ECNL moving to school year part 2

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Anonymous wrote:The new soccer age range in Aug. 1 - July 31. There is no mention of grade. If you have an Aug birthday, congrats! You're the new January kid and will benefit accordingly. Top teams are not going to care what grade their players are in, nor are the scouts. But keep telling yourself whatever you want, it's not going to change anything. Some Aug players will choose to find teams that are in the older age range to match their grade, but a lot will also choose to stay in their age range (regardless of grade). Life goes on.

This is not true when college recruiting is taken into account.

You keep repeating a lie.

College coaches said they don't care about your age or age group. They recruit foreign kids that don't cleanly compare our age groups who are often older, kids from bad youth teams and transfers. They have this recruiting thing down to evaluate talent regardless of who plays on your left or right or what their age is.

College coaches recruit by graduation year (grade in school) not age.

Playing on a grade down team in club makes the youngest players in their grade even less appealing.When compared to everyone else their grade

The age you enter college is immaterial of the age group you played as a youngster. College coaches just don't care your age, they just need you eligible, said college coaches. Not sure why it means so much to you without as you stated actually being a parent to an August child.

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Anonymous wrote:The new soccer age range in Aug. 1 - July 31. There is no mention of grade. If you have an Aug birthday, congrats! You're the new January kid and will benefit accordingly. Top teams are not going to care what grade their players are in, nor are the scouts. But keep telling yourself whatever you want, it's not going to change anything. Some Aug players will choose to find teams that are in the older age range to match their grade, but a lot will also choose to stay in their age range (regardless of grade). Life goes on.

This is not true when college recruiting is taken into account.

You keep repeating a lie.

College coaches said they don't care about your age or age group. They recruit foreign kids that don't cleanly compare our age groups who are often older, kids from bad youth teams and transfers. They have this recruiting thing down to evaluate talent regardless of who plays on your left or right or what their age is.

College coaches recruit by graduation year (grade in school) not age.

Playing on a grade down team in club makes the youngest players in their grade even less appealing.When compared to everyone else their grade

The age you enter college is immaterial of the age group you played as a youngster. College coaches just don't care your age, they just need you eligible, said college coaches. Not sure why it means so much to you without as you stated actually being a parent to an August child.

Sorry you're not going to convince people that college coaches don't care about the level players are playing at. They do and it makes a difference for recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Tournaments this spring will be allowed to goto seasonal year teams.

[Anonymous]

In alliance with US Club Soccer, Club América Cup is using a school year cut-off structure instead of birth years. Learn more about the change.

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Anonymous wrote:The new soccer age range in Aug. 1 - July 31. There is no mention of grade. If you have an Aug birthday, congrats! You're the new January kid and will benefit accordingly. Top teams are not going to care what grade their players are in, nor are the scouts. But keep telling yourself whatever you want, it's not going to change anything. Some Aug players will choose to find teams that are in the older age range to match their grade, but a lot will also choose to stay in their age range (regardless of grade). Life goes on.

This is not true when college recruiting is taken into account.

You keep repeating a lie.

College coaches said they don't care about your age or age group. They recruit foreign kids that don't cleanly compare our age groups who are often older, kids from bad youth teams and transfers. They have this recruiting thing down to evaluate talent regardless of who plays on your left or right or what their age is.

College coaches recruit by graduation year (grade in school) not age.

Playing on a grade down team in club makes the youngest players in their grade even less appealing.When compared to everyone else their grade

The age you enter college is immaterial of the age group you played as a youngster. College coaches just don't care your age, they just need you eligible, said college coaches. Not sure why it means so much to you without as you stated actually being a parent to an August child.

Sorry you're not going to convince people that college coaches don't care about the level players are playing at. They do and it makes a difference for recruiting.

Perpetuating an inaccurate perspective doesn't make it more truth but to the user it becomes their false reality. You have not offered proof of your position so it unfortunately can not be considered accurate at this juncture. Please true again later with evidence of your statement

Coaches need to know when you can matriculate but don't care about your youth age group. Be best.

https://www.eastsidefc.or.../agegroups

"The new two-year age group structure will not negatively impact college recruiting. College coaches evaluate players based on their performance, development, and potential—not the exact age grouping of their club team."

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Anonymous wrote:The new soccer age range in Aug. 1 - July 31. There is no mention of grade. If you have an Aug birthday, congrats! You're the new January kid and will benefit accordingly. Top teams are not going to care what grade their players are in, nor are the scouts. But keep telling yourself whatever you want, it's not going to change anything. Some Aug players will choose to find teams that are in the older age range to match their grade, but a lot will also choose to stay in their age range (regardless of grade). Life goes on.

This is not true when college recruiting is taken into account.

You keep repeating a lie.

