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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any updates for the 26-27 season?[/quote]

I think you missed the announcement, they will shift to a new age-bracket for the 27-28 season.  It won't be a school year bracket, it will be a new 12 month window (1-August to 31-July).  That grouping does not line-up with most school years at all.

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It's amazing how much discussion happens over stuff like this. There's always going to be a cutoff date. I remember years ago when the switch to calendar year happened, my kids' teams all got broken up and they were no longer playing with many of their peers from school. It was very disruptive. Now they are thinking about changing it again? Sheesh! Why did they change it in the first place?

Apparently, most European football youth academies use school-age grouping with a cutoff of September 1st. I think that used to be what we did before they changed it all several years ago. Pointless tinkering rather than addressing any real challenges.

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England does school year, not Europe [/quote]
Thank you for clarifying this. The SY proponents like to paint with a wide brush implying certain things. In this case that Europe is all SY when in reality its only England. Everyone else is BY

The irony of England being SY is that top EPL Acadamies buy players from other clubs that most of the time are BY. [/quote]

Most of Europe groups grade by BY so by grouping soccer ages by BY it also aligns with grade. England groups grade by 9/1 so also groups soccer by 9/1.

There is nothing magic about an age range. Good development can occur with ages that are 1/1 or 8/1 or 9/1.  [/quote]
I agree about nothing magic with the different groupings. When you get to the highest pro levels players could have been born on the moon and it wouldn't have mattered. They have some kind of freak of nature talent thats is just beyond everyone else. [/quote]

Q1 tend to have the most success. In Spain that’s Jan-march and in England that’s sept-nov. of course there are exceptions like the freak of nature talent that could have been born at the end of Q4 and would still be successful. [/quote]

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