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Post by Soccerhouse on Apr 18, 2018 15:37:25 GMT -5
New Structure Replaces Existing Regional Leagues Programming US Youth Soccer National Leagues Announces Initial Eight Conferences FRISCO, Texas (April 18, 2018) — US Youth Soccer is pleased to unveil its new US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program for high-level competitive leagues that will kick-off in the 2018-19 soccer season. The US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program will feature a network of Conferences (formerly known as Regional Leagues) that are more geographically focused, under one leadership and management structure, and linked into the highly successful National League and National Championship Series. The current system of US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues (Eastern Regional League, Midwest Regional League, Southern Regional Premier League and the Far West Regional League) will cease to exist at the conclusion of the 2017-18 soccer season. The new US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program structure for 2018-19 will commence in the Fall of 2018 and will feature two tiers of competition: The National Tier called the US Youth Soccer National League that will feature a total of 176 teams in the 13U through 19U age groups in each gender. [National League Qualified teams for 2018-19] The Multi-State Tier comprised of leagues each individually called a US Youth Soccer National League (Geographic Area) Conference [in the previous system these were known as the Regional Leagues] The Conferences are now under the management umbrella of the highly successful US Youth Soccer National League. League Managers will oversee the day-to-day activities of the Conferences in accordance with National Leagues Policy and the National Leagues Rules and Regulations. www.usyouthsoccer.org/us-youth-soccer-announces-new-leagues-structure---the-us-youth-soccer-national-leagues/
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Post by cleansheet on Apr 18, 2018 15:52:59 GMT -5
New Structure Replaces Existing Regional Leagues Programming US Youth Soccer National Leagues Announces Initial Eight Conferences FRISCO, Texas (April 18, 2018) — US Youth Soccer is pleased to unveil its new US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program for high-level competitive leagues that will kick-off in the 2018-19 soccer season. The US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program will feature a network of Conferences (formerly known as Regional Leagues) that are more geographically focused, under one leadership and management structure, and linked into the highly successful National League and National Championship Series. The current system of US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues (Eastern Regional League, Midwest Regional League, Southern Regional Premier League and the Far West Regional League) will cease to exist at the conclusion of the 2017-18 soccer season. The new US Youth Soccer National Leagues Program structure for 2018-19 will commence in the Fall of 2018 and will feature two tiers of competition: The National Tier called the US Youth Soccer National League that will feature a total of 176 teams in the 13U through 19U age groups in each gender. [National League Qualified teams for 2018-19] The Multi-State Tier comprised of leagues each individually called a US Youth Soccer National League (Geographic Area) Conference [in the previous system these were known as the Regional Leagues] The Conferences are now under the management umbrella of the highly successful US Youth Soccer National League. League Managers will oversee the day-to-day activities of the Conferences in accordance with National Leagues Policy and the National Leagues Rules and Regulations. www.usyouthsoccer.org/us-youth-soccer-announces-new-leagues-structure---the-us-youth-soccer-national-leagues/Is this the official death of RPL? Such a confusing press releases.
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Post by Soccerhouse on Apr 18, 2018 15:56:24 GMT -5
Yea, as mentioned before in other posts about rumors about this - the region has now been broken up into seperate conferences.
Looks like a pretty good change from before that included Tenn and Florida -- and teams still can compete in State cup and regionals etc. Win Win
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Post by soccerdaddy on Apr 18, 2018 17:55:15 GMT -5
Time for a new sub-board?
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Post by infoguy on Apr 18, 2018 18:06:26 GMT -5
This is a great win - it’s still usys, and there’s a promotion path, plus someone else is administering it with less travel.
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Post by dad on Apr 18, 2018 19:16:37 GMT -5
Any word on how many teams?
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Post by soccermaxx72 on Apr 19, 2018 7:07:35 GMT -5
smart move by US Youth Soccer, totally jumped ahead of the new champions league and took their thunder!
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Post by putmeincoach on Apr 19, 2018 7:09:17 GMT -5
There will be Premier 1 and a 1st division from what I was told. My question is what GA teams are doing the sunshine conference? That line in the middle of GA looks to move Savannah teams to FL but what other GA clubs?
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Post by soccerheaven on Apr 19, 2018 7:33:55 GMT -5
Now it gets interesting. What will the Big 5 do now. Do they cave or maybe they get punished and not allowed into new Piedmont league. Was this a push to get changes made?
