2025 Kanga Cup - Challenging Referee Sanction

Challenging a Referee's Sanction

Kanga Cup Disputes and Disciplinary Form
Section 3 Articles 7 of the 2025 Kanga Cup Disputes and Disciplinary Regulations relates to the:
- challenging of a Yellow Card or Red Card on the basis of mistaken identity on a team sheet or in a Match Official send off report; and
- challenging of a decision by a Match Official, where there is sufficient evidence that an obvious error may have been made by a Match Official in a Match.
Challenging a Sanction on the Basis of Mistaken Identity

If the Team Official believes that a Participant has been mistakenly identified on the team sheet by a Match Official as having received a Yellow Card, Red Card the Team Official must is to refrain from signing the team sheet and instead write the word ‘dispute’ in this section of the team sheet.

If a Participant (or their Club) believes that they have been mistakenly identified on the team sheet by a Match Official as having received a Yellow Card, Red Card, Temporary Dismissal or Temporary Dismissal Suspension, or have been mistakenly identified in a Match Official send off report, the Participant (or their Club) must notify CF by submitting the Challenging Referee Sanction form before the close of business for the next working day after the conclusion of the Match (e.g. where a Match has occurred on a weekend, the form must be sent by 5:00pm on the Monday directly following that same weekend).

Obvious Error in the Decision of Match Official

An obvious error, for the purpose of these Regulations means a decision by a Referee to:
- to issue a direct Red Card when no Red Card was warranted; or
- expel a Team Official when no expulsion was warranted;
being a decision that no reasonable Referee, in possession of all the facts, including those available to Management, could reasonably have made.

If a Club believes that there has been an obvious error in a decision by the Match Official, they must notify CF by submitting the Challenging Referee Sanction form and attaching sufficient evidence

before the close of business for the next working day after the conclusion of the Match (e.g. where a Match has occurred on a weekend, the form must be sent by 5:00pm on the Monday directly following that same weekend).

Please refer to the 2022 Disputes and Disciplinary Regulations for more information about challenging Referee Sanctions.
What type of sanction are you challenging?*

Challenging a Yellow Card, Red Card, or TD on the basis of Mistaken IdentityObvious Error in the Decision of Match Official
Are you completing this form as the Participant or Club Associate on behalf of the Participant?*

ParticipantClub Associate

Match Details
Match Date*

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Date
Kick-off Time*

:HourMinutesAM/PM Option
Competition*
Grade*
Grade*
Grade*
Home Team*
Away Team*

Participant Details
Full Name*

First NameLast Name
FFA Number*
Club*

Mistaken Identity
The participant is challenging the following sanction on the basis of mistaken identity on the team sheet or in a Match Official send-off report:*

Yellow CardTemporary DismissalTemporary Dismissal SuspensionRed Card
I declare, as the participant, that the following Participant of my Club was responsible for the offence:*

First NameLast Name
I declare, as the Club Associate (on behalf of the Participant), that the following Participant of my Club was responsible for the offence:*

First NameLast Name
Please upload a written statement from the actual participant who committed the offence.*

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Obvious Error in the Decision of Match Official
Please outline the incident that you believe that an obvious error may have been made by a Match Official in a Match:*
Please upload evidence to support your case which includes video and/or audio evidence and the relevant Match Official Reports, but excludes any other written statements, photos and stills.*

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Form Completed By
Full Name*

First NameLast Name
Club*
Club Associate Role*
Contact Number*
Phone Number
Email Address*
example@example.com
Digital Signature*

I certify that the information entered above is true and correct and was entered by myself.
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