Brentwood Community Football Alliance League News
January 2026
Season 25/26 Non Competitive Cups
( Thu 4th Dec 2025 @ 12:47:52 ) 494 Views
To All Club SecretariesA reminder that the BCFA U9 to U11 Non Competitive Cup competitions will start from January 2026. These will be based on the new Winter division that teams will be moved into in early January.In preparation for this please ensure that if a player is registered to multiple teams in one of the U9-U11 non competitive age group that you submit player cancellatio ....
Season 25/26 County FA Weekly Team Suspensions
( Wed 26th Nov 2025 @ 09:15:40 ) 235 Views
Since the beginning of the season County FA have been suspending Teams for 2 reasons: Sageguarding Non Compliance and Sine Die. Up to the end of November 2025 the League has been reminding Clubs of these suspensions. However, from Monday 1st Deecmber if a Team is still showing as suspended from the previous week and that team played over the weekend they will be charged under the below Lea ....
Season 25/26 League Policy Update
( Mon 29th Sep 2025 @ 14:36:39 ) 690 Views
Following several queries the policy document has been updated with some further clarification.The latest version can be accessed via the League documents sectionhttps://www.bcfa.leaguesystem.co.uk/documentcollective/5ede75e824e7bb4f7b7284de8abd6853.pdf ....
Season 25/26 Fixture Teamsheet Completion
( Thu 18th Sep 2025 @ 08:32:42 ) 1,195 Views
With the season now underway a reminder to all managaers at U9 and above that not only do you need to complete your weekly timesheet before the Thursday deadline but you need to correctly state the number of players who started and who were on the bench.The League have clearly outlined in the Season 25/26 Policy document (available to view from the League website under documents) that Full Time ....
U8 Managers Meeting
( Tue 16th Sep 2025 @ 15:39:28 ) 275 Views
The U8 Managers meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th September at The Welcome Club. The meeting will run through your season ahead and give you the opporunity to ask questions to your fixtures secretary or other members of the league committee that will be in attendance. Any managers who couldn't attend the other non-competitive age group meetings are welcome to atte ....
Season 25/26 U7 Final Introduction Meeting
( Sat 13th Sep 2025 @ 10:13:21 ) 578 Views
For the attention of ALL Managers running a Team at U7 that did not attend the initial U7 Introduction Meeting held at Billerciay.For Season 25/26 all teams wishing to participate in the U7 Festivals need to attend a mandatory introduction meeting. For this season the final meeting will be held on Wednesday 8 October at Broomfield. To book yourself on the 8 October course please use the ....
U9 Managers Meeting
( Wed 3rd Sep 2025 @ 17:56:26 ) 353 Views
The U9 Managers meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th September at The Welcome Club. The meeting will run through your season ahead and give you the opporunity to ask questions to your fixtures secretary or other members of the league committee that will be in attendance.Arrival from 7:30pm with a 8pm start to the meeting.The Welcome Club, 1 Victoria Road, Stanford Le Hop ....
U10 and U11 Managers Meeting
( Wed 3rd Sep 2025 @ 17:55:31 ) 441 Views
The U10 and U11 Managers meeting will be held on Wednesday 10th September at The Welcome Club. The meeting will run through your season ahead and give you the opporunity to ask questions to your fixtures secretary or other members of the league committee that will be in attendance.Arrival from 7:30pm with a 8pm start to the meeting.The Welcome Club, 1 Victoria Road, Stanford ....
Season 25/26 Player Registrations Update 2
( Tue 2nd Sep 2025 @ 11:36:06 ) 652 Views
Final update on player registrations prior to season starting.U13 Teams - currently there are 4 U13 teams with zero players registered and 4 who have registered less than 11 players. The deadline for a player to be eligible to play on Sunday 7 September.is to have submitted a player registration by 10pm Friday 5th September.U8 Teams - currently there are ....
Season 25/26 Referee appointment process
( Tue 2nd Sep 2025 @ 07:06:00 ) 873 Views
The process of appointing referees for fixtures is completed every week for the coming Sunday.Appointments will be completed by the Wednesday evening, so if you have not received a Full-time notification by then, then unfortunately a league appointed official has not been found for your fixture. Please feel free to seek a referee of your own or a coach, parent or other person can b ....
Season 25/26 Manager Qualifications & Photo ID
( Thu 28th Aug 2025 @ 10:26:45 ) 848 Views
With the season starting for the U13s on 7 September and U8 age group and upwards from 13 September it is important that all managers & coachs who will be attending games have the correct up to date qualifications and a valid photo ID on their squad list. According to the FA League portal the BCFA League has over 2000 registered officials, although some of these are purely in an administrat ....
Season 25/26 Player Registrations
( Tue 26th Aug 2025 @ 10:38:49 ) 884 Views
With the new season starting for most teams in less than 2 weeks the League has only received registrations for 7800 players out of an expected 13500.With this in mind your attention is drawn to League Rule 18 B (iii) - a team needs to have the minimum number of players registered 7 days before the season starts. If a team fails to do this it will be charged and that will automatically r ....