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Post by infoguy on Apr 19, 2018 8:55:14 GMT -5
So for some of the big clubs, I don’t believe the SCL (Champions rumored league) is to necessarily replace the USYS RPL (newly formatted conference deal). So the 2 leagues aren’t necessarily tit for tat.
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Post by SoccerMom on Apr 19, 2018 9:32:54 GMT -5
Now it gets interesting. What will the Big 5 do now. Do they cave or maybe they get punished and not allowed into new Piedmont league. Was this a push to get changes made? i believe they get punished if the other clubs get their way. Thing is, I have heard they most don't care because they were already fed up with RPL, but what happens when a team wins Athena A or Classic 1...do they tell them no, you cant play RPL or whatever they call it? Then those clubs will just stop participating all together in the state league...thats $$ that GA soccer will loose. Its such a big mess
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Post by soccerheaven on Apr 19, 2018 9:59:28 GMT -5
Ok, Let me get this straight. When DA was announced the Big 5-6 or just the big clubs left GA Soccer for that league and GS did nothing and these clubs still associated with GS with all other teams in their programs. So why do you think they would be punished now when never punished the last time. Other then the smaller clubs saying they wont play in their tournys what can GS do when the rules have not been broken.
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Post by footy on Apr 19, 2018 10:12:31 GMT -5
Ok, Let me get this straight. When DA was announced the Big 5-6 or just the big clubs left GA Soccer for that league and GS did nothing and these clubs still associated with GS with all other teams in their programs. So why do you think they would be punished now when never punished the last time. Other then the smaller clubs saying they wont play in their tournys what can GS do when the rules have not been broken. I'm guessing the difference is that when DA was announced, all the clubs still kept teams in GA Soccer?
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Post by SoccerMom on Apr 19, 2018 11:03:32 GMT -5
Ok, Let me get this straight. When DA was announced the Big 5-6 or just the big clubs left GA Soccer for that league and GS did nothing and these clubs still associated with GS with all other teams in their programs. So why do you think they would be punished now when never punished the last time. Other then the smaller clubs saying they wont play in their tournys what can GS do when the rules have not been broken. The majority of the other clubs that are not part of the big 5, want GA soccer to prohibit any club that participates in any non-sanctioned USYS league such as ECNL, Champions League, NPL or Super Y to be able to participate in RPL/NL. They are voting on this very soon, but per GA Soccer bylaws you cant prohibit these clubs from participating if they earn the spot. The other clubs feel they have more power if they stick together because of #'s. DA falls under US Soccer, USYS is a member of US Soccer, therefore this doesn't apply to clubs that have DA only. The other thing I heard that was being pushed was that the incoming U14DA teams that need to be shuffled back into Select for those clubs that don't have the older ages...will be placed in Classic II Would love to be a fly at the GA soccer offices......
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Post by footy on Apr 19, 2018 11:10:55 GMT -5
The other thing I heard that was being pushed was that the incoming U14DA teams that need to be shuffled back into Select for those clubs that don't have the older ages...will be placed in Classic II Classic II. Ouch. But I guess this is not unexpected. Didn't KSA have to start around Classic II when they first came onto the scene? Of course they moved up quickly....
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Post by SoccerMom on Apr 19, 2018 11:13:25 GMT -5
The other thing I heard that was being pushed was that the incoming U14DA teams that need to be shuffled back into Select for those clubs that don't have the older ages...will be placed in Classic II Classic II. Ouch. But I guess this is not unexpected. Didn't KSA have to start around Classic II when they first came onto the scene? Of course they moved up quickly.... Classic II or III, I don't remember. But yes, they climbed quickly and some of those teams even won State Cup
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Post by soccerheaven on Apr 19, 2018 12:55:11 GMT -5
OKay, Please tell me if I am completely off base. After reading the info on this I cant stop feeling that the Smaller programs are just upset they were not invited to participate in this new SCCL.
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Post by cleansheet on Apr 19, 2018 13:13:54 GMT -5
Classic II. Ouch. But I guess this is not unexpected. Didn't KSA have to start around Classic II when they first came onto the scene? Of course they moved up quickly.... Classic II or III, I don't remember. But yes, they climbed quickly and some of those teams even won State Cup Didn’t three of those KSA teams have to forfeit all regional matches bc they were playing with older boys or undocumented boys?
