NCSL Divisions

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Anonymous wrote:When does the ncsl schedule usually come out and do games usually start early or late September? For U10.

It says on the website that the first weekend of play is September 11-12

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When does the ncsl schedule usually come out and do games usually start early or late September? For U10.

It says on the website that the first weekend of play is September 11-12

Thank you. I missed that

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Schedule posted Aug 9

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When does the ncsl schedule usually come out and do games usually start early or late September? For U10.

And who chooses the divisions? The club or league? I thought a couple teams would be placed in the middle division and not bottom.

Page 22 of the ncsl rules

http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/_files/RP%20Manual%20-%20August%202020.pdf

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Thanks all!

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Anonymous wrote:The four "new" teams (by name, at least) to the division are Arlington White, Loudoun Black, McLean White, and SYC Blue. Arlington Blue was D1 during the spring, so they were either renamed to White

The ARL teams became ECNL, then Red, White, Blue, etc. So the former ARL blue (3rd team) is now ARL white (3rd team).

Arlington White was in CCL-II last year. Arlington removed all of their teams from CCL for this Fall. Their Red teams (U13 up) will play ECNL-R and their White teams (C teams) will be in NCSL.

McLean White as listed was the McLean Gold last year (White is now Green, Green is ECNL). McLean Gold played in the 3rd div, so will likely have a very rough season in Div 1.

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McLean White was in D2 last spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean White was in D2 last spring.

The D2 team that was white last year is now McLean green. The team that is now called McLean White is compromised of girls that were gold last year. D3 to D1.

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Some of the schedule is up!

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Is the listing in each division based on each teams "ranking" going in to the season, or is random? Thanks!

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FPYCparent wrote:Just an observation or two from U14G (2008s) for the coming fall season ...

I believe NCSL usually relegates two bottom teams to the next lower division and promotes the two top non-D1 teams to the next division up.

Division 1 (Spring 2020: http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/schedules/Spring2021/99931005.html) understandably lost the top McLean 09 and BRYC 09 teams that are off to ECNL for their on-age U13 year. Those two teams were playing up last year. With two teams already gone, perhaps there was no need to relegate any team based on the spring results.

LMVSC Red is also gone, even though there is a "LMVSC Patriots 2008 NCSL" team listed down in D3 for the fall. ARL Blue is gone, but I'll address that in a moment.

The four "new" teams (by name, at least) to the division are Arlington White, Loudoun Black, McLean White, and SYC Blue. Arlington Blue was D1 during the spring, so they were either renamed to White, or they truly got bumped down to D2 (there is an ARL Blue listed there) with White coming over from CCL2. Loudoun Black has come over from CCL2. McLean White got promoted to D1 from D2.

As far as I know, SYC did not field three teams last season. SYC Blue (now Academy?) played in CCL1 and EDP last season. SYC White was due to be promoted from D2 to D1. Anyone know if SYC White was just renamed as SYC Blue (or Orange, for that matter)? SYC Orange is listed in D2 for the fall, with no other SYC teams listed at U14 (or U15, for that matter).

To address the previous reply, there is still a BRYC Elite Academy Black listed in D1 for the fall. I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't be the same team that was there in the spring.

Most if not all of the "Black" and "Silver" teams are BRYC bridge teams. Using U10G as an example for Fall (meaning they were U9G in the Spring, when there were two academy teams and one bridge team), the academy has enough players for the Fall to field 3 academy teams but at the moment in U10G there is only Teal (which is an Academy team) and Black (which is a Bridge team). There are no other teams listed--it's very odd... not even a second academy team. I wonder if it is a signal BRYC is moving into some other leagues and/or if some of those U10G will be forced to play up.

This info is different for the older teams (U11 and older). There is BRYC Elite and then Black, Silver, and Teal are Bridge teams. Their colors are the order in which they joined NCSL - it is not necessarily a hierarchy of how strong the teams are relative to each other like at other clubs. And, for U11G, there is no BRYC Elite team -- they only have bridge teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the listing in each division based on each teams "ranking" going in to the season, or is random? Thanks!

It is random.

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Full schedules are now posted. http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/schedules-and-results

[Anonymous]

Just wondering, are other people's teams further away than usual? This is our situation, but betting that it is just a fluke/bad luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, are other people's teams further away than usual? This is our situation, but betting that it is just a fluke/bad luck.

Our schedule seems to be typical, in terms of travel distances etc. I've heard that as the kids get older, NCSL tries to group them for parity, so as your kids get older you might find your team playing a different mix of opponents, who may be closer or farther away.