PREMIER LEAGUE

GENERAL
1.29. “Full Time” means, when applied to a role specified under these Rules, one where the working
hours are at least 35 hours per week (subject to such additional hours as the Club may require).
A Full Time role may be fulfilled by more than one Official (e.g. on a job-share basis) provided
that the minimum hours stated above are undertaken.
Guidance
A Club will not be penalised should a member of its Academy Staff fulfilling one of the roles required by these Rules
to be Full Time if working slightly less than 35 hours per week provided that the required outputs of that role are being
satisfactorily delivered. See further, by way of comparison, Rule 44 and the guidance thereunder.
1.30. “Full Time Education” means the education provided for registered pupils at primary or
secondary schools or full-time equivalent students at colleges of further education.
1.31. “Full Time Training Model” means a programme of coaching and education whereby the
Academy Player’s academic education shall be scheduled to enable four hours of coaching
per day (which may be split into two sessions of two hours each) to take place within the
Core Coaching Time.
1.32. “Futsal” means the variant of association football that is played in accordance with the Futsal
Laws of the Game as published from time to time by FIFA (with any such variation thereto as
the League may from time to time determine), the current such Laws being available at:
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/generic/51/44/50/
spielregelnfutsal_2010_11_e.pdf
1.33. “Games Programme” means the Foundation Phase Games Programme, the Youth Development
Phase Games Programme, or the Professional Development Phase Games Programme.
1.34. “Games Programme Schedule” means the period during which matches in the Games
Programmes shall take place. The League will by no later than 31 January in each year publish
the Games Programme Schedule for the following Season.
Guidance
It is envisaged that the Games Programme Schedule will incorporate two periods of “downtime” for matches in the Foundation
Phase and Youth Development Phase Games Programmes. The first such period will generally encompass the last two weeks
of July and the first two weeks of August, and the second will encompass two weeks over Christmas. The exact dates for each
Season’s period of downtime will be set out in the Games Programme Schedule when it is published by the League in the
preceding Season. A provisional date of 31 January in each Season has been set for the publication of the Games Programme
Schedule (although it may be subject to amendment thereafter but before the start of the following Season to accommodate,
for example, newly-classified or re-classified Academies).
1.35. “Head of Academy Coaching” means the Official referred to in Rule 60.
1.36. “Head of Education” means the Official referred to in Rule 97.
1.38. “Hybrid Training Model” means a programme of coaching and education whereby the
Academy Player’s coaching shall primarily take place outside of the Core Coaching Time but
with at least four (4) hours per week of the specified hours of coaching taking place within the
Core Coaching Time.
1.39. “ISO” means the independent standards organisation to be appointed from time to time by
the PGB for the purposes of undertaking the ISO Audits.
1.40. “ISO Audit” has the meaning set out in Rule 6.
1.41. “Lifestyle Management Skills” means the personal and social skills which it is considered
desirable for Academy Players to develop.
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