock around the ankle. Any tape or similar material used above the ankle must match the sock's color, while at or below the ankle, any color is allowed. Referees are no longer required to oversee socks below the ankle.

SHINGUARDS 4-5:
Shoe

Provide adequate and reasonable protection.
Be professionally manufactured, age and size appropriate.
Not altered to decrease protection.
Be worn under the socks with the bottom edge no higher than 2 inches above the ankle.
Meet the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) standards at the time of manufacture. The NOCSAE mark and height range shall be permanently marked on the front of the shin guard.

PICTURE = ILLEGAL SHINGUARD
Illegal equipment = Caution (Yellow Card): First caution is issued to the head coach, and subsequent cautions for illegal equipment are issued directly to the player.

KSHSAA SOCCER REGULATIONS

All varsity contests, tournament or regular season, must be of regulation length in compliance with Rule 1 of the KSHSAA Handbook and Rule 7-1-1 of the NFHS Soccer Rules Book. Games will consist of two 40-minute halves.
Intermission will be 10 minutes.
By KSHSAA adoption (Rule 7-1-2), non-varsity contest periods may be shortened with prior mutual agreement.
The KSHSAA has adopted a goal differential whereby at the end of the first half, if one team has gained an 8-goal difference or if it achieves such a differential during the second half, the game shall be terminated.

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Current Boys Champions		Current Girls Champions
Class 6A Class 5A Class 4-1A	Olathe East Maize South Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege	6A 5A 4-1A	Overland Park-Blue Valley West Overland Park-St. Thomas Aquinas Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege
[Previous State Champions]		[Previous State Champions]

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