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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be nice if the leagues or whatever started to announce plans. Perhaps they are waiting for ECNL playoffs to finish so news end of this month? I think we all just want to know definitively at this point. That would be crazy if a league adopts 8/1 and 9/1 and decides based on state. People are dumb, look at half of the people confused on this thread, so i dont hate on the calculator. But it is just getting annoying that little information has been announced. Rip the bandaid off so we can all move forward.[/quote]

All US Club Soccer leagues (including ECNL) are mandated to use the (old) 8/1 to 7/31 registration system for the 26/27 year.  This isn't confusing. 
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Currently all US Club soccer leagues (including ECNL) are mandated to use a birth year 1/1 to 12/31 registration system. Yet ECNL has their own league rule that allows trapped eight grade players to play down with the next age group in the spring.  Hmm - wonder if they could do something in 26/27 outside the US Club mandate?[/quote]

Sure, and ECNL could do something outside of the US Club BY mandate in 25/26.   You just never know - until the league rules are published.[/quote]

The current year is still happening right? Shockingly, they'll probably post updates after this season concludes.[/quote]Just a lame duck exhibition year. Good year for Aug-Dec kids to skip the season and grab a team next spring. Then they won't have to repeat an age group. And they can try another sport next year. Was a complete bungle to frag this out another year.[/quote]

I have a Q4 kid and I wish it was simply done this year.  My kid knows there's a change next year and don't know where he'll end up playing next year.  I'm expecting mass movement.  So, should have just made a decision and made the change right away.  All the kids on teams for the upcoming year know next year, the make up of their teams will be different.  So this does feel like a wasted year we're all paying for this sport.[/quote]

There's always a fair amount of turnover on teams. Yes, there'll be more this upcoming season, but you're really overblowing it. The only ones who deserve SOME consideration are the 8th-grade trapped players this season. Too many others thinking can't wait because they think this will give their kid an edge. You want an edge? Have them work their butt off. The shift will provide opportunities, but if you're kid isn't focusing and working hard, they won't be able to take advantage.[/quote]
My kid is a Sept birthday on a top national team. She's working hard and getting even better at a higher level. If she chooses to play down for SY its going to be scary. I have a feeling that theres going to be a lot of players like this.[/quote]

Again for the 100x time - It's not "playing down" and if she's at a "top" club, they're probably going to want to align the age groups from the start so there's not much of a choice.[/quote]
 No its playing down. You just want to feel better about your kid playing down against younger players.

Go cry 😢 [/quote]

As of fall 26, it's not playing down. It's on age - move on![/quote]

Don’t try and reason with the BY people they are so upset their kid has to play and compete with older kids now and it bothers them.

That’s why they can’t grasp there’s no rule on the girls side that allows for playing down theirs only playing your age group or playing up.

MLSN is the only league that allows boys to play down beyond the year calendar.[/quote]

I replied to that person and provided the development  Leo / Aitana analogy.

I have a DD in ECNL, high level team, plays up a couple of years. I am a club owner for a girls GA clubs. And I’m pro-SY even tho my DD is Q2, because of the trap issue that affects some folks (which is typically a club and parent problem, not a YS problem, but relief comes from the change). Not everyone that has a non “SY is sacred and 4th team Q4 kids now rule the roost” perspective is BY.

YS development is complex. And people that are so obtuse binary, like you seem to be, are a big part of the problem.[/quote]

Plays up "a couple years?" as in she's playing up several age groups or has been asked to play up a couple different years. Vastly different scenarios and it honestly sounds like you are full of crap. Feel free to provide more details, but I'm sure you won't.

Point still stands - most ECNL girls will be playing under the new age guidelines starting fall 2026. Not playing "up" or "down". It's just the new baseline.[/quote]

She plays up 2 age groups, on roster, not guesting. She starts. Is probably the best technically and IQ on her team. Often played against girls 3-4 years older in a variety of other environments.

(2 is “a couple” for most readers) Sorry I didn’t define “on roster” in our measuring context.[/quote]

This is impressive. I know several USYNT and USWNT members and none of them played up two years in ECNL. Only one actually played up a single year.

I am curious how “top” the team is. If Gretna more believable than surf.

Interesting you own a GA club and your DD doesn’t even play for your club.

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I noticed the "I own a GA club but my daughter plays for a different club" comment as well.

I hope people are seeing the lengths ECNL hats will go to try and create fomo. The reason they do this is because ECNL clubs want to recruit players that other clubs have developed. They dont want to develop their own talent. GA is throwing a huge monkey wrench in the gears.[/quote]

You're more ridiculous than the 2 ag up poster. They claim to also to own a GA club, so how the hell does that make them an ECNL hat?[/quote]
Who in their right mind would own a GA club but have their kid play on an ECNL team? It doesn't make sense + is an ECNL hats fever dream.[/quote]

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