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I am a new "1999 son poster," but am I correct that my 1999 son would be a U18 in a U.S. Soccer club next year (2016-2017), but on an Academy team he would be U17 next year??    I guess it is just semantics, but seems strange and confusing....[/quote]

Development Academy teams at the older age groups are arranged in two year bands, so there' a U 18 team and a U16 team, but no U17 one.  Your son would be on the U18 team next year and the year after if they keep the current age groupings.[/quote]

Thanks.  So next year (2016-17), a 2002 would play U15 Club team and U13/U14 Academy?    [/quote]

For next year, the Development Academy is adding a U12 age group and splitting the U13/U14 age group into two separate years (http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2015/10/16/13/30/151016-academy-to-launch-u12-program-in-2016).  A 2002 will play U14 next year for DA.  On a non-DA club team, the current US Soccer charts do indicate that he would play U15, but I'm not convinced there won't be more revisions.

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Well-- what will be U-12 in the Fall???  According to their charts it's birth year 2005.  My November 2005 will still be 10 at the start of the 2016 season.

Do they mean "true' U-12' as in 11-year olds the old school way or the new mandate where U-12s can still be 2 years younger than 12?

U.S. Since needs to get their terminology consistent.[/quote]

Like I said above, I think there may be some more revisions to the age group charts before too long, or at least more of an explanation of which charts apply to which leagues. As it stands, unless they change the rules for the Development Academy age groups, it looks like birth year 2004 age kids will play U12 DA.  A talented 2005 might be invited to play up on the U12 DA team, but otherwise he'd have a shot at entering the program in the Fall of 2017.  See page 9 of the first link below, which is the rollout document US Soccer put out Oct. 16 on the U12 expansion.

If kids are not playing DA, then I guess the chart on the main US Soccer page (second link below) governs, so a 2004 would be playing U13 and a 2005 would be playing U12.  I'm not clear on why they wouldn't just have the other leagues follow the DA groupings.  Hopefully this will all be made clear at some point.

https://ussoccer.app.box.com/s/c2813mqbav1plmjtn7q66mztxeqox8vy
http://www.ussoccer.com/coaching-education/resources/2015-player-development-initiatives [/quote]

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