Season 25/26 U7 Introduction Meeting
( Fri 22nd Aug 2025 @ 10:46:27 ) 891 Views
For the attention of ALL Managers running a Team at U7For Season 25/26 all teams wishing to participate in the U7 Festivals need to attend a mandatory introduction meeting. For this season 2 meetings will be held. These will be on Monday 8 September at Billericay Town and Wednesday 8 October at Broomfield (to be confirmed).To book yourself on the 8 September course please use the ....
Season 25/26 U8 to U11 Age Group Meetings
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:26:15 ) 878 Views
These are all currently being set-up and your Age Group Fixture secretary will advise you of the date, time and location once the venue has been booked.This is an opportunity to network with other managers and ask questions for the season ....
Season 25/26 U7 Introduction Meeting
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:23:48 ) 526 Views
This will be held on Monday 8th September at Billericay Town Football Club.ALL U7 Teams need to be represented by the team official who will be taking the team on matchdays. A registration form for the meeting will be issued in the next week.Attendance at the meeting will mean being issued with a User ID to allow the team to request hosting/attending a festival via the new Festiva ....
Season 25/26 General Update
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:13:04 ) 905 Views
League Rules for Season 25/26 have now been signed off by County and have been uploaded to the website (document can be found at https://bcfayl.leaguesystem.co.uk/documents.php)All teams need to have the minimum number of players registered 7 days before their first fixture ....
Season 25/26 Managers Guide
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:03:39 ) 692 Views
A new document live from September 2025 has been uploaded. This needs to be read by ALL Managers.The document can be found under https://www.bcfa.leaguesystem.co.uk/documentcollective/79c3260d82d27bc5189646268d5e1b88.pdf ....
Season 25/26 League Policy
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:02:23 ) 482 Views
A new document live from September 2025 has been uploaded. This needs to be read by ALL Managers.The document can be found underhttps://www.bcfa.leaguesystem.co.uk/documentcollective/7750139eff4f9d9012becd783bdf1f14.pdf ....
Season 25/26 Calendar Of Events
( Tue 12th Aug 2025 @ 13:00:56 ) 1,111 Views
A new version has been uploaded - please read ....
Season 24/25 AGM - League Awards
( Thu 26th Jun 2025 @ 06:21:21 ) 1,271 Views
Congratulations to all the Clubs and Teams that won an award fro Season 24/25. There were 2 Award categories and the Clubs and teams are listed below. In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the BCFA the number of teams receiving the awards was increased. The Sportsmanship and Club Admin awards are based on a number of factors:1. Sportsmanship markings take into account the opposition ....
Season 25/26 Player Photo IDs
( Fri 13th Jun 2025 @ 12:35:48 ) 593 Views
If you run a player registration report from your FA Club portal this will give you the photo uploaded date for each player so you can see which of your existing players will require a new photo ID. ....
Season 25/26 Player Registrations
( Tue 3rd Jun 2025 @ 22:56:55 ) 626 Views
Please note that Player Registration opens on Monday 9 June 2025 and will close at midnight on 14 February 2026Once the season starts the League will apply standard weekly deadlines. To play on a Saturday the player registration must have been submitted before 10pm on the Thursday and to play on a Sunday the player registration must have been submitted before 10pm on the Friday. ....
Season 25/26 Membership Application deadline
( Tue 3rd Jun 2025 @ 22:43:09 ) 365 Views
All Clubs are reminded that they need to have submitted their League Membership Application and paid the fee by 23 June ....
Season 25/26 Membership Fees
( Tue 3rd Jun 2025 @ 22:41:47 ) 444 Views
To celebrate the BCFA 10 year Anniversary the age group membership fees have been reduced for Season 25/26.The fees are now5v5 - £20; 7v7 - £25; 9v9 - £30 and 11v11 - £35 ....
Key FA System Dates for Summer 2025
( Thu 1st May 2025 @ 14:12:11 ) 543 Views
See attached document which includes links to book on webinars ....
Season 25/26 FutureFit Early Adoption
( Wed 16th Apr 2025 @ 10:36:59 ) 644 Views
Please note that following a committee meeting it was decided that the BCFA League will not be an early adoptor for the new 3v3 format at U7 In September 2025. The League will continue to run the U7s for Season 25/26 on the 5v5 format. If any Club/team decides that they want to adopt the 3v3 format from September for the U7 age grpoup then unfortunately they will not be able to join the BCFA as ....
Season 24/25 Request for a League Official to attend a fixture
( Mon 31st Mar 2025 @ 22:17:01 ) 444 Views
To All Club SecretariesFrom today you can request a League Official to attend a fixture from your BCFA Club Admin Portal. A guidance document will be posted in the next 2 days ....
