REGISTRATION
2026 Season
Fair Lawn Football & Cheer Registration
Register your player or cheerleader for the 2026 season. Early bird pricing is available for a limited time — don’t wait.
Registration Fees
Program
Early Bird
After Early Bird
Tackle Football
$325
$275
Cheerleading
$285
$335
Your 2026 Registration cost includes a $100 50/50 raffle booklet, which you can use to offset
your registration cost if you choose to sell the tickets.
Once
you receive your included raffle
booklet, you may either fill it out in your name OR sell it to recoup your money before
submitting stubs. One raffle booklet is included per participant,
with a maximum of two required
booklets per family
*
Discounts
Sibling Discount
Families registering 3 or more children get a $75 discount, applied to the 3rd child (and any additional children) at checkout.
Raffle Booklet Limit
Max 2 raffle booklets required per family. Both this discount and the raffle limit are applied automatically at checkout for Tackle Football and/or Cheer 1–8.
Eligibility
- A player’s team level will be determined by the academic grade level that they are enrolled for in fall of the current season.
- Skill positions: backfield, receivers and ends; defensive backs, ends and linebackers.
- Line-only players must be positioned no further than the outside shoulder of the offensive tackle, must have a hand in the ground, and cannot drop back in pass coverage.
- Weigh In: Any player five pounds or less of the maximum weight at the time of their first weigh- in will be classified as a re-weigh player and have to weigh in at the second weigh-in.
- Each player must have a copy of their birth certificate or legal proof of age. A Hard copy of a printed NBJFL online registration form signed by a legal guardian
- Players who miss the initial weigh-in must weigh in at the Straggler Weigh-In, which follows Week 1.
- If a skill player is required to reweigh but does not, he will be a line-only player by default.
- No player may play for or be rostered for two different teams at the same time during the season, including AAU or any other football team competing in a different league. Eligibility is only for players who reside in the town itself.
Seniors
- Players in the 9th grade are ineligible.
- Seniors shall consist of any player who has not reached his or her 14th birthday before Jan. 1 of their playing year
- Holdback Rule: All rostered sixth grade players will have two consecutive years of playing eligibility in the NBJFL upon finishing their first sixth grade academic year. Players repeating seventh and eighth grade are not eligible for a third season at the Senior level.
- Maximum weight: 180 pounds
- Maximum Skill (outside the tackles) Weight: 142 pounds.
- Above-skill weight will be deemed “line only
Juniors
- Juniors shall consist of any player who has not reached his or her 12th birthday before Jan. 1 of their playing year.
- Players must be in the fifth and sixth grade. Seventh graders are ineligible
- Maximum weight:143 lbs.
- Maximum skill: 120 lbs.
Pee Wee
- Pee Wees shall consist of any player who has not reached his or her 10th birthday before Jan. 1 of their playing year.
- Players must be in the third or fourth grade. Fifth graders are ineligible
- Maximum Weigh: 120 lbs.
- Maximum Skill Weight: 96 lbs
Mighty Mites
- Seniors shall consist of any player who has not reached his or her 8th birthday before Jan. 1 of their playing year.
- Third-grade players are ineligible. Exception: if they have not reached their 8th birthday before Oct. 1 of the playing season.
- Maximum Weight: 110
- Maximum Skill weight: 85 lbs.
- No reweigh for Mighty Mites.
Flag
- The flag program is recreational and not a part of the NBJFL. Kindergarten and first graders are eligible.