Guide to merged clubs, 2024-25

[Anonymous]

Let me see if I've got this straight:

Fairfax Virginia Union (ECNL) - BRYC, McLean, Vienna (all have B teams in ECNL Regional)

VDA (ECNL) - VSA, PWSI, Herndon (all have B teams in ECNL Regional, though Herndon is boys only in Regional - are they still involved with VDA?)

NVA (ECNL) - Loudoun, Virginia Valor (both have B teams in ECNL Regional; Valor is itself a merger of SYA and Chantilly)

Maryland United (ECNL) - 2013 merger/rebranding between Freestate and Waldorf

UNMERGED IN ECNL, MLS NEXT AND GA
Arlington (girls/boys ECNL; B teams in ECNL regional)
Bethesda (girls ECNL, boys MLS Next; B teams in NAL)
Springfield (girls GA, boys MLS Next; B teams in NAL)
Potomac (boys ECNL, boys B teams in ECNL regional, girls teams in EDP)
Alexandria (boys MLS Next, boys B teams and girls teams in NAL)
The St. James FC (Virginia) (girls GA, boys ... ???)
VA Revolution (girls GA, boys EDP)

UNMERGED IN ECNL REGIONAL
Great Falls Reston (weren't they merged with someone at some point?)
Lee Mount Vernon
DCSC
Stafford
Villarreal (boys)

(Virginia Reign is in Williamsburg. Virginia United is in Roanoke.)

UNMERGED IN EDP - some may be outside DMV area
Achilles
AC Milan Academy Va
Beltsville SA
Bowie
BVBIA
Cerritos SA
Cheverly SC
Coppermine SC
Davidsonville FC
DC Way Academy
DC XI Project
DC Youth Futbol Club
District of Columbia Football Club
DMV Gaindes
DMV United Soccer Club
Fairfax City Academy
Greater Severna Park Athletic Association
Gunston SC
Joga FC
Liverpool FC IA Md
Luciano Emilio SC
Manassas SC
Manassas United
Maryland Bobcats
Maryland Elite
Maryland Fusion
Maryland Independent MUSC
Maryland International SC
Maryland Rush
MoCo 1776
Montgomery Soccer (MSI)
Montgomery Travel SC
Montgomery United SC
Northern Virginia United Academy
Old Line Football Club
Premier AC
Rockville Olney Soccer Academy Legends
Rockville Soccer Club
Takoma Park SC
Team America
Virginia Rush SC
Washington Capital United

UNMERGED IN NCSL
Annandale (still affiliated with Villarreal somehow or no?)
Burke AC
Champions FC
Club Deportivo Sterling
DORADUS
FPYC
FC Dulles
Fredericksburg FC
Fredericksburg SC
Leesburg FC
NVSC
Old Dominion FC
Olney Boys and Girls Club
Real World FC
Soccer on the Hill
South County AA
VISTA (includes HL92 SA, Vazquez Academy, Apex FC, Freedom FC)

[Anonymous]

You need to turn on the Bachelorette finale and not doing this kind of inanity

[Anonymous]

Who cares.
Jesus get a life

[Anonymous]

Virginia Reign is a merger of Tidewater Sharks and Virginia Legacy.

[Anonymous]

St James Girls B teams are in NCSL.
VRSC Girls B teams are in NAL

[Anonymous]

alright i'll play

Great Falls/Reston was originally apart of the NVA merger

Springfield was originally apart of the Union merger

Chantilly was originally apart of the VDA merger

[Anonymous]

DCSC used to be called Stoddert. They acquired Brookland FC and DCSC Brookland is close to being no more.

DMSA (Dematha) + Roadrunners are now Bethesda Red and Navy?

[Anonymous]

Great Falls-Reston was initially part of NVA along with Loudoun Soccer and Valor. After losing most of their best players to NVA, they then left the "partnership" as quickly as they joined it. Not long after that, DMV FC merged with GFR and Nadir Moumen took over as the GFR TD (while also still holding multiple jobs with MYS/FVU).

[Anonymous]

Is this real or an AI post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great Falls-Reston was initially part of NVA along with Loudoun Soccer and Valor. After losing most of their best players to NVA, they then left the "partnership" as quickly as they joined it. Not long after that, DMV FC merged with GFR and Nadir Moumen took over as the GFR TD (while also still holding multiple jobs with MYS/FVU).

Rumor on the street is that NVA is still looking for a 3rd partner and Sterling participated in the “sister club scrimmages” at some age groups along with Valor and LS. Not sure that addition will help NVA much, but will likely have the same effect on Sterling that it did GFR and just move top players over to LS earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great Falls-Reston was initially part of NVA along with Loudoun Soccer and Valor. After losing most of their best players to NVA, they then left the "partnership" as quickly as they joined it. Not long after that, DMV FC merged with GFR and Nadir Moumen took over as the GFR TD (while also still holding multiple jobs with MYS/FVU).

Rumor on the street is that NVA is still looking for a 3rd partner and Sterling participated in the “sister club scrimmages” at some age groups along with Valor and LS. Not sure that addition will help NVA much, but will likely have the same effect on Sterling that it did GFR and just move top players over to LS earlier.

The whole point of any ECNL alliance is to get the top players on the ECNL team. This is in both the players interest and the ECNL club. It is only angry parents that want their prized U-12 team to stay together so they can "win" some big tournament.

The reality is if a kid has the talent for ECNL or MLS next there is no reason they should stay on a small club like GFR, they need the competition so they can continue to grow. Unfortunately the child will level out by not moving up

Fax

[Anonymous]

VDA isn't a merger, it's a partnership. it started out like 8-9 years ago between VSA and PWSI and Herndon was added to the partnership about 2 years ago. I don't think any of these are "mergers," but rather, partnerships between clubs to identify players eary on for their ECNL/MLSN teams.

[Anonymous]

Dcsc merged with Wcu for ecnl rl

You left out the grandaddy of all mergers. Armour started off as a merger between SAC, bays, thunder, and pipeline so that they could keep dev academy in bmore. Then it just eventually became sac bc they froze all the coaches out who brought their teams over to start the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:alright i'll play

Great Falls/Reston was originally apart of the NVA merger

Springfield was originally apart of the Union merger

Chantilly was originally apart of the VDA merger

Vienna replaced Chantilly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:alright i'll play

Great Falls/Reston was originally apart of the NVA merger

Springfield was originally apart of the Union merger

Chantilly was originally apart of the VDA merger

Vienna replaced Chantilly

Vienna only did VDA for a couple of years.