Club Rules and Fees

Player Recruitment, Trial and Integration Procedure

1. Purpose and Principles

  • Build a high-quality, values-driven club focused on enjoyment, teamwork, and excellence.
  • Prioritize quality over quantity: few teams, highly competitive, with fulfilled players.
  • Maintain a culture of altruism, tolerance, and solidarity.
  • Ensure new players’ mindset aligns with the club’s aspirations and community spirit (including contribution to club duties and integration in Geneva)

2. Scope

  • Applies to all prospective players requesting to join and to all club officials involved (coach, captain, leadership/core senior players, president, committee).

3. Roles and Decision Authority

  • Coach: Leads the evaluation, observes trials, gathers feedback, and recommends decisions.
  • Team leadership (captain, senior core players) and President: Provide input, especially on fit and needs.
  • Club committee: Ensures decisions follow club strategy and governance.
  • Decision hierarchy: Coach proposes; consensus is sought with captain, president, and senior core; committee provides oversight when needed.

4. Trial Pathway

  • Initial contact: Any player requesting to join is directed to Friday training (may be different for Women’s team, at the discretion of Head Coach).
  • Escalation to Monday: If Friday senior leaders judge it appropriate, the player may be invited to Monday training.
  • Trial limit: Up to three free trial sessions are allowed, on one condition:
    • After the first trial, the player may only return if explicitly invited by the coach.
  • By the end of the third coach-approved trial, the club must give the player a decision.

5. Possible Decisions (after trials)

  1. Authorized to participate in trainings.
  2. Authorized to take a federation license (i.e., join officially/compete).
  3. Authorized to train on Fridays only.
  4. No opportunity in the club; wish the player success in finding another club.

6. Evaluation Criteria

  • Team needs: positions, profiles, roster capacity.
  • If roster is full: a specific, technical discussion must be held among the coach, captain, president, and senior core members.
  • Contribution to club objectives: sporting, ethical, organizational, and financial—consider both the current and next season.
  • Mindset and integration:
    • Respect rules and hierarchies.
    • Participate in all club activities and obligations (e.g., score table duties).
    • Demonstrate willingness to integrate into the team, the club, and the wider Geneva community.
    • Sign and abide the Player’s Charter.

7. Process Standards and Rationale

  • Avoid improvisation: use this routine for every new player to ensure fairness and consistency.
  • Seek consensus rather than divergent voices leading to division.
  • Maintain clear decision-making hierarchy and legitimacy (committee, elected/designed coaches, captain, and senior leaders).
  • Align every individual decision with the club’s short-, medium-, and long-term strategy.
  • Institutionalize processes to achieve excellence, individual fulfillment within the collective, and long-term sustainability of the club.
  • Prioritize thorough evaluation over speed: it is better to invest effort upfront than to manage training disruptions from a poor fit—recent years have confirmed this.

8. Communication Guidelines

  • Set expectations at first contact (trial structure, criteria, and possible outcomes).
  • Provide timely feedback after each trial; formal decision no later than the end of the third trial.
  • If declining, communicate respectfully and supportively, encouraging the player’s search for another club.
  • Initial contact: Any player requesting to join should be introduced to one of the team captains or the Committee Members and is directed to Friday training (may be different for Women’s team, at the discretion of Head Coach).
  • Escalation to Monday: If Friday senior leaders judge it appropriate, the player may be invited to Monday training.
  • Trial limit: Up to three free trial sessions are allowed, on one condition:
    • After the first trial, the player may only return if explicitly invited by the coach.
  • By the end of the third coach-approved trial, the club must give the player a decision.

Annual FEES:

Members of ACGBA (women’s league; men’s league)

a) Annual Fees Men’s Team: CHF 450.-

b) Annual Fees Women’s Team: CHF 475.- (higher licence costs in national league)

c) Students, trainees, unemployed, and part of the training squads only (no participation in competitive games): CHF 300.-

Non-league Members – participants attending only Friday practices

d) Annual: CHF 275.-

Remarks:

– Annual fees must be paid before August 25th; for members who join us during the season, contributions must be paid one week before the payment of the licence. Only people who have paid their fees will be entitled to play games. We request a certificate for students and trainees.

– People without a player licence (tourists) are requested to pay their contribution, at the latest, before their third practice. In other words, all new people will not be entitled to attend after their third practice without having paid their membership fees.

– Contributions should be paid in one time.

Where to pay?

CCP account: 12-13829-1                   Beneficiary: International BBC
IBAN: CH40 0900 0000 1201 3829 1    BIC: POFICHBEXXX