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Welcome to the VPL England Premier League. Here you'll find the rules to the league.

Rules

General Rules



To participate in the VPL competition, all captains and players comply with the written rules below. Participating in the VPL competitions Club and Player have accepted the following rules. All complaints regarding the competition will be determined by reading the rules and these can not be ignored once the Club are validated to the VPL Federation.

This Regulation must be read and applied to all the clubs and the player involved in our competitions. Examination and application of the various points are the responsibility of the Manager of the Club. 

1) What is VPL England?

This is a league and a cup competition stretching over the course of a season .

2) Conditions of acceptance of a player in the league VPL

  1. Each player may only have one club at a time; 

  2. Each player can have only one account on the VPL; 

  3. A member of the VPL Player, Manager is obliged to write his PSN / GAMERTAG / ORIGIN exact account as the username of the website,any identification not IDENTICAL to the tag of your player, will bring penalties to the team in terms of losing the game or points. 


3) Requirements Clubs

The Club to play the league must have the following requirements: 

  1.  7 Players on the field MINIMUM 

  2.  Role of an ANY is MANDATORY

  3.  Role of a GK is not compulsory

4) League System

  1. The League operates with 16 teams.

  2. 30 rounds of fixtures.

  3. Top 1 of the league table at the end of the season will be crowned champions. 

 Cup System

  1. The English Cup operates with 16 teams.

  2. Knockout Competition

  3. 5 Rounds of Fixtures

  4. Finalist winners will be crowned English Cup champions. 


5) Game Times


The match will be disputed before the expiry of it. You can check through the MY CALENDAR page

Fridays:

League Match 1 - 9:30 pm BST

League Match 2 - 10:00 pm BST


Saturdays:


League Match 1 - 9:30 pm BST

League Match 2 - 10:00 pm BST

Cup Match - 10:30pm BST

6) Pre Game Rules

  1. Managers may only use a 10 minute grace period after the official kick off time. As soon as the time hits either 9:40pm or 10:10pm, the present team will win 3-0 by default.

  2. Home Team will Invite the Away Team.

  3. Teams have 2 chances to start the game, if on the third attempt there is still an issue. The game must be played regardless.

7) In Game Rules

  1. Teams are required to field a minimum of 7 Players.

  2. Teams must use a ‘ANY’ role - This is mandatory

  3. Time wasting is forbidden, proof will be required when making a claim.

  4. The position GK is NOT mandatory

  5. If the game ends in a draw after 90 minutes, record the score and player statistics then quit the game.

8) Tiebreakers

     8.1 League format

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

  1. Goal difference in matches among tied teams;

  2. Goals scored in matches among tied teams;

  3. Goals Conceded in matches among tied teams;

  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;

  5. Wins in all league matches;

  6. Away wins in all league matches;


          In case of a tie at this point, the teams will proceed in this way: 

  1. You will play a third game (the tie-breaker), a match without the rule of the Golden goal.(complete game) 

  2. In case of tie after the tie-breaker, the match will proceed with extra time and the penalties 

9) Abandonment

Abandonment will be subject to penalties for managers and / or players; these sanctions will be determined by a meeting that will be created for the occasion; (1 to 6 months suspension from the Virtualproleague.com platform)

10) Fair play and general conduct

  1. To ensure smooth progress in competitions, we should invite the players and managers not to talk if they don’t agree, but we invite themselves to compliment or encourage each one if necessary;

  2. Staff is required to RESPECT these Rules.


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