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In this section, you will need to select YES or NO to all answers, apart from 4.2 where you will have the option of uploading a copy of your Club Safeguarding policy.
To upload a cop of this policy you need to click on the Red paper icon highlighted.
In the pop-up box that appears, you then need to change the document type to Supporting document instead of Generated by COMET.
You then need to click the Choose button and upload your Clubs Policy by double clicking on it wherever it is saved on your device.
The aim of the Club Accreditation programme is to raise standards at every junior club in Wales' six area associations, by ensuring clubs have more and better coaches, all qualifications are valid and the provision and procedures in place are conducive to positive experiences for all our players.
Our Club Accreditation Criteria explains what clubs need to achieve Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Standard level accreditation.
Each club needs to complete a Club Accreditation application for the FAW to assess what level they're operating at, in terms of coaching, safeguarding and governance. Each club needs to achieve Standard level to be permitted to play junior football every season.
From the 2020/21 season, the way clubs submit their Club Accreditation applications changed to being made via the COMET system.
To use COMET for Club Accreditation, clubs need to take the following steps:
1. Add the person responsible for club accreditation as a user;
2. Register club coaches, staff and officials as well as fill in club information such as listing your teams and adding club contact and social media details.
To access a training Webinar on Club Accreditation held in advance of the move to COMET, as well as other useful information regarding the Club Accreditation programme, click here.
For the 2022/23 season, only new clubs or clubs that failed to achieve accreditation in the 2021/22 season will be required to complete the process.
If you were accredited last season, you will have that level rolled over for the 2022/23 season and do not need to complete this application.
Clubs that want to try and achieve a higher level are also welcome to submit a new application this season.
When Club Accreditation went live on the COMET system, a new club user role was created, Club Licensing Club Responsible.
You can add this role for other users by going to your My Club dashboard and clicking New User, then adding the user details and ticking the box next to Club Licensing Club Responsible (as shown above), and saving.
You can also add the Club Licensing user permission to existing users by selecting the Users tab in your My Club dashboard and clicking on the relevant user. Click Edit and tick the box next to Club Licensing Club Responsible, and save.
PLEASE NOTE: You cannot amend your own user access on COMET, so if you do not have another person at the club with the User Creator role, please log a help ticket via the Comet System and the FAW will go in and tick this box for you.
For full details on how to add and edit club users to give them access to this role, click here.
Once the application has been set up by the FAW, the relevant user within your club will get an email to notify them of this, along with a link to take them to COMET.
Once logged into COMET, click on the License Application button on the left-hand side and then click on My applications to see all available licensing applications for your club.
Once you are on this page, click on the relevant Club Accreditation application for the season and it will take you onto the application.
The Club Accreditation application is split into 6 sections on COMET. As a club you will need to go into each section and answer all questions.
PLEASE NOTE: For Club Accreditation purposes, the Stadium will always be defaulted to Dragon Park in the top right hand side of the application so do not worry that your grounds aren't showing here.
You will answer the questions in a number of different ways. Some will require free-hand typing, some will require ticking a box Yes or No, some will require you to upload a document and a number will ask you to upload a report from information already detailed on your club COMET account.
For the questions that require a report, this report is generated by the system so can be uploaded at the click of a button.
However, you will need to ensure as a club you have the required information in place on COMET first to provide the full information.
As an example when asked for a list of club teams - if you have not entered all of your teams on COMET in your club section, when you upload the required report, the information will be incomplete.
Therefore, before completing the accreditation application, ALL clubs will need to ensure ALL coaches, staff, officials and team information that is required has been added to their COMET club account.
Questions highlighted in red, are mandatory criteria to meet Standard award.
Questions highlighted in black, are optional criteria to achieve a higher award or for additional information.
Before actioning any of the sections on the application, you firstly need to click the Edit button highlighted.
This section will require the following:
1.1 - Select the Yes or No button depending on your circumstances.
1.2 - Select which level of acreditation you are apllying for this season from the drop down menu.
1.3 - Free hand type the other league competitions your club’s teams take part in if relevant to your club if competing across more than one league organisation i.e. girls league, pan-disability league
This is an optional question; those clubs whose teams participate in one league only will not need to complete this question.
Section 2 will require you to upload a report generated by COMET for each role.
The information will then show on your application if you have registered a person in each role on your COMET club account prior to completing this application.
To upload the report, click on the cog icon highlighted on each and the system will do the rest.
If you wanted to then view what you have uploaded, you can click on the paper icon to view the contents of the report and check everything is correct.
Everytime you click on the cog icon it will upload a new copy of the report so please ensure to only click this once and then only again if there are any updates you need to add.
The FAW will review these and can remove outdated or incorrect versions if needed.
For this section you will need to spend some time ensuring all personnel for the roles you can see are registered on COMET with your club.
You will need to do the following on this section:
3.1 - Click the cog icon to upload a report taken from comet of all your teams you should have added to the system before completing this application.
In this section, you will need to select YES or NO to all answers, apart from 4.3 where you will have the option of uploading a copy of your Club Safeguarding policy.
To upload a cop of this policy you need to click on the Red paper icon highlighted.
In the pop-up box that appears, you then need to change the document type to Supporting document instead of Generated by COMET.
You then need to click the Choose button and upload your Clubs Policy by double clicking on it wherever it is saved on your device.
5.1 - This section requires you to input (cap 5.1) a link to your clubs website if you have one.
5.2 - This section requires you to enter every social media platform that your club is utilising.
This section requires you to select one or more ambitions that your club are looking to focus on over the next 12 months.
Simply select yes or no depending on what you consider will be your main on and off field ambitions for the next 12 months.
The final 2 questions are then just drop down options to select.
You are able to save your progress and re-visit as often as you may need to before Submitting your application for approval.
After clicking Edit to firstly begin inputting information, you can click the Save as SUBMITTED button to save any changes and come out of the application.
When you are happy everything has been completed simply click the Save as SUBMITTED button highlighted.
The status of the application will then be changes to SUBMITTED and the FAW will be able to see this has been Submitting and for them to review your application and award an appropriate accreditation level.
If any further information is required the FAW can then return this application and leave notes if applicable for the club to action accordingly. When this happens the club manager and club licensing club repsonsible users at your club will get an email to inform them of this so they know further action may be required.
As you can see the application itself is a very straightforward process - it is ensuring all the relevant personnel and club information such as teams and contact details have been registered or added on COMET beforehand that will take the most time when completing the Club Accreditation programme on COMET.
If clubs require support in completing or submitting their application, they can email cap@faw.co.uk with their application query.
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