FAQ - Club season

  • The Competition Committee (CC) recommends using the Nationals, or another tournament played during the current season as the Qualifier (EUCQ), but it is up to the national federations to decide how they assign bids to EUCR. At National Championship, there is normally the highest participation of teams and is already a well-working system in most European Countries. Federations can also build a “Section” and run a larger EUCQ (single event or series), if the national championships are too small to be really competitive. If national championships are traditionally played during fall, an extra event where most teams participate can be used as EUCQ. See also Transition 2025

  • A Team is a group of players, who enter the EUCS under the same roster. There is no geographical or legal boundary to define a team.

    A Club is a group of players, who regularly train together and develop as a group. Normally a Club is a legal entity and is bound to a certain area, where training take place. Normally players pay a membership fee to be part of a Club and are registered of the Club roster.

    The CC encourages Clubs to enter the Series, in order to stimulate the development for Ultimate in their area.

  • Yes. A roster must be submitted within the term defined on the EUCS webpage and must be certified by the national federation.

  • Yes, a player can switch teams ONCE. After that switch, players are bound to the teams they switched to.

  • Sure! There is no regionality or club membership restriction for a EUCS Roster.

    The only restriction is that one player can be placed on one roster.

  • The EUCS eligibility rules say that you have to define your team before the EUCR. This team must also play the EUCQ following the eligibility rules valid in that nation.

    If in your nation there is no real 7v7 national league on grass, which can be used as a qualifier, then your nation is still allowed to nominate the teams which qualify for regional.

    The roster for this team, which does not need to have any geographical or club restrictions, must be submitted prior to Invite / EUCR.

    We are aware that, especially in countries with a lower number of players, the team size in the league is kept small on purpose in order to have more teams and that the main focus in the league is on the development of new players. These small teams cannot compete internationally with that size and with that average playing level.

    In this case, federations should either organize a different event as a qualifier and let teams play with their large EUCS roster or have their own national eligibility rules for teams who play internationally, like allowing teams to merge prior to the submission of the EUCS roster.

  • There is no limit to additions. But a player can only switch teams once in the entire season. There is no difference in the divisions. Playing with Team A in Mixed and Team B in Open/Women still counts as one switch.

  • The CC does not allow any kind of exceptions to the eligibility rules. The CC saves the right to tighten the rules if it gets apparent that teams abuse the system.

  • Yes, the player can switch at any time during the season. After that they ar bound to the team they switched to.

  • You are free to define “who” your team is in the actual season as you prefer. It is not necessary that players on your roster, pay membership or live in your city. Your country must certify that the players on your EUCS-Roster also follow its national eligibility rules.

  • Differently from a usual tournament roster, where you normally fill in all and only the players, who will participate, the EUCS roster is to define your team during the whole EUCS season, so you should add all your available players, regardless if they will play all EUCS tournaments or not. There is just a technical limit of 50 players in the roster submission form.

  • The national federation must approve the EUCS rosters.

  • The club is not equal Team. Each Team participating in EUCR must have their own EUCR roster. If a club is able to field more teams at EUCR, they are considered by the CC as completely independent teams, and additions are subject to point 4.4 of the eligibility rule. Both teams can qualify for EUCF.

  • Yes, a player can switch teams at any time during the season. After that, switch they are connected to their new team for the rest of the season