Coaches’ Responsibilities

As a coach in our organization, your role is crucial for nurturing both the athletic and personal growth of our players. Here’s a detailed look at your responsibilities:

• Skill and Tactical Development: Lead training sessions that enhance soccer skills and deepen tactical understanding for all players.
• Attendance: Encourage players to regularly attend Strength, Agility, and Quickness (SAQ) sessions. Your role will be to monitor their participation and support their commitment, rather than directly implementing fitness programs. This focus on SAQ participation is vital for their physical development and performance on the field.
• Safety and Well-being: Always prioritize the safety and well-being of players, following best practices for injury prevention and promptly addressing any health concerns.
• Positive Team Environment: Cultivate a supportive and positive atmosphere that promotes sportsmanship, teamwork, and a genuine love for the game.
• Communication: Keep open lines of communication with players and their families, providing updates on team expectations, individual progress, and relevant information.
• Match Preparation: Prepare the team for matches with a clear strategic plan, ensuring players understand their roles and the overall game strategy.
• Equitable Play and Positioning: Manage game time equitably, based on attendance and engagement, placing players in positions where they are most likely to succeed and contribute positively to the team. This approach ensures each player feels valued and has the opportunity to develop.
• Continuous Development: Pursue ongoing personal development to enhance your coaching abilities and stay abreast of the latest coaching trends and techniques.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with the Technical Director and fellow coaching staff to execute training plans effectively and integrate constructive feedback into your coaching practices.

By embracing these responsibilities, you play a significant role in the holistic development of our players, ensuring they not only advance in soccer but also learn important life skills such as teamwork, discipline, and perseverance.

Team Managers’ Responsibilities

Team Managers are crucial for the logistical and organizational success of our teams, with responsibilities that include:

• Communication: Keeping the team informed about schedules, changes, and important notices.
• Logistics and Administration: Managing equipment, venue arrangements, travel plans, and ensuring players and team officials (coaches, managers) are properly added to the league official rosters.
• Event and Tournament Organization: Planning team-building activities, tournament participation, and the year-end event.
• Game Day and Volunteer Management: Preparing and submitting game sheets, ensuring players and coaches are correctly rostered for matches, and creating volunteer tasks in the Teamlinkt App such as referee liaison, net and flag setup, snacks, etc. 
• Deposits and Equipment Maintenance: Collecting Jersey and Volunteer Deposits and maintaining the team kit and first aid supplies.
• Incident Reporting: Submitting detailed incident reports to the board as required.

Vulnerable Sector Check

Leduc Soccer prioritizes the safety of its members. To volunteer or coach, you must submit a Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC) every 3 years. If you already have a VSC, it can be used as long as it is no older than 90 days at the time of submission; otherwise, a new VSC is required. VSCs are valid for three years with Leduc Soccer.  You must submit a new VSC, if you have been charged with, convicted of, or subject to any legal restrictions (e.g., peace bonds, probation, or restraining orders) since you last VSC submission to LSA.    We will verify our records and may request a new VSC if none is on file or if it's outdate

​To obtain a VSC you will need to first modify, print and present this VSC Letter to the police, necessary to get the police to waive the VSC fees, and provide two government-issued IDs like a driver's license, passport, or birth certificate to the police.   Please modify the VSC letter by choosing "Vulnerable Sector Check" from the initial dropdown menu,  updating the "Applicant Legal Name" to your own name, and specifying your role (such as Coach, Team Manager, etc.) as illustrated below.

To obtain a Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC), residents must visit specific law enforcement offices depending on their location. Here's what you need to know:

• If you live in City or County of Leduc, visit your nearest RCMP detachment during business hours.  In Leduc the RCMP is located here
• If you live in the City of Edmonton, you will need to go to specific Edmonton Police detachments to get a VSC as not all detachments offer this service. More details can be found here:  https://edmontonpolice.ca/CommunityPolicing/OperationalServices/PoliceInformationCheck/VulnerableSectorChecks.
• For the Edmonton Police, appointments are recommended, and wait times can be lengthy. More details can be found here: https://edmontonpolice.ca/CommunityPolicing/OperationalServices/PoliceInformationCheck.
  
  
  PLEASE EMAIL VSC LETTER TO vsc@leducsoccer.ca WHEN COMPLETED.

Tournaments

For each indoor and outdoor season,  LSA has allotted funds for our Community - Boarded and Club teams to participate in 1 tournament; you can find the list of available tournaments here:

https://albertasoccer.com/events/list/

After selecting and registering your team for a tournament, and once the payment is completed, please submit your expense claim following  our established process.

Incident Reports

Team Officials, including Coaches and Managers, must file an Incident Report for injuries that necessitate an Emergency Medical Response or Emergency Room treatment. Additionally, any organization member, such as parents or players, is also eligible to submit an Incident Report. In addition, LSA requires members to complete reports for incidents involving physical assault, verbal abuse, sexual misconduct/abuse, social media harassment, general misconduct, property damage, or theft/loss of LSA or personal property in order to to take appropriate action.

Incident Report (Google Forms)

After completing the Incident Report form, any supporting documentation, pcithotos, videos or screenshots can be submitted to incident@leducsoccer.ca. 

Field ConditionS

The following links are useful for monitoring field conditions and determining if a field can be used:

City of Leduc 

• Open: Amenity is in good playing condition and open.
• User Discretion:  Amenity deemed slippery, poses potentially unsafe conditions and chance of damage.  Use is not recommended and is at the users discretion and risk.
• Closed:   City of Leduc has deemed the conditions unplayable due to severe weather and/or increased probability of risk and damages. Amenity is closed for use, any scheduled bookings have been cancelled. User takes on full responsibility for any damages or risk involved, if diamond/field is played on.

All school fields are also managed by the City of Leduc except fields at the Leduc Junior High School and East Elementary.

 City of Edmonton

City of Beaumont

OutDoor Team Official Resources

Battle River Soccer Association (BRSA) Team Official Resources

Edmonton Minor Soccer Association (EMSA)

EMSA U8 - U11 Community (Semi-Competitive)

EMSA U13 through U19 Community  (Semi-Competitive) 

Black Gold FC (Competitive)