New rules for the Player-off

The National Soccer League (NSL) has today unveiled the new rules that will apply during the Promotion Play-Offs.

This is in accordance with the amendments to the NSL Rules that were approved on 15 November 2011. The League also announced the dates for the Promotion Play-offs: the first match to be played on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 and the last match on Saturday, 23 June 2012.

The new rules will affect both the Premier Division and National First Division teams who will contest the Promotion play-offs.

According to the new rules:

-       The Promotion Play-Offs will now be contested by three teams instead of four as per previous norm.

-       The three teams consist of the team finishing 15^th in the Premier Division and the teams that finished second and third in the NFD.

-       They will contest a round-robin of fixtures to be played on a home and away format with three points allocated for a win and one point for a draw.

-       Six fixtures are required to complete the play-offs with one match and one bye occurring on each date.

-       The winner of the play-offs will therefore participate in the Premier Division (from the three teams)

A public draw will he held as soon as the three participating teams are known; the date and venue will be announced by the League in due-course. 

The NSL also announced that the Under-23 rule will not apply during the play-offs.