Reply to National 1 League?

Forum Index » Soccer

Reply to "National 1 League? - what is it?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Level below ECNL RL (see link).

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSa4f_4kVmC/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=c6b88b7f-335c-4188-86ac-756c19f9e512

It's team based not club based, so top teams in each age group will make a playoff next summer combined with mid-level RL teams that don't make the RL playoffs.

No promotion to RL based on performance since that is based on club overall performance (U13-U19). But then in 2027-2028, top teams would compete against each other in a "National" tier.[/quote]

But the 'National' tier would still be below RL. [/quote]
Yes[/quote]

It depends who you ask - there's definitely a believe amongst some clubs that N1 will sit next to RL especially in some regions like the North East where you have some vast disparity between good RL teams and bad ones.  Like when you have multiple teams that win 0 games in RL brackets.  Most of the clubs looking at N1 by us are not happy to have to play in playoff structures with low level RL teams but if you don't have strong teams across 6 age groups (which with the MLSN expansion is pretty tough now), you don't really have much of a choice now.  [/quote]

The reality is that if your club can come out and finish top of table in all six age groups in your region, then that club will get an offer to move to RL.  Thus RL would consume the top clubs in N1. 
My experience is on the girls side, and N1 will be below RL there easily. But good point with two levels of MLS and two Levels of ECNL on boys side, I could see a lot of N1 teams beign better than RL and MLS Academy teams.[/quote]

There is going to be no incentive to stay on a good N1 team that can beat ECNL RL teams, if they will never get moved up to RL because the other teams at their club are not strong enough. Why not just move to an RL team if you're a good enough player? At least in this area where we have lots of options. The N1 thing makes more sense in a rural area where the only ECNL RL clubs are too far away. Then you at least get a chance to play against them at the end of the season. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics