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Code of Conduct

Intent:The Fairfield County Basketball League promotes the concept of good conduct by all participants including players, coaches, referees, parents and spectators. This concept will provide a safe athletic environment, good role models and a sense of community spirit throughout the league. FCBL participants are to maintain and promote the highest standards of conduct at all times. By doing this, FCBL will prove that good conduct and competitive sports can co-exist.

Note that we have a separate website home page tab that details our Technical Foul avoidance policy. Please read it as well as the rest of this note.

Everyone will:

  2. Respect the property of others including all gym facilities.

Players will:

  1. Play for fun.
  3. Follow coaches directions and instructions.
  4. Always respect teammates, opponents, coaches and referees.
  5. Support teammates at all times.
  6. Shake hands with opponents after the game.

Parents & Spectators will:

  1. Not force a child to participate in a sport.
  2. Remember that children participate in athletics to have fun.
  8. Cheer for all children on the team Refrain from rude or obnoxious behavior or comments toward the opposing team and officials, and <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: " times="" new="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" "times="" mso-ansi-language:="" en-us;="" mso-fareast-language:="" mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa;"="">never confront referees or other game personnel.

Important FCBL Policy Note:

Unfortunately, boorish adult behavior has become an all too common staple of youth sports in our society. As one of it's primary mission tenets, the FCBL is striving to reverse this trend.

As a practical matter, it is impossible for the FCBL to police the thousands of adults that attend the thousands of FCBL league games that occur in any a given season. So instead, the FCBL takes a number of alternative measures in its attempt to create proper decorum at its games:

1. The FCBL Board considers it the primary responsibilty of its member programs to police their own spectators. Accordingly, the FCBL encourages those programs to have all of their players' parents sign Code of Conduct contracts, similar to the example posted under this website's
Documents home page tab.

2. If the FCBL Board gets continuing reports of misconduct from the attending crowds for any given team, that team, and possibly, its entire governing program will be expelled from the FCBL. The FCBL does not promise to devote the resources to thoroughly investigate these incidents, nor does the FCBL promise to provide a "fair trial" before choosing to expel a team or program that has developed a reputation of misconduct. It is simply more administratively efficient for thr FCBL to sever its relationship with "problem crowd teams".

3. Accordingly, the FCBL Board would encourage any responsible spectator to approach any  fellow misbehaving spectator and explain to them that their boorish behavior is not only inappropriate, but it is seriously jeapordizing their team's future ability to participate in our league. 

Coaches will:

  2. Be a positive role model by respecting all players, coaches, referees, parents and spectators at all times. Coaches should not direct negative comments at the opposing team.
  3. Learn and play by the rules of the game.
  5. Never lose their temper.
  10. Provide a safe environment for the children to play.

Again, if you are a coach for a FCBL team, please visit and read our website home page tab that details our Technical Foul avoidance policy. 

"Problem Coaches" have been and will continue to be expelled from our League. This is a youth league, model adult behavior takes priority over any basketball technicality argument point. 


Although the FCBL only has a limited and indirect relationship with the Referees of League games, it has established the following guidelines for ethical standards of conduct for all officials. It is expected that Referees will:
