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title: "Borrowing Rules"
canonical: "https://help.dribl.com/space/LA/143949828/Borrowing%20Rules"
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### Overview

Borrowing Rules are an important part of maintaining integrity across leagues while providing flexibility for clubs to field teams across the competition due to unforeseen circumstances. These rules can be defined at different levels across a Season, including Competition, League, and Team with each allowing varied definitions.

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<summary>Competition</summary>

Setting Borrowing Rules under Competition allows borrowing restrictions to be set which are enforced across all leagues within the competition.

To access the Competition Borrowing Restrictions, complete the following steps:  
 

1. [Login ](https://app.dribl.com/)to ***DRIBL***
2. Select **Competitions **from the **Actions** menu or the main navigation menu.
3. Click  (Borrowing Restrictions) for the Competition you want to add a borrowing rule for. The **Competition Borrowing Restrictions** form is displayed.
4. Enter all the required information for the Borrowing Restriction. The default value in each case is *Unrestricted*.

| Team Player Borrowing Limit | The number of times a player can be borrowed per team. |
| --- | --- |
| Match Borrowing Limit | The number of times a player can be borrowed per competition. |
| Matchsheet Borrowing Limit | The number of borrowed players allowed per team per match sheet. |
| Finals Minimum Borrowed Matches Limit | The minimum number of games in a regular season that a player is required to play before they can be borrowed for finals. |

5. Click **Update**.
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<summary>League</summary>

Borrowing limits can be applied to a specific League in a Competition. The thresholds are applied hierarchically where Competition thresholds are applied (if set), then League thresholds are applied (if set). That is, the League thresholds take precedence over Competition thresholds.

The League also provides an additional level of borrowing rule definition to apply restrictions that align to further competition policies defined by the association or competition organisers. The **Borrow Criteria** rule builder enables the definition of any rule-based hierarchy. The parameters that can be used in the rules builder are:

- **Age**: The age the member is turning this calendar year.
- **True Age**: The current age of the member at the time of being borrowed.
- **Team Competition**: Enables borrowing inside or outside of the specified competition [tbc].
- **Age Group**: The age group of the member’s allocated team.
- **Team Age Upper Limit**: The upper age group limit set of the member’s allocated team.
- **Team Age Lower Limit**: The lower age group limit set of the member’s allocated team.
- **Division Rank**: The division priority of the member’s allocated team.

These are used in conjunction with comparison operators to define the rules:

- Less Than
- Greater Than
- Equal To
- Less Than or Equal To
- Greater Than or Equal To
- Not Equal To


To access the League Borrowing Restrictions, complete the following steps:  
 

1. [Login ](https://app.dribl.com/)to ***DRIBL***
2. Select **Leagues **from the **Actions** menu or the main navigation menu.
3. Select the relevant **Competition** from the upper centre of the page.
4. Click  (Borrowing Restrictions) for the League you want to add a borrowing rule for. The **League Borrowing Restrictions** form is displayed.
5. Ensure that **Borrowing** is selected and then enter all the required information for the Borrowing Restriction. The default value in each case is *Unrestricted*.

| Team Player Borrowing Limit | The number of times a player can be borrowed per team. |
| --- | --- |
| Match Borrowing Limit | The number of times a player can be borrowed per competition. |
| Matchsheet Borrowing Limit | The number of borrowed players allowed per team per match sheet. |
| Finals Minimum Borrowed Matches Limit | The minimum number of games in a regular season that a player is required to play before they can be borrowed for finals. |

6. In the **Borrow Criteria** section, enter the additional rules required to borrow players for the Teams in the League. Rules can be created by:

a) Creating a rule manually (or) 

b) Copying a suggested rule 

7. Click **Update**.


*Reference* - How to Create a rule manually

1. Click **+**(Add Criteria) to create a Borrowing rule.
2. Select the **Criteria** and **Condition**, and enter the **Value** being used in the rule.
  **Example**: Allow borrowing for all players over the age of 12.
  **Criteria**: *Age*  
**Condition**: *Greater Than*  
**Value**: *12*
3. Click  (Save) to save the current rule.

> ℹ️ To create nested criteria using logical operators *And* or *Or*, click **+**(Add Nested Criteria).

4. Add further criteria if required.
5. Click  (Save Criteria) to save all the rules.


*Reference* - How to Copy a suggested rule

The **Suggestions **section lists suggestions for borrowing criteria from previous seasons. These can be copied to the current League. Click  (Copy Suggested Criteria) for the specific rule and then click  (Paste Criteria) in the **Borrow Criteria **section to apply the rule. Click  (Save).

> 📝 For some rules, Age Group Mapping is required before copying. To do this, click **Age Group Mappings Required** (# of rules) and perform all the mapping required.
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<summary>Team</summary>

Unrestricted borrowing rules can be set across Teams of a club within a competition. This will allow any players of a team to be borrowed into another with no borrowing restrictions or thresholds enforced. Age eligibility limits can, however, be applied (for example, a 16-year-old playing for the U18s should not be allowed to be borrowed into an All-Age Men’s team).

To access and add a team to be an unrestricted borrowing team, complete the following steps:  
 

1. [Login ](https://app.dribl.com/)to ***DRIBL***
2. Select **Teams **from the **Actions** menu or the main navigation menu.
3. Click  (Unrestricted Borrowing) for the Team you want to add a borrowing rule for. The **Team Unrestricted Borrowing **form is displayed.
4. Click **Add an Unrestricted Team**.
5. For **Allowed Borrowing From Team**, select the team from the dropdown list that players can be borrowed from without restriction.
6. If required, select **Apply Age Restrictions** to apply age eligibility limits.
7. Click  (Create). Add further unrestricted teams if required.
8. Click **Close**.
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