KCYLL Timekeeper Guidelines

  1. Visiting team provides the timekeeper who is required to meet with the Field Manager fifteen minutes before the start of the game. The Field Manager will review the timekeeper responsibilities and ensure the time keeper understands how to operate the game clock.
  2. Clock Rules:
  3. Running Clock: 12 minute running clock periods.
  4. Time between periods. 2 minutes between each period, 5 minutes at half time.
  5. Stopped Clock. Clock stops only for official’s called time out for a team time out (2 per half, 1 minute stopped clock) for injury (clock stopped until player removed from field and play restarted by officials) and for dead ball whistles (out of bounds, penalty whistle, etc.) during last two minutes of game if score differential is two goals or less.
  6. Keeping on Schedule. Duration of play and breaks between periods or at half time or during last two minutes of play may be shortened at the discretion of the Field Manager as needed to keep games on schedule.
  7. Warnings at end of periods/game. Time keeper must advise the near side official when 30 seconds remains in the period, and do a count-down during the last 10 seconds.
  8. Time serving penalties (flag down penalties) will be timed by the time keeper. Except for official’s time outs the penalty clock is running time. The time served for the penalty is 1.5 times the amount of time assessed by the official: 45 seconds for a 30 second technical foul, 1:30 for a 1 minute personal foul call, and 4:30 for 3 minute call. The penalty time starts when the player is kneeling in the penalty area and the whistle blows to restart play, whichever is later, and is stopped during any official’s time out call.
  9. Penalty Enforcement. Some clocks will track up to four penalties at one time. If your clock does not have that feature, you should keep a tally sheet with the player’s number, the duration of the penalty, and your calculation when the penalty expires.
  10. Penalty Release. When the player’s time served is within 10 seconds, you should count out the remaining time and at the end of the penalty time, call out “Penalty Released.” Note that usually, but not always, penalties being served are released when the team fouled scores a goal. This does not happen if the official designates the penalty as “non-releasable.” If there is more than one penalty assessed against a player, the player must serve the full time of any non-releasable foul followed by any other penalties time until that penalty is served or the other team has scored.
  11. Overtime. Games ending in a tie will have a 5 minute sudden victory running clock overtime, or such time as the bench official determines in order to keep the games on schedule. The same clock stoppage rules apply. If neither team scores the game is reported as a tie.
  12. Questions. Any questions about the time being assessed for penalties should be addressed to the official announcing the penalty to the bench. Other questions about when the clock should be stopped or how to use the clock should be addressed to the Bench Official.