N.Z.F.A. wins control of soccer league
The New Zealand Football Association has won a battle for control of the Rothmans Soccer League. At the annual general meeting of the N.Z.F.A. in Wellington over the weekend, a council remit for the league to be administered by the N.Z.F.A. was successful at the expense of a remit from tiie Canterbury Football Association, advocating the league committee, made up of delegates from the clubs, to run the competition. The Canterbury proposal was withdrawn when the council remit, which was placed earlier on the agenda paper, was . passed. In the past' the N.Z.F.A. has had . control . of the league, but there has also been a Rothmans League committee through which the clubs had their say. The N.Z.F.A.’s remit contains some changes to the league. However, one of the major proposed changes, in the area of promotion and relegation,, was taken aS a separate remit and was heavily defeated. The council wanted the three-up three-down system scrapped rind replaced 'with a one-up one-down scheme — the team ; to go up being decided after . a play-off between the three regional league winners. However,; it was clear, at the meeting that most dele-
gates wanted the incentive of automatic promotion to all three league winners retained — inspite of claims by council members that the three-up, three-down system produces negative soccer. The other hot point in the council recommendations was the plan for air travel for the teams, and this issue was also taken as a separate remit.
The council’s scheme involves each of the 12 clubs paying an entry fee ($ll,OOO this year) and then having their airfares paid by the N.Z.F.A. It is believed that many clubs are against this idea as they think it will cost them more than in the past. But the remit was convincingly passed by the annual meeting. The council’s new format for the league comes into force this season and key aspects of what was agreed upon include that the day-to-day administration of the league will be in the hands of the manager of the league, who will be the secretary of the N.Z.F.A., (Mr Steuart Goodman); that the N.Z.F.A. will also appoint gional representatives in the northern, central and southern areas to be responsible for administrating their areas; and clubs will appoint liaison officers to communicate between the clubs and the manager and regional representatives.
N.Z.F.A. wins control of soccer league
Press, 18 February 1980, Page 28
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