Some competitions (cup games) may require a match report form with names of substitutes who participated in the game. This would render those players ineligible to play for another team in the same competitionWhat is the purpose of checking the names of the subs? i.e if a team is going to field an ineligible player, and then that player uses the name of a player which is actually registered nobody is going to know that has happened?
Hi Big Cat. Yes, I understand that aspect. I was more asking about how would we as referees know if a team has played all or any of the 11 players on someone else's name. Clearly there is nothing we could do about that, but RobOda has put it nicely as he says :-Some competitions (cup games) may require a match report form with names of substitutes who participated in the game. This would render those players ineligible to play for another team in the same competition
But what happens if Tom or Harry is then a Dick?a player says he is Tom, when actually he is Harry
It has existed in the laws of the game longer than grassroots football have given team sheets to the referee. We do it because the laws of the game say so, but in reality, they need updating.What is the purpose of checking the names of the subs? i.e if a team is going to field an ineligible player, and then that player uses the name of a player which is actually registered nobody is going to know that has happened?
That can happen with the starting 11 too. Do the referee's in your league check every starting 11 player names against the team sheet? We don't have to do this for subs or players. In fact we never check names. We only check jersey numbers. If a jersey number is not in the team sheet against a name, we report it and the club gets fined.There was an incident in a supply league game in my area earlier this season, where a sub came on, the AR didn't check properly and it turns out he wasn't on the team sheet, which only got discovered after he got cautioned...