The 2024 North Hempstead Cup Tournament will be a ONE DAY tournament.
 

Girls & Boys U8-U12 will play on Sunday, October 13th.

ALL AGE GROUPS WILL BE BASED UPON THE CALENDAR YEAR RULE AS PER FALL 2024 US SOCCER RULES

Teams are guaranteed three (3) 50 minute games.
There will be morning and afternoon tournament sessions.
Morning sessions are from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Afternoon sessions are from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM, which would be played under the lights.

The entry fee is $545 for U8 and $595 for U9 to U12.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express.

Tournament Registration Will Open on August 1st and Close on September 27th at midnight.

Regular registration is from August 1st to September 18th.
Late registration charge of $50 added for teams registering between September 18th and September 27th.
Clubs registering 5 or more teams will receive a $50 discount per team.
Please contact the tournament registrar at northhempsteadcup@gmail.com to register your teams as a group.

Registration Fees are Non-Refundable After Acceptance.

Teams will be seeded into groups of four (4), with major, intermediate, and minor brackets offered whenever possible.  The North Hempstead Cup reserves the right to combine age groups, if appropriate and to create alternate bracket

This is a patch exchange tournament. Teams are expected to have an adequate number of team patches to exchange with opposing team players and coaches after each game.

 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS 

All participating teams must be properly registered and in good standing with the USYSA (or national equivalent) and sanctioned by their state or national soccer association. Only Club Teams with a maximum of three (3) guest players are accepted.  Each team must submit a Team Roster approved by the League, Club President, Registrar, or designated officer. 

All players must be born in the year of their age classification or later.  Player registration cards duly authorized by a team’s state or national soccer association or equivalent shall be uploaded as proof of age and eligibility and required at all games for inspection by referees or tournament officials.

All teams must upload a medical release form for each rostered and/or guest player.

All teams must upload approved guest player forms for each guest player.

All out of state teams must upload permission-to-travel forms approved by their state / national association.

No player is allowed to be registered with more than one team or to transfer from one team to another during the tournament. Guest players will be allowed with up to a maximum of 3 guest players playing with the purpose of maintaining a team’s competitiveness.  There is an unlimited amount of guest players from the same club.

 

INCLEMENT WEATHER REFUND POLICY

Should the tournament be canceled in its entirety due to weather conditions, affected teams will receive an 80% refund of their registration fee.

 

This is a patch exchange tournament. Teams are expected to have an adequate number of team patches to exchange with opposing team players and coaches after each game.

 

Samba 360 is an all-volunteer 501(C) 3 nonprofit group working in cooperation with many other charities.  The primary mission of Samba 360 is to provide under-served children with opportunities by providing them with donated sports equipment.  We collect new and gently used gear for distribution nationally and abroad.  We are registered with the New York State Charities Bureau of the New York State Attorney General Office as a Not-for-profit charitable corporation.

In the past ten years, Samba 360 has distributed more than 9000 items, including soccer balls, cleats, uniforms and more to charities that served underserved children throughout South, Central and North America.  Most recently Samba 360 donated more than 200 new basketball jerseys and shorts to New York City’s Washington Heights youth summer basketball program and more than 400 soccer items two weeks ago to Open Field, a charity in Pittsburgh that helps underserved children play soccer as well as sending 10 boxes of soccer gear to a school in Odessa, Ukraine.

Donation boxes will be setup at all venues. Your clutter may be a child's salvation. Your donation will put a smile on a child's face and will promote a healthier lifestyle with better choices.

Visit the website at www.samba360.org for additional information.

 

 

Our site coordinators will be evaluating the fields in real time and will cease play if either (1) the fields are unplayable due to significant standing water or (2) there is thunder/lightning.  In the event of thunder/lightning, play will be stopped for 30 minutes, and the fields will be cleared of all players/personnel/spectators.  If there is no thunder/lightning after 30 minutes then play will resume.  If thunder/lightning continues then play will be stopped until it is deemed safe by our Site Coordinators to continue.

 

Per our Tournament Rules, in the event inclement weather forces cancelation of a game after at least half of regulation time has been played, the game shall be considered official and the score at the point of cancelation shall be the final score.  The Site Coordinator shall make the decision on whether a game has been canceled and shall also have the ability to shorten a game due to excessive delays.

Please ensure that your players are dressed appropriately and have an extra pair (or two) of dry socks to change into and that you have a dry place for them between games (would suggest bringing a tent if you have one).

 

NOTE:  If your players choose to wear a rain jacket/hoodie, they must wear it under their jersey.

 

Should the tournament be canceled in its entirety due to weather conditions, affected teams will receive an 80% refund of their registration fee.