Pre-kickoff squad eligibility verification checklist

Before kickoff, the competition administrator checks the submitted team sheet against a printed suspension list and a registration spreadsheet in the back office, ticking each name by hand. Ambiguous cases, such as a loan restriction, a pending suspension or a document that does not quite match, get resolved with a phone call to the league office, and the answer ends up written in the margin or sent as a text to a duty manager. There is no structured record of which checks were run against which name, only a signed team sheet. When eligibility is queried after the match, whoever reviews it works from a signature and a memory of a phone call, not from a record of what was actually verified.

A mobile checklist for the back office in the hour before kickoff. The competition administrator loads the submitted team sheet and works through the eligibility items to check against each named player: registration status, suspension or accumulation status, loan or dual-registration restriction, and document match. Each item is ticked, flagged or marked as escalated to the league office, with the resolution and who gave it recorded against the player's name. A single view shows which squad members are still unresolved and locks a clean sign-off page once every name is cleared. It does not rule on eligibility itself and does not interpret registration regulations. It structures the check a person makes and keeps a record of what was asked, who answered, and when.

The hour before kickoff currently goes on the administrator ticking each name against a printed suspension list and a registration spreadsheet by eye. The agent runs that match itself the moment the team sheet and lists are loaded — checking every name against registration and suspension status and pre-marking the ones that clear cleanly — so the administrator's hour is spent only on the loan restriction, the pending suspension, the document that does not quite match, rather than re-checking names that were never in question. It does not resolve the ambiguous cases; those still go to the league office by phone, with the agent's pre-check as the reason the call list is short instead of covering the whole squad.

Competition administrators who run the check, duty managers who field escalation calls, and matchday operations managers who sponsor it as part of kickoff readiness.

A mobile web checklist that loads a team sheet and a manually uploaded registration and suspension list before each fixture. Each named player gets a set of check items with tick, flag or escalate states, a free-text resolution note, and a locked sign-off page once every name clears. Version one has no live connection to the competition management platform or the registration database: both lists are exported and uploaded as CSV before kickoff, and any correction after sign-off is logged as an amendment rather than fed back automatically.