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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

England does school year, not Europe

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:England is SY and haven't won a major competition since Henry the 8th 🤔

And we’ve had both BY and SY with no success at either. This change back to SY isn’t going to improve soccer in the US as much as it is going to correct problems created by the switch to BY less than 10 years ago. As far as improving soccer in the US, that would be a lengthy discussion…

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

England does school year, not Europe

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.

England is SY and haven't won a major competition since Henry the 8th 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

England does school year, not Europe

MLSN has said nothing publicly nor sent out any communication that has leaked - which it would.

Everyone's guess is good as to which way they will jump. For us it's one parameter among many in what we'll do next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

It was a Jurgen Klinsmann idea so the advantages of RAE would go to the Jan-March players which would also but the oldest potential players for the youth national teams because those have always been BY.

England uses 9/1, most other European academies use BY. None of that really impacts US Soccer.

Finally, they aren’t thinking about changing it, they are changing it for all of youth soccer. Still waiting on an announcement from mlsn. Youth national teams will stay BY.

Was there an announcement that USYNT will stay BY or is that just assumed?

All FIFA events are BY so they don’t have a choice. This is the only time aligning with international standards matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

It was a Jurgen Klinsmann idea so the advantages of RAE would go to the Jan-March players which would also but the oldest potential players for the youth national teams because those have always been BY.

England uses 9/1, most other European academies use BY. None of that really impacts US Soccer.

Finally, they aren’t thinking about changing it, they are changing it for all of youth soccer. Still waiting on an announcement from mlsn. Youth national teams will stay BY.

Was there an announcement that USYNT will stay BY or is that just assumed?

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

It was a Jurgen Klinsmann idea so the advantages of RAE would go to the Jan-March players which would also but the oldest potential players for the youth national teams because those have always been BY.

England uses 9/1, most other European academies use BY. None of that really impacts US Soccer.

Finally, they aren’t thinking about changing it, they are changing it for all of youth soccer. Still waiting on an announcement from mlsn. Youth national teams will stay BY.

One of the kids on my youngest player's team is from France and I remember his father telling me that in France the kids are sorted by school grade-level as well. I don't know but that's what he said.

Given that there has to be some cutoff somewhere, it would make sense to use the same cutoff for school and sports -- not sure why it would be different (especially since there are also school sports going on) ... we obviously don't use calendar year to as the cutoff for school (whether we should or not is another question, but we don't), so it doesn't make sense to have a completely different cutoff off for sports that splits up kids from the same grade into different levels for club sports (but not for school sports).

Make it make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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.

It was a Jurgen Klinsmann idea so the advantages of RAE would go to the Jan-March players which would also but the oldest potential players for the youth national teams because those have always been BY.

England uses 9/1, most other European academies use BY. None of that really impacts US Soccer.

Finally, they aren’t thinking about changing it, they are changing it for all of youth soccer. Still waiting on an announcement from mlsn. Youth national teams will stay BY.

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

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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Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

This poor bot is misguided

But just crazy enough to be correct. We heard the same about 27/28 but nothing official, just rumors. Do you have a source?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

This poor bot is misguided

Anonymous wrote:Any updates for the 26-27 season?

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.

Any updates for the 26-27 season?