ECNL wants to switch back to school year from birth year

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Yes I really do think that they would absorb all GA teams in the US. It’s about money end of the day. If a club has gone through the GA application process and accepted and up and running a program for a year then ECNL would considered those clubs vetted.

24+ teams in New England, no way all of them would make it in ecnl. Oakwood? Lol

[Guest]

24+ teams in New England, no way all of them would make it in ecnl. Oakwood? Lol

ECNL is going to get bigger and bigger crating a monopoly as well as tiers within its program. Already has ECNL, ECRL1, ECRL2, why not ECRL-GA. Anything possible in America. We are a capitalist country.

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Back to the original post can someone break it down like I am a kindergartener? This is actually really pertinent to my son and several of his teammates. So a player is

1. An October 2008
2. Just completed freshman year at public school and is transferring to private and repeating (as is 75% of incoming class)
3. His current 2008 ECNL team is mostly sophomores some freshman
4. So in fall 2024 he will be a freshman on a team with mostly juniors
5. If in fall 2025 they switch to July 1 does that mean he will drop down to what is now the current 2009 team and be the oldest on what is currently a 2009 ECNL team?

Yes, your son would move down to the next age group. But, that team will look different, too, as its current younger players (Aug-Dec birthdays) will also move down to the next team. And so on and so on.

The change, though, will in no way be affected by what happens at his school.

[Guest]

Provide the source for the original post. You all being trolled.

[Guest]

Provide the source for the original post. You all being trolled.

ECNL podcast from a few weeks ago. The league was actually talking about this pre-covid (a coach at my kid’s ECNL club had mentioned it to me at the time). ECNL caters to college coaches, so even just for that reason, it makes sense. My kid will be done with ECNL by the time it potentially changes.

[Guest]

Provide the source for the original post. You all being trolled.

Right here at the 24:15 mark: https://youtu.be/djiAyjO5gBo?si=PINsZ3VvYv4qWk0u&t=1455

[Guest]

If you are ECNL, why go through all this trouble of spending so much time and three consecutive podcasts on this issue? It seems to me they are laying the groundwork for an impending announcement for the changes to take place. I fully except this to happen for the 2025/2026 season.

[Guest]

If you are ECNL, why go through all this trouble of spending so much time and three consecutive podcasts on this issue? It seems to me they are laying the groundwork for an impending announcement for the changes to take place. I fully except this to happen for the 2025/2026 season.

I think they are just trying to make people more aware of the issue to put pressure on USsoccer. Don't they have to follow USsoccer on this?

[Guest]

If you are ECNL, why go through all this trouble of spending so much time and three consecutive podcasts on this issue? It seems to me they are laying the groundwork for an impending announcement for the changes to take place. I fully except this to happen for the 2025/2026 season.

Interesting. So players who are planning to practice with teams in the spring they are interested in should look for the year younger if they are born in the fall. Ie a November 2011 player looking to tryout for Stars next spring should practice with the 2012s in the spring?

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Interesting. So players who are planning to practice with teams in the spring they are interested in should look for the year younger if they are born in the fall. Ie a November 2011 player looking to tryout for Stars next spring should practice with the 2012s in the spring?

Your kid is they are fall 2011 should keep on training with 11s. Will get better training playing up than down. But be prepared they will likely be offered a spot on the 2012 fall team if you are looking at next spring 2025.

[Guest]

Back to the original post can someone break it down like I am a kindergartener? This is actually really pertinent to my son and several of his teammates. So a player is

1. An October 2008
2. Just completed freshman year at public school and is transferring to private and repeating (as is 75% of incoming class)
3. His current 2008 ECNL team is mostly sophomores some freshman
4. So in fall 2024 he will be a freshman on a team with mostly juniors
5. If in fall 2025 they switch to July 1 does that mean he will drop down to what is now the current 2009 team and be the oldest on what is currently a 2009 ECNL team?

Crazy, so your son will be 19.75 yrs old when he graduates and this is common amongst his classmates? My son will still be 17 when he graduates, hard to believe kids will be almost 2 years older than him in the same class.

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Crazy, so your son will be 19.75 yrs old when he graduates and this is common amongst his classmates? My son will still be 17 when he graduates, hard to believe kids will be almost 2 years older than him in the same class.

If your kid was born fall of 2008
His team would be made up of kids that are born after Aug 1, 2008.
Not complicated.
His team will be made up of players born between Aug 1 2008- July 31 2009.
it’s not going to be based on school grade or birth year per se it’s by mid year cutoff and start.

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If your kid was born fall of 2008
His team would be made up of kids that are born after Aug 1, 2008.
Not complicated.
His team will be made up of players born between Aug 1 2008- July 31 2009.
it’s not going to be based on school grade or birth year per se it’s by mid year cutoff and start.

That sounds worse than birth year

[Guest]

That sounds worse than birth year

Just read a little of the thread if you want actual answers.

[Guest]

We can’t do birth year because it splits up school grades and gives an advantage to those born Jan-June

We can’t do school grad year because parents will hold their kids back to try to give them an advantage

We can’t do arbitrary mid-year to mid-year because it gives an advantage to kids born in the second half of the year and confuses parents because it’s not connected to birth or grad year

club soccer is cancelled, it’s too complicated