Clubs according to the membership of the Dutch Athletics Federation

Question

We first open our competitions to our own members and later to other clubs. But now it appears to be possible to register anyway by manually changing your club to an authorized club. We will eventually figure it out, but it would be useful if the overview of registrations (or the export) had a column labeled 'Club according to the Dutch Athletics Federation' - then the differences would stand out quickly enough. (Some are guest members, so it is not necessary to ban them completely, but an alert would be useful). Regards,

Servé

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Answer 1

You can indeed register athletes for any club you like. Currently, there is no way of checking whether the club given corresponds to the club of which the athlete is a member according to the Dutch Athletics Federation.

To be able to check this properly, it would also be necessary to make the membership number/license number compulsory. Without a membership number, it is not possible to check the club.

An athlete can also be a member of several clubs, in which case an athlete is officially only allowed to compete for the club of which he/she is a member, but in practice we often see recreational athletes also participating in club championships.

There are a number of snags in checking the registered club. We are not planning to add this for the time being. We are curious to know how often athletes register under a different club in order to participate in a competition.

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Comments

Thank you. It would make sense that if the registration restriction is enabled for certain clubs, then the license number is mandatory. And that there is a link from the registration to the athletics union data in some way. It doesn't happen often, but I think that restriction makes sense.

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