ECNL moving to school year part 2

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

[Anonymous]

This is posted on Alexandria’s website along with a SY age group calculator. It’s under the “academy” section. No mention of anything different for mlsn.

Beginning with the 2026–2027 season, U.S. Club Soccer and U.S. Youth Soccer are updating how player age groups are formed. Instead of using the calendar year (January–December), teams will now be organized based on birth years that run from August 1 to July 31.

This change was made after extensive review and feedback to better align players with their school-grade peers and create a more consistent player development pathway.

Alexandria Soccer will adopt this new August–July age group system starting with the 2026–2027 season. Use the calculator to determine your child’s correct age group under the updated system.

[Anonymous]

Another MLSN club. Clubs are either getting information from MLSN that SY is happening or the clubs are making their opinion public by strongarming MLSN into SY. Either way, writing seems on the wall for MLSN going SY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another MLSN club. Clubs are either getting information from MLSN that SY is happening or the clubs are making their opinion public by strongarming MLSN into SY. Either way, writing seems on the wall for MLSN going SY

Put your pom-poms down cheerboy.

MLS Pro cant go SY so we know that not all of MLS can change to SY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another MLSN club. Clubs are either getting information from MLSN that SY is happening or the clubs are making their opinion public by strongarming MLSN into SY. Either way, writing seems on the wall for MLSN going SY

Put your pom-poms down cheerboy.

MLS Pro cant go SY so we know that not all of MLS can change to SY.

MLS Pro is the second team to MLS teams, it doesn’t have an age group.

MLS Academies absolutely could go 8/1. England academies are 9/1. Doesn’t mean mls academies WILL change, but they CAN change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

To get get the correct answer, look at say Alexandria and how many MLSN teams they have compared to non-MLSN teams along with how many MLSN to non-MLSNteams have participated in their past tournaments. Then try to figure out the share of revenue that tournaments bring in for clubs like Alexandria and Bethesda to realize that they need to host tournaments.

[Anonymous]

Did SY + 30 guy get on a tournament kick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did SY + 30 guy get on a tournament kick?

He’s fighting the good fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

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The only BU tournaments will be out of US (for instance MIC).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

.

The only BU tournaments will be out of US (for instance MIC).

*BY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

.

The only BU tournaments will be out of US (for instance MIC).

If MLS was to stay BY there would be BY tournamants.

Is GA (Generation Adidas) changing to SY? Probabaly not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was posted on one of the reddit threads:


I have already commented on several posts like this as a lot of the comments here are just from uninformed parents or people reaching for things. As someone who works pretty high up in this I will explain what is going on below and why again. The main push for the move back to school year has been to align more with college recruitment and other factors as almost all of these kids aren’t going pro etc.

The decision originally was for MLSN to stay birth year and everyone else would basically go school year. MLS Pro Academies with their ties to FIFA rules, player transfers, etc cannot go school year.

However what MLSN realized after looking at what everyone else is doing is that by ECNL shifting to school year and MLSN staying birth year it puts the non pro regular MLSN clubs at a major disadvantage compared to the ECNL ones many are already competing with for players/status in their region. ECNL would have the potential to have stronger teams with school year compared to MLSN as they would essentially have older players in each age group. This is a major issue and why most non pro MLSN clubs are now pushing for school year or some sort of compromise.

So what will ultimately happen is that yes MLSN will go school year with the MLS Pro academies staying birth year and having their team essentially all compete about a year up. Many already have players in various age groups doing this anyway so it won’t really change much for them and possibly makes games more competitive etc. it also fits the non pro MLSN clubs as at the end of the day especially at the older age groups none of these kids will essentially be professional players and will all go to college.

When MLSN Academy plays up this season and gets destroyed by the older P2P team, which makes the only selling point of P2P MLSN pointless. You can already guess that P2P MLSN will almost certainly go to SY.

Nope, what will happen is if MLS stays BY MLS clubs will host their own BY tournaments and not participate in SY tournaments. ECNL and other SY leagues will be invited to atrend but they'll need to play against BY teams that are 6 months older.

Least likely thing to happen that was every said on this forum

More like this is the thing that scares ECNL hats the most.

MLSN P2P staying BY would be a big gift to ECNL. And the random tournaments at clubs will be SY any way as they are trying to attack teams so the can make their payroll for the year.

Nope, all the MLS clubs would participate in BY tournaments and would not participate in SY tournaments.

The "big gift" would be to MLS clubs that were able to host all the MLS clubs.

.

The only BU tournaments will be out of US (for instance MIC).

If MLS was to stay BY there would be BY tournamants.

Is GA (Generation Adidas) changing to SY? Probabaly not.

.

Ok, you are right, but only international tournaments inside the US, like Generation Adidas.