As we look ahead to a new year, for so many families, your Little League fields are where your community comes alive. To get the 2025 season started, the chartering and insurance enrollment process is now available through the Little League Data Center for leagues to begin this process when they’re ready. Little League International is committed to providing our volunteers with information and support as we work together to navigate this unprecedented situation. Please continue to visit LittleLeague.org/ResourceGuide for the latest information and guidance for this season. If you have additional questions or need support, please submit your question to Little League Support.
Chartering & Insurance Enrollment
Things to do and know throughout the Chartering and Insurance Enrollment Process:
- Officers: Make sure your League Officers are up to date on the Little League Data Center. As a reminder, only League Presidents, Vice Presidents, Treasurers, and Secretaries can complete the chartering and insurance enrollment process.
- Team Numbers: Remember that you can update your team numbers throughout your planning and preparation for the 2025 season, based on the outcome of your player recruitment, what divisions you end up offering, and how your season takes shape. Do your best to estimate the number of teams and divisions of play based on previous seasons. Make sure you update your team numbers as soon as your league understands its total offerings for the season before you start practicing or playing games.
- Sports Connect, the Official Local League Registration Provider of Little League, can assist with tools and resources to help leagues plan registration this season. Visit the Support page for ideas on getting families registered and structuring flexible payment options for 2024.
- Rulebooks: All volunteers and families are strongly encouraged to download the Little League Rulebook App, which will be the exclusive destination for the most up-to-date rule and regulation information, important policies, and instructional videos.
- Reminder, While the use of electronic communications is not permissible, the use of the Little League Rulebook App is permitted in the dugout, as are scorekeeping and pitch count apps (e.g. GameChanger), per Rule 3.17, note, which was updated prior to the 2020 season. Electronic devices should not be on the field.
- Insurance: When chartering for 2025, be aware that the insurance options available are the same as 2024. Notably, the Liability Insurance package provided by various insurance carriers approved by Little League includes enrollment in five (5) separate insurance policies that meet or exceed the Little League Regulations.
- Leagues are encouraged to understand what coverage is provided, to fully review the quoted premiums for their league, and, if they choose, look at other insurance options through another provider that adhere to the minimum requirements for Little League (Regulation I (c) 7). The quoted policies included are: General Liability (GL) (a company affiliated with Allianz Insurance); Directors & Officers Liability (D&O); Cyber Liability; Crime (a company affiliated with Allianz Insurance) ; and Inland Marine/Property Floater (extending some benefits found within Crime Insurance and some new coverages for overall league operations).
- All insurance carriers selected by Little League have an industry standard A or higher rating and provide enrolled Little League programs with affordable coverage for their league operations. These coverages cannot be purchased separately or individually. To ensure there is no gap in coverage between policy years, those leagues enrolling in this program must have their insurance premium paid in full by December 31, 2024.
- Patches: Please note that Rule 1.11, which outlines the patch requirement, was put in place during the 2022 season. In 2022, Little League International established a new, unified patch that reflects all levels of the program. This patch, which matches our new Little League logo, can be used, regardless of the division of play, on your league’s uniforms. “Rocker patches” that can go above the new patch for all divisions and roles will also be available, for those who wish to add those distinctions to your uniforms. If your league still has patches that have been previously purchased, you do not need to replace those patches, and limited quantities of our previous patches are still available, while supplies last. Additional information can be found at LittleLeague.org/Patch. Patches can be purchased at ShopLittleLeague.org with the new patch available soon.
- Opportunities: Throughout the Chartering and Insurance Enrollment process, you’ll also be able to take advantage of special programming and offers to support your league and its operations from Little League’s Official Sponsors, including Topps, T-Mobile, and A.D. Starr.
- Credits: If your league has a credit, which will be shown in the “outstanding balance” box on the Data Center, that credit will be applied to your 2025 chartering and insurance enrollment.
- Leagues who submitted an approved ASAP plan in 2024 also have received their program award based on 15% of their Accident Insurance premium credited through the Data Center.
- Regulation II and Central Registration: Starting with the 2025 season, children at the youngest level of the Little League® Baseball and Softball program (League Age 4-7) throughout the United States will have the ability to register for any Little League program they choose, without respect to any geography- or school-related eligibility requirements. In an effort to assist these families at these youngest divisions to choose the best league for their situation, as well as to further support the administrative needs of our local league volunteers, Little League International will also be launching a Central Registration Platform, which will be mandatory for leagues to use starting with the 2025 season. Please learn more about the updates to Regulation II and Central Registration at LittleLeague.org/2025Registration.
- Child Protection Program Updates: We all share in the responsibility to create a welcoming, safe environment for our community Little League programs. As we continue to evolve our Child Protection Program, background checks for all volunteers are required to be conducted through J.D. Palantine (JDP) with other providers not being accepted and the completion of the new Little League Abuse Awareness Training Course for all volunteers. Learn more at LittleLeague.org/ChildProtection.