11. START LISTS AND SUBSTITUTES ON THE BENCH

11. START LISTS AND SUBSTITUTES ON THE BENCH

A player that is inscribed on a team’s roster as per section 10.1 and plays in an official match cannot be registered for a club in the same edition of The Competition in which they are participating. 11.1 Upon arrival at the venue and no later than 90 minutes prior to any match, a representative from each team must submit their start list of 18 players, selected from within the previously submitted 23-Player Roster, to the Venue Coordinator or other authorized Concacaf official via Comet, and should also have the aforementioned identification documentation for verification if needed. Any player without the relevant documentation may be deemed ineligible to play.

11.2 If a starting player sustains a serious injury or is so ill that he cannot longer be expected to play, he may be replaced prior to pregame protocol without penalty by an eligible substitute from the 18-player start list, but must be listed as injured on the Start List and will be ineligible to play the match.

11.3 A maximum of seven (7) substitute players and nine (9) club officials are permitted on the substitutes’ bench. The club officials must have their names and functions indicated on the official form provided by Concacaf prior to the match. Note: suspended players or officials are not permitted to sit on the substitutes’ bench.

11.3.1 Team officials and substitutes shall remain within the technical area during the match’s entirety, except for warm-ups, and in special circumstances (e.g. a physiotherapist/doctor entering the field of play, with referee’s permission, to assess an injured player). Team officials and substitutes who fail to abide by this provision are subject to disciplinary actions determined by the Disciplinary Committee. 11.3.2 Those officials who are confirmed on the team’s start list 90 minutes prior to kick-off are the only officials allowed in the technical area during the entire match. 11.3.3 Only those approved and confirmed officials that are in the technical area when kick-off of the first half occurs are the allowed officials for the remainder of the match. If one of the aforementioned approved officials is not in the technical area when the match begins, he/she will not be allowed to reenter the technical area at any point of the match.

11.4 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting football around the globe, the IFAB approved a temporary amendment to Law 3 of the Laws of the Game, pertaining to the maximum number of permitted substitutions for all competitions scheduled to be completed in 2022.