Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 18:43     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see how many teams around here bend the rules and slip in some MLS HGs to play high school. It seems to happen every year where a few somehow “appear” on rosters. Lightridge High School published their roster there were quite a few MLS Next players from NVA listed. I'm sure Riverside will do the same. With NVA owning the county, their move to MLS Next removes a significant amount of players allowed to engage in HS soccer.


Lightridge coach is not going to give up his MLS players. Otherwise his season sucks


funny cause despite acting insecure like Riverside people to secure MLS next players he he just got a new one torn up by Loudoun County HS 0-3 loss at home. Who loses to a 4A bum school like that? Are these bozos truly so incompetent? Piss poor the dmv soccer scene loaded with grifters


lols is this foreal? Lightridge coach gloating about getting a letter from a US senator (begged for it) and on his first match gets exposed like a useless warm body?
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 15:12     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:The '25-'26 waiver allowed simultaneous participation in MLS Next HG and HS soccer. The '26-'27 waiver changed and does not. The clubs and high schools already know this but some have been slow to communicate the new rules. Our club (in mid-Atlantic not DC metro) already communicated that if a MLS Next HG player plans to get the waiver to play private HS soccer in the fall bc his school/scholarship requires it, he cannot be rostered for any league games until the HS season ends. The HG team will hold his spot until he can return in Nov but he can no longer play both at once. They do allow simultaneous training just not games.


Have you seen the new language in writing?
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 13:39     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:The '25-'26 waiver allowed simultaneous participation in MLS Next HG and HS soccer. The '26-'27 waiver changed and does not. The clubs and high schools already know this but some have been slow to communicate the new rules. Our club (in mid-Atlantic not DC metro) already communicated that if a MLS Next HG player plans to get the waiver to play private HS soccer in the fall bc his school/scholarship requires it, he cannot be rostered for any league games until the HS season ends. The HG team will hold his spot until he can return in Nov but he can no longer play both at once. They do allow simultaneous training just not games.


+1

This is what we’ve heard unofficially.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 13:37     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:The '25-'26 waiver allowed simultaneous participation in MLS Next HG and HS soccer. The '26-'27 waiver changed and does not. The clubs and high schools already know this but some have been slow to communicate the new rules. Our club (in mid-Atlantic not DC metro) already communicated that if a MLS Next HG player plans to get the waiver to play private HS soccer in the fall bc his school/scholarship requires it, he cannot be rostered for any league games until the HS season ends. The HG team will hold his spot until he can return in Nov but he can no longer play both at once. They do allow simultaneous training just not games.


Training with MLS Next team and HS team simultaneously is an awesome recipe for overuse injuries
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2026 13:33     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
The '25-'26 waiver allowed simultaneous participation in MLS Next HG and HS soccer. The '26-'27 waiver changed and does not. The clubs and high schools already know this but some have been slow to communicate the new rules. Our club (in mid-Atlantic not DC metro) already communicated that if a MLS Next HG player plans to get the waiver to play private HS soccer in the fall bc his school/scholarship requires it, he cannot be rostered for any league games until the HS season ends. The HG team will hold his spot until he can return in Nov but he can no longer play both at once. They do allow simultaneous training just not games.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 23:04     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see how many teams around here bend the rules and slip in some MLS HGs to play high school. It seems to happen every year where a few somehow “appear” on rosters. Lightridge High School published their roster there were quite a few MLS Next players from NVA listed. I'm sure Riverside will do the same. With NVA owning the county, their move to MLS Next removes a significant amount of players allowed to engage in HS soccer.


Lightridge coach is not going to give up his MLS players. Otherwise his season sucks


funny cause despite acting insecure like Riverside people to secure MLS next players he he just got a new one torn up by Loudoun County HS 0-3 loss at home. Who loses to a 4A bum school like that? Are these bozos truly so incompetent? Piss poor the dmv soccer scene loaded with grifters
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 19:13     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The waiver does not specify private school. It just doesn't. I for a fact know a public school player who received a waiver. The word used is "participation" and with option #3 being "other," you can drive a truck through that language.


