Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 15:33     Subject: MLSN tier 2
I was rooting for MLS JV.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 15:31     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:Its going to be called 'Academy Division' btw, as much as i prefer mlsn2


what a dumb name that communicates no information.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 14:57     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Its going to be called 'Academy Division' btw, as much as i prefer mlsn2
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 07:58     Subject: Re:MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That’s not what that means. Clubs like Bethesda have MLSN, MLSN2, and NAL. That means NAL is still what was once ECNL. It’s Bethesda’s A3.


What league did their top teams play in this past year?


Last years Bethesda’s u13 played MLSN and NAL. This year they have a team in MLSN, moved a good amount of their NAL team up to MLSN2, and left some of those kids and a new cohort added to form their NAL team so effectively their 3rd string.


Show us on the Bethesda website where they have at U13 and older, MLS Next, MLS Next 2 and NAL as 3 separate teams
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 16:09     Subject: Re:MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That’s not what that means. Clubs like Bethesda have MLSN, MLSN2, and NAL. That means NAL is still what was once ECNL. It’s Bethesda’s A3.


What league did their top teams play in this past year?


Last years Bethesda’s u13 played MLSN and NAL. This year they have a team in MLSN, moved a good amount of their NAL team up to MLSN2, and left some of those kids and a new cohort added to form their NAL team so effectively their 3rd string.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 09:57     Subject: Re:MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:That’s not what that means. Clubs like Bethesda have MLSN, MLSN2, and NAL. That means NAL is still what was once ECNL. It’s Bethesda’s A3.


Maybe you should inform BSC that you have created their new teams tier system
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 09:02     Subject: Re:MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:That’s not what that means. Clubs like Bethesda have MLSN, MLSN2, and NAL. That means NAL is still what was once ECNL. It’s Bethesda’s A3.


What league did their top teams play in this past year?
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 09:01     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:MLS part 2 is the same level of players as ECNL-RL, at least among the teenagers we know.


Clubs like Bethesda had ECNL for their boys 2nd team
ECNL didn't like that they were 2nd fiddle to MLS Next
They told all MLS Next clubs they can't have ECNL as 2nd team
Clubs switched 2nd teams to NAL and other leagues around the country

That means the former original ecnl team is now the MLS Next 2 team


Among the kids we know (3 tween/teen boys), the kids who played ECRL last year made MLS B teams. Some stayed, some switched.
Some clubs whose top team was ECRL-switched that top team to MLS B Teams. Some clubs stuck with ECRL. Its the same players, its the same level, just different labels.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 08:58     Subject: Re:MLSN tier 2
That’s not what that means. Clubs like Bethesda have MLSN, MLSN2, and NAL. That means NAL is still what was once ECNL. It’s Bethesda’s A3.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 08:51     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:MLS part 2 is the same level of players as ECNL-RL, at least among the teenagers we know.


Clubs like Bethesda had ECNL for their boys 2nd team
ECNL didn't like that they were 2nd fiddle to MLS Next
They told all MLS Next clubs they can't have ECNL as 2nd team
Clubs switched 2nd teams to NAL and other leagues around the country

That means the former original ecnl team is now the MLS Next 2 team
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 08:45     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:Clubs that previously had NAL and MLSN are adding MLSN2 as tier two. That makes NAL tier three. There are some weaker clubs that were just given NAL and MLSN2 pathways and at those clubs NAL may be top or 2 may be top but that’s only because they don’t have the highest tier available to them yet. The correct order is still. MLSN, MLSN2, NAL. ECNL is below those and that places ECRL at the bottom and EDP below it still with MSI and SAM below those and whatever the rec and travel options are in VA.
You don’t like it? Ya can’t change it.
At some clubs NAL is top but in reality it is third.
A ton of new clubs got NAL and MLSN2 but that’s only because ECNL has made it too high of a barrier to entry and MLSN is obsessed with obliterating them and this is how they’re going to do .
You don’t like it? You still can’t change it!!!


Nonsense

The NAL teams are the 2nd teams at clubs with MLS Next
They will be the MLS Next 2 teams and administered by NAL

It's written right there on the MLS Next press release
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 08:19     Subject: MLSN tier 2
We had two kids leave my son's RL team to go play for a club 40+ minutes away on the team below that club's MLSN B team (this club does not have an A team), that was a strange choice to me as that second team they joined usually lost to our club's B (NCSL) team.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 08:15     Subject: MLSN tier 2
Anonymous wrote:MLS part 2 is the same level of players as ECNL-RL, at least among the teenagers we know.


In northern VA, this is accurate. And kids going to play on the new MLS next teams are very even with kids sticking with ECNL.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 07:52     Subject: MLSN tier 2
MLS part 2 is the same level of players as ECNL-RL, at least among the teenagers we know.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 01:03     Subject: MLSN tier 2
EDP usually releases its schedule in late August.
I wonder when MLSN2 will?
Did MLSN previously release in July?
We are seeing lots of clubs that say they have their MLSN2 schedules already.

We have heard NOTHING from Bethesda. Our coach in previous years at Bethesda had already gotten in touch with us at this point and had a plan in place. This year: CRICKETS. Crickets from the coach!! Bubkiss, zilch, zippo. Lame!