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Post by soccerlegacy on Apr 19, 2018 13:29:31 GMT -5
OKay, Please tell me if I am completely off base. After reading the info on this I cant stop feeling that the Smaller programs are just upset they were not invited to participate in this new SCCL. My understanding is that there are a couple of points the smaller clubs have issue with. First it is exclusionary, and second and more importantly, because the new league would fall under U.S. club soccer, they would be able to recruit their players without repercussion.
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Post by wyona on Apr 19, 2018 13:49:31 GMT -5
Why wouldn't they be upset about it?? Like soccerlegacy said, it's exclusionary and seems slightly arrogant too. Maybe one day Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France will decide against competing in the World Cup and create the Universe Cup with just the five of them........might give the USA a better chance of qualifying!
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Post by oraclesfriend on Apr 19, 2018 15:54:22 GMT -5
OKay, Please tell me if I am completely off base. After reading the info on this I cant stop feeling that the Smaller programs are just upset they were not invited to participate in this new SCCL. My understanding is that there are a couple of points the smaller clubs have issue with. First it is exclusionary, and second and more importantly, because the new league would fall under U.S. club soccer, they would be able to recruit their players without repercussion. Well I can understand both concerns, but it is my understanding that clubs have been recruiting without repercussions for a long time. How upset were the outside clubs when Concorde, AFU and GSA went to ECNL? (I am not even sure if they all went in at the same time as that was before my kids started playing). It is the same thing. Exclusionary. Run by another entity. How about DA boys and girls? Another question...does anyone have kids playing other sports at club level? If so, do they have this kind of issue with multiple leagues?
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Post by rifle on Apr 19, 2018 20:51:58 GMT -5
To me the press release says it'll be like the old NL and RPL .. but under new management.
Forgive my cynicism, but in the incestuous world of club soccer (the one that elected Carlos Cordeiro to run the Fed) I see a paper dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell having a better chance at making substantive changes.
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Post by Soccerhouse on Apr 19, 2018 21:02:58 GMT -5
To me the press release says it'll be like the old NL and RPL .. but under new management. Forgive my cynicism, but in the incestuous world of club soccer (the one that elected Carlos Cordeiro to run the Fed) I see a paper dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell having a better chance at making substantive changes. You obviously didn’t see the new US org chart. All is good. (Said sarcastically
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Post by guest on Apr 20, 2018 8:10:59 GMT -5
Hmm, does not look like much change to me. Small change in the names and borders of the regions. And potentially a change in the staff who run these. Wasn’t SRPL a sub unit of USYS? How is the Piedmont Conference different from SRPL?
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Post by infoguy on Apr 20, 2018 9:12:18 GMT -5
Hmm, does not look like much change to me. Small change in the names and borders of the regions. And potentially a change in the staff who run these. Wasn’t SRPL a sub unit of USYS? How is the Piedmont Conference different from SRPL? I see it as just a realignment of the regions - creating more, and now they’re called conferences - still state associations under USYS with a path to the NL. I always preferred this.
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Post by SoccerMom on Apr 20, 2018 9:25:40 GMT -5
What i heard was that the guy who ran NL is the guy running this now. He knew there was a problem on how things were run and he is trying to fix it. I'm glad they're fixing and moved out the other people, having to deal them in the past years was bad. They were not bad people just seemed clueless and unprepared at times
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Post by rantingsoccerdad on Apr 21, 2018 9:06:39 GMT -5
Here's what I'm wondering:
1. Will USYS expect this to be everyone's *primary* league? In some areas, teams play in their regular local leagues AND the regional league (which is really just a series of showcases, anyway).
2. How has the qualification process changed? EDP just announced about 15 clubs that would be part of their new conferences and didn't mention how they qualified to get there.
Yes, I'm trying to get answers!
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Post by Soccerhouse on Apr 21, 2018 10:04:23 GMT -5
Here's what I'm wondering: 1. Will USYS expect this to be everyone's *primary* league? In some areas, teams play in their regular local leagues AND the regional league (which is really just a series of showcases, anyway). 2. How has the qualification process changed? EDP just announced about 15 clubs that would be part of their new conferences and didn't mention how they qualified to get there. Yes, I'm trying to get answers! All we can say is from the south region in the past, teams were "supposed " to earn their spots, either by finishing for example in the top 4 in the fall standings at u13, or then often making the final four of state cup etc. They supposedly required roster continuity as well, but that was thrown out, and it became a club based spot vs the team who earned the spot. Best example is ecnl teams earning RPL at u13, then moving on to play ecnl, and then clubs would promote they had ecnl and rpl teams, and fill the rpl teams with new players etc.
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