College coaches said they don't care about your age or age group. They recruit foreign kids that don't cleanly compare our age groups who are often older, kids from bad youth teams and transfers. They have this recruiting thing down to evaluate talent regardless of who plays on your left or right or what their age is.

College coaches recruit by graduation year (grade in school) not age.

Playing on a grade down team in club makes the youngest players in their grade even less appealing.When compared to everyone else their grade

The age you enter college is immaterial of the age group you played as a youngster. College coaches just don't care your age, they just need you eligible, said college coaches. Not sure why it means so much to you without as you stated actually being a parent to an August child.

Sorry you're not going to convince people that college coaches don't care about the level players are playing at. They do and it makes a difference for recruiting.

Perpetuating an inaccurate perspective doesn't make it more truth but to the user it becomes their false reality. You have not offered proof of your position so it unfortunately can not be considered accurate at this juncture. Please true again later with evidence of your statement

Coaches need to know when you can matriculate but don't care about your youth age group. Be best.

https://www.eastsidefc.or.../agegroups

"The new two-year age group structure will not negatively impact college recruiting. College coaches evaluate players based on their performance, development, and potential—not the exact age grouping of their club team."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Explain this to me in simple terms please!

Jan. 13, 2026

US Club Soccer members:

I’m writing to share important and exciting news in US Club Soccer’s history. Effective today, the management agreements with US Club Soccer previously held by a subsidiary of Wasserman have been assigned to U.S. Soccer. The result is US Club Soccer, while still a National Association member of U.S. Soccer, is now also joining the newly formed “Soccer Services” division of the Federation, operating with the same autonomy we’ve had for 25 years but with a greater level of support and resources. If you haven’t already read the press release, you may do so here.

Sounds like they save some cash not having to mange/spend on the backend work through economies of scale. Also, seems to more closely align them with US Soccer that could bring advantages with their battle with MLSN/GA -- although the release says US Soccer is offering to do these tasks for those groups, too.

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Anonymous wrote:The new soccer age range in Aug. 1 - July 31. There is no mention of grade. If you have an Aug birthday, congrats! You're the new January kid and will benefit accordingly. Top teams are not going to care what grade their players are in, nor are the scouts. But keep telling yourself whatever you want, it's not going to change anything. Some Aug players will choose to find teams that are in the older age range to match their grade, but a lot will also choose to stay in their age range (regardless of grade). Life goes on.

This is not true when college recruiting is taken into account.

You keep repeating a lie.

College coaches said they don't care about your age or age group. They recruit foreign kids that don't cleanly compare our age groups who are often older, kids from bad youth teams and transfers. They have this recruiting thing down to evaluate talent regardless of who plays on your left or right or what their age is.

College coaches recruit by graduation year (grade in school) not age.

Playing on a grade down team in club makes the youngest players in their grade even less appealing.When compared to everyone else their grade

The age you enter college is immaterial of the age group you played as a youngster. College coaches just don't care your age, they just need you eligible, said college coaches. Not sure why it means so much to you without as you stated actually being a parent to an August child.

Sorry you're not going to convince people that college coaches don't care about the level players are playing at. They do and it makes a difference for recruiting.

Perpetuating an inaccurate perspective doesn't make it more truth but to the user it becomes their false reality. You have not offered proof of your position so it unfortunately can not be considered accurate at this juncture. Please true again later with evidence of your statement

Coaches need to know when you can matriculate but don't care about your youth age group. Be best.

https://www.eastsidefc.or.../agegroups

"The new two-year age group structure will not negatively impact college recruiting. College coaches evaluate players based on their performance, development, and potential—not the exact age grouping of their club team."

2 clubs, Eastside and FC Copa public announcements vs anon poster trying to bulldoze kids in higher grades of his daughter's team

Reasonable people would take the clubs.

[Anonymous]

The only thing that deserves to be bulldozed is any more of the same tired back-and-forth about Aug-Sept bdays on this thread!

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing that deserves to be bulldozed is any more of the same tired back-and-forth about Aug-Sept bdays on this thread!

Yes, so tired of this. Just talk to your specific club or try out for one that aligns with your thought

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Anonymous wrote:No way. They will gladly take the August kid on the SY A team if they are good enough to make it. Clubs care about winning far more than grade alignment.

Not when it causes drama and issues for the club.

Allowing kids to play up in bulk numbers is the drama leagues and clubs are avoiding at all costs.

That makes no sense

It does if you run a club. Many parents don't get it for sure, they think their DC deserves special treatment, that's the drama, that's the problem.

Kids wanting to play on teams.with other kids in their grade in school is normal. The fact that you cant see that is problematic.

It's also normal for kids to play with different grades, now in BY and before in SY, especially in travel when you typically don't play with actual classmates. Both should happen where appropriate.

