Can you play down a year?

[Anonymous]

DD’s friend left her former team and is not currently playing. Her club doesn’t have her age group and she’s wondering if she could play down?

Can an 05 play with 06 team? Is there a waiver or mechanism? I don’t see anything on the NCSL website so I assume no?

[Anonymous]

Never heard of this being allowed. No way to apply fairly and equitably, and defeats the point of the age cutoffs.

[Anonymous]

No, not allowed, but she can play up a year with the 04s.

[Anonymous]

No and go find a rec team or Suburban Friendship League instead, please.

[Anonymous]

No, that's the entire point of the age brackets. Rec or play up.

[Anonymous]

The DA allowed smaller players to play down an age group. However, DA no longer exists and I don’t know of another league that allows it.

[Anonymous]

Go to Team America FC they are notorious for playing down.

[Anonymous]

If a GK maybe but unlikely. Why not just got to a club with an 05 age group?

[Anonymous]

you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

says the newbie ^^^^. Its done all the time in youth soccer especially with the English isn't your first language teams. My son has played against some 14 yr olds in the u12 league last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

says the newbie ^^^^. Its done all the time in youth soccer especially with the English isn't your first language teams. My son has played against some 14 yr olds in the u12 league last year.

Certain clubs cheat like hell, most clubs wouldn’t accommodate a player wanting to do it though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

says the newbie ^^^^. Its done all the time in youth soccer especially with the English isn't your first language teams. My son has played against some 14 yr olds in the u12 league last year.

Certain clubs cheat like hell, most clubs wouldn’t accommodate a player wanting to do it though

I started refereeing 4 years ago. I thought there were so many clubs that had illegal players. Whenever I "check in" certain teams, I look much harder than usual. I just want to say that I have NEVER found an illegal player and I have refereed the usual suspect clubs many times. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't caught it at least and neither have others referees that I closer with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

I guess using a PDF editing program you can simply change a digit on the year and done. Is there a way for the club of VYSA to get notified of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have to have a player card with a birthday. Unless you forge a birth certificate, you can't get a player card that would work for playing a year down

I guess using a PDF editing program you can simply change a digit on the year and done. Is there a way for the club of VYSA to get notified of this?

Nope. My son has been paying down a year for a while now. It was the easiest thing in the world to edit his birth certificate. We just had to switch clubs the year we did it, and make sure we were playing in a different league.

It's been a great experience for us as a afmily, watching him dominate. I recommend it.

[Anonymous]

To the OP, your son can play down a year once he's an adult and old enough for the masters leagues.