ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
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Anonymous
That’s certainly true, but those are issues that ECNL has to address at a league level. The MLS Next non-academy clubs are their competition on the boys side, and ECNL is getting their clock cleaned. Either accept that you are second fiddle to MLS Next and take 2nd teams back from the power clubs and accept that you are a big, albeit not super competitive league or have a pro pathway through USL or intl academies or something…I don’t know the solution, but it’s only going downhill at the moment. |
Anonymous
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So what happens next?
There are clubs with boys ECNL, but girls not allowed in ECNL. There are clubs with Boys MLS Next (lost ECNL), with girls in ECNL. At some point, MLS NEXT will put the dagger in boys ECNL |
Anonymous
| This is one big game of chess and ECNL is running out of moves |
Anonymous
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Legit question- what does put the dagger in ECNL mean?
So top dog is MLS Academies, in my opinion as it should be. Then most would argue that other MLS Next teams come next. Now they didn’t perfectly picking their inaugural teams, some Clubs aren’t up to the challenge. So in the next few years they for example kick out Achilles for Pipeline and do the equivalent in other markets. They don’t want to grow too big if they want to be seen as the League where coaches can go to get quality players. How does this not leave room for ECNL? Yes the few boys going D1 out of high school will probably come from MLS Next, but with foreign recruitment and the transfer portal that becomes less and less every year. Why can’t ECNL exist for the D2/D3 player, or the good player with other goals? Put EDP and all those random E64 leagues after that. Truly asking is that the death of ECNL if it goes that way? |
Anonymous
ECNL is fine for now but MLSN is the top league for boys. If MLSN cared about dominating the youth soccer market they easily could. ECNL girls is also fine for now but parents are starting to figure out that GA is the same thing. The only difference is the clubs involved. The big unknown right now is if/how NWSL will partner with youth soccer. A working framework has been established by MLS and implemented via MLSN. Logically if NWSL was to follow MLSs footsteps they’d partner with GA and create NWSLN. If this was to happen there would be 20+ ECNL to GA defections year one. |
Anonymous
That bolded part is so wrong..... |
Anonymous
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Not the Death of ECNL by any means necessary. More so ECNL Boys.
It gets tricky. ECNL has a rule where Both boys/girls teams in a club should have their top teams in ECNL. They have been bending this rule for some time now…as some boys ECNL teams have been dropped by ECNL due to their first teams being in MLS next —See Delco in PA. Somehow, Delco has been allowed to keep their girls in ECNL (don’t want to hand them to GA). |
Anonymous
No it’s not |
Anonymous
If GA was the same thing people, other than you, would be talking about it. |
Anonymous
There’s literally 5-6 active DA threads on dcum right now nubnuts. |
Anonymous
792 D1 verbal commitments for the 2025 class & breakdown by platform. #ECNL -575 (72.6%) #GirlsAcademy -166 (21%) All Others -27 (3.4%) 🇨🇦 -24 (3%) There’s a twitter handle that is tracking all this. |
Anonymous
Correct, and how long has ECNL been around? And how many more teams are in ecnl |
Anonymous
Those percentages will look different next year because the 4 top clubs that just announced they are leaving GA probably accounted for a good 15-20% of those 166 |
Anonymous
125 teams in ECNL vs 95 in GA this year |
Anonymous
Quantity over Quality i guess 
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