#player-eligibility

#player-eligibility

The ELF said it will announce the participants for the 2026 season in the coming weeks, and discussions about the competition format and scheduling were underway. Under the new structure, teams and shareholders will jointly oversee league operations through a board of governors responsible for league-wide planning and budgeting, competition format and licensing, media rights and commercial strategy, expansion across European markets and standardized transparency, reporting, and independent auditing.

In a continuing crackdown by the Southern Section against against students and parents who are supplying inaccurate information on transfer paperwork, Orange Lutheran High announced Tuesday that it has declared a football player ineligible and will forfeit its first two games of the season. The school self-reported the violation after an investigation that lasted for weeks. More than 40 students this fall have been given penalties of two years without being able to play for violating CIF rule 202, which involves providing false information.

Rees-Zammit, now 24, is among 39 players named in the first squad to be picked by the new national head coach, Steve Tandy. The British and Irish Lions winger, who won the most recent of his 32 caps at the 2023 World Cup, made the switch to American football in January 2024 but ended up not featuring in a competitive NFL game.