About
Chennai Sepak Takraw League
Why ?
- An activity throughout the year
- To prevent player exodus after the player has finished his School/College.
- Motivation to the players because they play competitive games within short intervals with this initiative.
- The usual long gap between competitive tournaments relatively decreases the rate at which the player grows/improves his skills. This league attempts to counter the problem
- To have a better domestic structure within the state to produce quality players.
- The sole purpose is to improve the standard of the game in the state, Bring in more players to the game by having a proper structure.
- To improve the attitude of the players towards professional sport.
- Better way to track a player’s performance that will help on the Selection of players for the higher level tournaments in the country.
Introduction
- The Chennai Sepak Takraw League is a year long tournament and will be a regular fixture every year.
- A total of 8 Match Days in the year.
- A weekend every 3 months and some of the holidays in the year will be the match days for the League.
- This will satisfy the needs of both full-time and part-time players since the schedule happens to be on weekends.
Tournaments
- Chennai Sepak Takraw League – Will be held in the league format throughout the year on selected dates which are weekends and holidays for the Regu Event.
Chennai Sepak Takraw League Structure
- Started with 4 Teams in 2008 and is set to increase to 8 teams
- Each Team will have a minimum of 5 players.
- The Executive board for the league will consist of top officials who are Mentors, Well-Wishers and key Operation Board members for the League.
- The Operations Board for the League will consist of key innovators, officials and the captains from the respective teams.
The Player Pool
- All the players who wish to play in the league shall register for event at the beginning of the year..
- All the Registered players will form the Centralized Player Pool.
- Each Player shall indicate his position of play while registering to the event.
- The Positions the players choose should one of the three broadly classified positions: Tekong (Centre Back), Striker (Attacker) and Supplier (Feeder).
- Basically, the Centralized pool for the players shall have 3 sub pools, one for each position.
- Players who register in the middle of the League will be part of the academy and train with the players.
- Players can even choose to join the Academy initially before playing competitively in the League.
Ratings
- Each player in the Centralized pool of players will have a Rating associated with him.
- The Rating for the player will be decided at the Ratings meeting by the Operations Board.
- Each member of the Operations Board shall rate each and every player in the Player Pool.
- The Final Rating for the player will be the average of all the ratings by the members of the Operations Board.
- Each Player thereby will have a rating associated with him.
- The Rating of a player shall be between 1 and 100.
Draft and Cut-Off
- The Draft is a process in which the players from the player pool are moved to one of the teams.
- It is carried out by the captains of the respective teams supervised by the other members of the board.
- In the Draft one captain at a time gets to draft a player from the player pool to his Team.
- Cut-Off is the limit that will be enforced on the captains when he is drafting players into his side.
- The cumulative rating of all the players in a team shall not exceed the cut-off that is enforced on the team.
- The Ratings and the cut-off shall be announced at the same time.
Draft
- As mentioned earlier, the players are divided into Groups viz, Striker, Supplier, Tekong. There will be a special group of Tier 1 players where all the top players of the league will feature.
- There shall be separate drafts for Tier 1 Players, Strikers, Tekongs and Suppliers.
- The Order in which the Captains draft players from the Tier 1 Group will be decided on lots.
- After the Tier 1 Group Draft, the Draft for other groups will be held similarly by lots.
- The cumulative ratings of all the players (including the captain) shall not exceed the cut-off cap enforced on the teams.
- A drafted player cannot be released from the team until a Transfer Window opens.
- The Lock-in Period is the time for which the player is part of the team roster.
- The first draft has a lock-in period of one year.
- A player cannot be drafted unless he is a part of the Centralized player pool.
- Any new player must first register to CSTL before being drafted.
- Similarly a non-drafted player cannot play in the league even though he is registered to the Player pool.
Teams
- Each team shall be managed and owned by the Owner of their team.
- The Owner shall announce the Captain.
- Each Team shall choose a Name for their Team which will be reviewed by the Operations board.
- Each Team shall choose a Colour Combination for their HOME/ AWAY jerseys.
- They shall also choose a LOGO that will be reviewed by the Operations Board.
Referees
- Panel of referees for the tournament.
- Each team shall nominate 2 referees who will attend a training session.
- A referee review meeting shall be held at the end of the game weekend.
- The same panel shall act as a jury in case of any controversies/ Conflicts.
- A head shall be named among the panel of referees whose decision shall be final in the event of any disputes/conflicts.
Awards and Accolades
- CSTL Regu Champions – Trophy for the League Winners.
- CSTL Runners-Up – Trophy for the Team that comes second best.
- CSTL Player of the Year – Trophy for the best Player in the league.
- CSTL Best Managed Team – Trophy for the best Team in the league.
- CSTL Fair Play Award – Trophy for the team with best sportsman spirit.
- CSTL Player of the year shall be the owner of a ‘PLAYER OF THE YEAR JERSEY’ for that year.
Player Performance Tracking (Trial)
- The Rating associated with the player is bound to change depending on the player performances in the League matches.
- It increases if the player performs well and vice versa.
- The statistics of each player shall be recorded and documented.
- The results shall be published on the website for the league.
- The news, Player profiles, pictures and video gallery from the league shall also be posted on the website regularly.
Transfer Window
- Transfer Window is a period that opens on the day the league ends and closes a month before the next year’s league starts.
- During this period a player from one team can be ‘exchanged’ with a player from another team on mutual agreement.
- All new players will be part of the central player pool. To sign up a new player from the pool, a player has to be released from the team to the central player pool in exchange for the new player.
- An ‘available’ player can be drafted from the Player Pool. A player cannot be drafted if he is not part of the player pool.
- If more than one team tries to draft a player from the player pool, the decision lies with the player himself.
Special Window
- This is the period that will be opened on the discretion of board to allow a ‘new’ transfer on an emergency basis.
- This window is opened and closed on a case-by-case basis.
- Each move in this window shall be documented and can only be done on the majority agreement on the board’s part.
Bragadeesh said
This section needs to be updated.