Alcorcón committed an improper alignment in this afternoon's game against Real Zaragoza. Mere Hermoso, coach of the locals, made five players with a subsidiary file coincide on the field for nine minutes, from 74 to 83: Castro, Juanma Bravo, Barbero, Arribas and Sosa. In this way, the Aragonese team will add the three points, since there must be at least seven players with a first team record at all times.
The circular of the Spanish Football Federation reads the following: “Each of the teams must appear and maintain throughout its development, at least seven players of those who make up the staff of the category in which the team is active, except as stipulated in the extraordinary clauses for COVID-19”. In addition, it adds about the players with a branch file: “Only a maximum of four of these players may attend the field of play, except as stipulated in the extraordinary rules for COVID-19.”
In that same circular, this is what the Federation says about these extraordinary measures for the coronavirus: “The minimum number of footballers in the first squad (7) of article 223 will remain fully in force throughout the entire competition except when COVID causes described above operate, in which case the minimum number of licensed players from the first squad to the dispute of the match and throughout its development will be five first-squad players, unless the club had a greater number (up to 7) of first-squad players qualified for the match “.
And continues: “In the event that at any time of the season a team for COVID causes accredited by the team doctor does not have the minimum number of players from the first team provided for in article 233 and following of the General Regulations for the dispute of the meeting or during the same meeting, with the adaptations to the COVID provided for in the relevant sections, may play the match with any other player from dependent or subsidiary teams, up to the limit of 5 players from the first team, provided that they have complied with the health and safety protocols of the COVID provided for in the professional competition, do not exceed the maximum number of foreign players provided for in article 230 of the General Regulations and without such circumstance being considered as no-show and loss of the match, nor will it be a cause for a request to suspend the match by the affected club. The club must line up all the players of the first squad qualified for the match when there are seven or less. If for any circumstance one of these players abandons the dispute of the match, it will be cause of non-appearance and loss of the match ”.
In this way, a team can line up less than seven licensed players from the first team as long as the club doctor proves that they do not have the minimum number of players as a result of COVID-19 and, in addition, they would have to be in the team at all times. field all those players of the first team when they are seven or less.