Comet as a system is constantly evolving and we do fully appreciate that it’s not always easy for clubs to keep up with these changes. Our job is to ensure that playing football is as easy as possible, and our library of videos, walk through guides and access to raising additional support tickets with both Scottish Amateur FA and Scottish FA will help clubs to overcome any challenges that they may have throughout these processes.
We have broken our support into the most common areas below. Please click on each link for more information.
One of the key roles of clubs is being able to register players on the Scottish FA Comet System. Players must be registered with clubs in order to be eligible to participate in any regulated football for that club. Players who play without being fully and properly registered with the club would lead to potential action being taken against the club.
Please note the responsibility for ensuring registrations are correct lies with the club, and please see below for an updated process that must be used from 1st of December 2025.
Once you have the player details loaded into comet, and you generate or send your registration form, it would always be prudent to check that the form will meet the standards required to be confirmed by the Scottish FA. Failure to do so may result in the player not being registered, or be ineligible for games until proper registration is complete.
Please note the player is not classed as registered until this registration check has been completed by the Scottish FA, and a player returned as “Confirmed” on the Scottish FA Comet system.
The Grassroots Governance Team at the Scottish FA will check for 3 pieces of information. Name printed, clear signature and date. As these conditions have been met this would pass.
Upon checking the information on this form, we can see that both the name and signature are in the same font, and are identical. For this reason, this would be rejected.
When we check this form, we can see that we have a name and signature but the date is missing. As registrations require all three parts of this information, this would be rejected.