It's silly to make a list like this without including age group. Clubs do not have consistent teams across ages. It only matters what the team in your player's age group is doing. Nobody cares what the other teams are doing in their own club. |
Why are you trying to make sense!!! DCUM disapproves of your post. Carry on |
Then partner with GA and have them manage the 2nd division without acadamies. With this there's no cost at all NWSL. You get the picture it's faster and cheaper to just partner with an already defined league then to create your own. |
Solid ranking job. What age group did you base this on? |
An average across u13-u19 age groups for girls. |
If only there was some kind of ranking app for this type of thing that would show where clubs rank nationally and is broken out per state. |
Only if rankings reset every season ![]() |
Who can rank the current mid Atlantic girls clubs, all age groups. |
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Pretty solid work. |
Here's the problem. What advantage is their to partner with GA versus partner with ECNL? None, and the player pool at ECNL is better. Just because a couple of MLS owners also own a NWSL team does not mean they are going to mirror the MLS model. Especially when there is not a demand among girls to play professionally in a second tier league for $40K a year. Here is the most interesting thing to me. NC Courage which (with Portland Thorns) is the closest to at NWSL Academy has basically doubled-down this Spring on all things ECNL including just yesterday rolling out the Carolina Development League for girls to U10-U12 to mirro what's on the boys side in NC. |
Nope, but don't worry you probably get some trickle down from me. |
NWSL can control GA through US Soccer. Which is what MLS does with MLSN. ECNL would add and additional level of leadership needed for approvals. |
NWSL is setting up for NWSL Next...
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/nwsl-submits-application-to-u-s-soccer-for-launch-of-division-ii-league-starting-in-2026/ According to the application, eight NWSL teams currently have teams lined up for a 2026 start: Bay FC, Kansas City Current, North Carolina Courage, NJ/NY Gotham FC, Orlando Pride, Racing Louisville, Seattle Reign and Washington Spirit. "According to CBS Sports, all current NWSL teams will have a Division II team by the fourth year, which would correlate to 2029. However, teams that are unaffiliated with the NWSL “will also be welcome to join the Division II league at some point.”" For those unaware MLSN has Academy teams who are associated with MLS pro clubs and non Academy teams in the same league. NWSL just announced that Academies will happen. They've also stated that there will be other non Academy clubs involved in the league. This is basically MLSN. The only thing thats not announced is a partnership with a youth league. |
This is a Tier 2 adult league. its akin to NLS Next Pro. Nothing to do with youth soccer. They even stated in the goal.com article it was for "post-college" players. |