^Exactly! Get the waiver signed! Then you don’t have to worry if you coach finds out or if anyone else tries to report you. The waiver is for the player, not anyone else.


MLS Next coaches should bench all players in public school who let HS soccer interfere


Seems fair to me, and vice versa high school coaches can do the same. What a great system we have


A MLS Next player has nothing to lose getting benched for low-quality, high injury HS soccer
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 18:53     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The waiver does not specify private school. It just doesn't. I for a fact know a public school player who received a waiver. The word used is "participation" and with option #3 being "other," you can drive a truck through that language.


^Exactly! Get the waiver signed! Then you don’t have to worry if you coach finds out or if anyone else tries to report you. The waiver is for the player, not anyone else.


MLS Next coaches should bench all players in public school who let HS soccer interfere


Seems fair to me, and vice versa high school coaches can do the same. What a great system we have
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 18:48     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:The waiver does not specify private school. It just doesn't. I for a fact know a public school player who received a waiver. The word used is "participation" and with option #3 being "other," you can drive a truck through that language.


^Exactly! Get the waiver signed! Then you don’t have to worry if you coach finds out or if anyone else tries to report you. The waiver is for the player, not anyone else.


MLS Next coaches should bench all players in public school who let HS soccer interfere
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 16:50     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
The waiver does not specify private school. It just doesn't. I for a fact know a public school player who received a waiver. The word used is "participation" and with option #3 being "other," you can drive a truck through that language.


^Exactly! Get the waiver signed! Then you don’t have to worry if you coach finds out or if anyone else tries to report you. The waiver is for the player, not anyone else.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 16:49     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with the rule, but it does seem unfair to the HS kids in MLSnext who want to play HS soccer, but also choose to follow the rules. Alexandria and NVU and SYC and all the others should be fined.


Choose to follow the rules or don't sign-up for MLS Next

The rule isn't a secret
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 16:45     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because there aren't waivers for public schools, nitwit. The only waivers are for private schools (and their season was the fall)>


If your kid transfers from a school because they are intending to play soccer at another school, and are admitted for that reason, than the waiver applies, private or public.


What in the wild world of sports is going on here

Who would choose a public school outside their district just for soccer?


Riverside HS in loudoun has kids transferring to play soccer. What you will find is a bunch of loudoun kids that are use to playing club together wanting to continuing into the spring. That's why they are consistently good. The coach also doesn't enforce the 1 year sitting rule which allows a kid to transfer, but they cannot play in that first year. It's not like football where they want to get recruited, it's just kids wanting to play together to make a run at states.


There are groups of play-date kids whos parents move them to the same public schools for low level soccer?
Is this a joke?
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 16:42     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are not allowed to transfer to a different public school just to play a sport. That may be the real reason you are doing so but you can not use that as the reason, therefore what the pp said earlier is correct. You couldn't get a waiver from mls next to play at a public school because if you said you switched for soccer the public school would not allow you to transfer.


+1. How stupid are some of you? You can't select your public school based on playing soccer. The waivers can only be used at private schools. NO PUBLIC SCHOOL MLS NEXT PLAYERS CAN PLAY HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER UNDER THE RULES.


This isn't true. You may be accurate for your county, but there are all kinds of reasons a player on a public high school soccer team might have a waiver.


There isn't. The only reason the waiver is granted is for kids whose private school attendance was conditional upon playing soccer.

Name one valid reason a public school kid could give for getting a waiver? There aren't any.


The waiver does not specify private school. It just doesn't. I for a fact know a public school player who received a waiver. The word used is "participation" and with option #3 being "other," you can drive a truck through that language.


The Private school signs the waiver so that the player doesn't lose their scholarship

Why is a public school signing the waiver?
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 14:24     Subject: MLS next ruining high school soccer
It’s a dumb rule.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 14:20     Subject: Re:MLS next ruining high school soccer
The idea that a kid who is willing to risk his status with his club to represent his school and his community deserves to be punished and turned in to his club is crazy.

The kids are members of the school community and per the HS rules are allowed to play. There is no cheating going on. (I am not commenting on or know anything about whatever the Riverside story is).