ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

I’m told no one would ever drop ECNL for MLSN2 how can this be!!?!?

Congratulation for stepping up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m told no one would ever drop ECNL for MLSN2 how can this be!!?!?

Congratulation for stepping up.

Because their first team is mlsn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever cutoff of SY or BY is used, MLSN and MLSN2 will have the same cutoff of 1/1 or 9/1. At our club our 2nd teams just switched to MLSN2 from ECNL and the big selling points were ease of transition of players between teams and the MLSN2 teams playing in the same showcases as MLSN. There is simply no scenario if which MLSN2 teams will be forced to play up an age division in showcases and have no Jan to Aug birthdays while MLSN P2P and Academies will.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Logistically it’s going to be very hard for mlsnext to stay BY on their own. All the u8-u12 leagues will be SY. That would mean sept-December birthdays from their own club would need to skip u12 to change from a SY team to a BY team and any sept-December birthdays coming from the outside will need to skip an age group. It’s making the barrier to entry of a mlsnext team too high for 4 months of birthdays which means fewer kids and less $$$. Even in mlsnext, 99% of kids are going to college. There’s no benefit to staying BY that outweighs that logistical nightmare.

I think mlsnext will be SY by 26/27 and mlsnext academies will be SY through u16. England academies have the same 9/1 cutoff. U18 will stay the same as their age classification is already unique.

Makes too much sense to do it any other way… which also means that US soccer may do the opposite.

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[Anonymous]

Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

How to prepare? You must gradually allow NL/RL teams to add Q3/Q4 players to transit to SY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

How to prepare? You must gradually allow NL/RL teams to add Q3/Q4 players to transit to SY.

Doesn’t sound like that’s the plan. Will just be BY for one more year then a complete shift to SY 9/1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

How to prepare? You must gradually allow NL/RL teams to add Q3/Q4 players to transit to SY.

Doesn’t sound like that’s the plan. Will just be BY for one more year then a complete shift to SY 9/1.

Only if ECNL keeps its rule book unchanged for 25/26. We will know soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

How to prepare? You must gradually allow NL/RL teams to add Q3/Q4 players to transit to SY.

Doesn’t sound like that’s the plan. Will just be BY for one more year then a complete shift to SY 9/1.

Only if ECNL keeps its rule book unchanged for 25/26. We will know soon.

It says ECNL will make a formal announcement in a few months. So probably after the tryout window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

Did that email go to all ecnl directors or just your buddy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an email a buddy ECNL club director of mine received from ECNL commissioner.

Given that US Club Soccer, USYS and AYSO have aligned on this topic of going back to school year (9/1-8/31), ECNL will support. This will happen for the 26/27 seasonal year in order to give everyone a chance to prepare.

I hope this helps. I am sure we will communicate this more formally in the coming months.

A year to prepare! Come on now it just can’t take that long to prepare.

[Anonymous]

Honestly it’s ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Wish they would just rip the bandaid off so we can stop hearing from the BY crowd who continue to have their heads in the sand

[Anonymous]

The birth year people have been mostly quiet because the age change is officially confirmed. The current issue is people are assuming ECNL is going to make concessions and change early, which they are not. They are losing players because of the wait time and lame duck year. We’ll hop over to GA until they officially change to School Year in 26/27.

[Anonymous]

Have been hearing rumors locally that many clubs plan with their U-littles to just make SY groups next year and play them up.