Electronic Match Cards and Team Management

A reminder to all clubs there are support materials now available below and on the Electronic Match Cards (EMC) page, including step-by-step guides following the update to Team Management and Electronic Match Cards (EMC), as well as contact details on who to contact if you have an issue.

Even if your teams don’t start their league fixtures until mid-September, we would recommend beginning to familiarise yourselves with the system again now to make sure any questions can be answered and resolved ahead of time.

For players to be available to be selected, they must be assigned to the corresponding team’s squad in the Team Management section of GMS.

Points to note:

  • There is no limit to the number of players that can be assigned to a specific team.
    • The 100 effectively registered player limit does, however, remain.
  • A player being assigned to a team that requires effective registration does not make that player effectively registered. Therefore, please ensure that your players are effectively registered, where appropriate.
  • Newly affiliated (age-grade)/effectively registered (adult) players must be put into the playing squad before being put into the corresponding team’s line-up on EMC.
  • As long as they are eligible by age/gender, there are no limits to the number of teams that an individual player can be assigned to within a club.
  • Players can be allocated to a team en masse, as detailed in the guide above.
  • Once a player has been assigned to a team, they will not need to be reassigned unless the club chooses.
  • Players no longer require a ‘non-registered’ player role to be assigned to a team. Instead, the Electronic Match Card will allow players to be selected that have been added to the ‘Playing Squad’ list inside the Team Management module for each team. Please note, players cannot be created directly through the EMC and need to be created in GMS and subsequently allocated to the appropriate team.

For any queries, please get in touch with competitions-development@rfu.com