No, playing on teams with players that are all a grade younger than your kid is not normal. In fact the entire switch back from BY to SY was done to allow more players to play on teams with other kids in their grade.

Why would kids who are grouped by birth year/month need to be pushed into manufactured school grade groupings when school has nothing to do with travel soccer?

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Anonymous wrote:No way. They will gladly take the August kid on the SY A team if they are good enough to make it. Clubs care about winning far more than grade alignment.

Not when it causes drama and issues for the club.

Allowing kids to play up in bulk numbers is the drama leagues and clubs are avoiding at all costs.

That makes no sense

It does if you run a club. Many parents don't get it for sure, they think their DC deserves special treatment, that's the drama, that's the problem.

Kids wanting to play on teams.with other kids in their grade in school is normal. The fact that you cant see that is problematic.

It's also normal for kids to play with different grades, now in BY and before in SY, especially in travel when you typically don't play with actual classmates. Both should happen where appropriate.

No, playing on teams with players that are all a grade younger than your kid is not normal. In fact the entire switch back from BY to SY was done to allow more players to play on teams with other kids in their grade.

You want August players to compete against kids 13 months older because the school system doesn't have a standard cutoff date?

If my kid was an August birthday, yes I'd want them on a team with other players grade in school.

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If my kid was an August birthday, yes I'd want them on a team with other players their grade in school.

Which travel team in the dmv have kids that all go to the same school?

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Anonymous wrote:No way. They will gladly take the August kid on the SY A team if they are good enough to make it. Clubs care about winning far more than grade alignment.

Not when it causes drama and issues for the club.

Allowing kids to play up in bulk numbers is the drama leagues and clubs are avoiding at all costs.

That makes no sense

It does if you run a club. Many parents don't get it for sure, they think their DC deserves special treatment, that's the drama, that's the problem.

Kids wanting to play on teams.with other kids in their grade in school is normal. The fact that you cant see that is problematic.

It's also normal for kids to play with different grades, now in BY and before in SY, especially in travel when you typically don't play with actual classmates. Both should happen where appropriate.

No, playing on teams with players that are all a grade younger than your kid is not normal. In fact the entire switch back from BY to SY was done to allow more players to play on teams with other kids in their grade.

You want August players to compete against kids 13 months older because the school system doesn't have a standard cutoff date?

If my kid was an August birthday, yes I'd want them on a team with other players grade in school.

It's the "if" part that matters. Without an August kid, you don't get a vote on what any August kids does. Travel is 8/1 - 7/31. Thems the rules.

Nomsense I have just as valid of an opinion as any else. I also don't want grade older players on my kids team.

Grade is higher or lower, not older or younger

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Anonymous wrote:No way. They will gladly take the August kid on the SY A team if they are good enough to make it. Clubs care about winning far more than grade alignment.

Not when it causes drama and issues for the club.

Allowing kids to play up in bulk numbers is the drama leagues and clubs are avoiding at all costs.

That makes no sense

It does if you run a club. Many parents don't get it for sure, they think their DC deserves special treatment, that's the drama, that's the problem.

Kids wanting to play on teams.with other kids in their grade in school is normal. The fact that you cant see that is problematic.

It's also normal for kids to play with different grades, now in BY and before in SY, especially in travel when you typically don't play with actual classmates. Both should happen where appropriate.

No, playing on teams with players that are all a grade younger than your kid is not normal. In fact the entire switch back from BY to SY was done to allow more players to play on teams with other kids in their grade.

Why would kids who are grouped by birth year/month need to be pushed into manufactured school grade groupings when school has nothing to do with travel soccer?

Because College Coaches recruit by graduating year or grade in school.

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Anonymous wrote:No way. They will gladly take the August kid on the SY A team if they are good enough to make it. Clubs care about winning far more than grade alignment.

Not when it causes drama and issues for the club.

Allowing kids to play up in bulk numbers is the drama leagues and clubs are avoiding at all costs.

That makes no sense

It does if you run a club. Many parents don't get it for sure, they think their DC deserves special treatment, that's the drama, that's the problem.

Kids wanting to play on teams.with other kids in their grade in school is normal. The fact that you cant see that is problematic.

It's also normal for kids to play with different grades, now in BY and before in SY, especially in travel when you typically don't play with actual classmates. Both should happen where appropriate.

No, playing on teams with players that are all a grade younger than your kid is not normal. In fact the entire switch back from BY to SY was done to allow more players to play on teams with other kids in their grade.

Why would kids who are grouped by birth year/month need to be pushed into manufactured school grade groupings when school has nothing to do with travel soccer?

Because College Coaches recruit by graduating year or grade in school.

That's the concern. If anyone is worried, you should ask your club and/or college contacts. Don't listen to the numbskulls here -- you'll get rants on why it's a big deal or little deal or no deal.