US Club adds NH State Cup

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http://www.usclubsoccer.org/2015/02/...-in-northeast/

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"Teams play in self-scheduled group matches with the top-seeded teams advancing to the final weekend"... Awesome, I can't wait for that cluster. Welcome to the self service world we live in.

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How is this new news? It's been on the NEP website and bantered about on TS foir Months.

Self Scheduling cannot be any worse than the crap scheduling of last years state cup where teams had instances of 2 games a weekend during league play, making it 3 games in 2 days. Not to mention the need to go to Pembroke.

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The pairings are already done as reported in another thread, I think it will work much better than last year!

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The pairings are already done as reported in another thread, I think it will work much better than last year!

Does anyone have a good understanding on how this will work in NH? I understand the US Club Regional pairings by state, age and gender are done but how will you get to the NH US Club champion? Not sure if there is a tournament page or it is done offline by the teams.

Any information would be appreciated.

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Does anyone have a good understanding on how this will work in NH? I understand the US Club Regional pairings by state, age and gender are done but how will you get to the NH US Club champion? Not sure if there is a tournament page or it is done offline by the teams.

Any information would be appreciated.

NH US Club champion in each age group will be determined by a coin flip between GPS-NH and Seacoast.

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Does anyone have a good understanding on how this will work in NH? I understand the US Club Regional pairings by state, age and gender are done but how will you get to the NH US Club champion? Not sure if there is a tournament page or it is done offline by the teams.

Any information would be appreciated.

Let's take the U14 boys section:

Seacoast United Premier AB
FC Bolts New Hampshire
Lightning SC 00/01 COSMOS
GPS NH Classics NPL
GPS NH Eagles


1. Bolts play Eagles
2. winner plays Seacoast
3. winner to finals

1. GPS plays Lightning
2. winner to finals

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Let's take the U14 boys section:

Seacoast United Premier AB
FC Bolts New Hampshire
Lightning SC 00/01 COSMOS
GPS NH Classics NPL
GPS NH Eagles


1. Bolts play Eagles
2. winner plays Seacoast
3. winner to finals

1. GPS plays Lightning
2. winner to finals

Now lets take NHSA aka USYS State Cup at U14....

1) NWC Elite vs Hooksett

Wow that looks like fun

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Let's take the U14 boys section:

Seacoast United Premier AB
FC Bolts New Hampshire
Lightning SC 00/01 COSMOS
GPS NH Classics NPL
GPS NH Eagles


1. Bolts play Eagles
2. winner plays Seacoast
3. winner to finals

1. GPS plays Lightning
2. winner to finals

In other words, once the cannon fodder is dispensed with, it's GPS-NH versus Seacoast. Mock NWC versus Hooksett all you want on the USYS side. Bolts, Lightning and Eagles are in the same class as Hooksett. Only thing US Club has to offer is that they are home to 2 out of the 3 viable clubs in NH.

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In other words, once the cannon fodder is dispensed with, it's GPS-NH versus Seacoast. Mock NWC versus Hooksett all you want on the USYS side. Bolts, Lightning and Eagles are in the same class as Hooksett. Only thing US Club has to offer is that they are home to 2 out of the 3 viable clubs in NH.

I am mocking the fact that the U14's are probably one of the few brackets where there is more than 1 team. Its a shame that NWC and Hooksett have to pay a ridiculous fee to play one another for the chance to go to Regionals. The other SC at least have a few teams in it.

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I am mocking the fact that the U14's are probably one of the few brackets where there is more than 1 team. Its a shame that NWC and Hooksett have to pay a ridiculous fee to play one another for the chance to go to Regionals. The other SC at least have a few teams in it.

You responded to my post and I agree with your sentiment. I haven't seen the USYS State Cup schedule yet (was supposed to be posted by 3/15 I believe), but am hearing my son's age group only has two teams, that will play a two game "home and away" series (a la Champions League??) and will have an additional match set up with some second rate out of state team, to I suppose, justify the entry fee. Not good, but I guess falls in the category of "it is what it is". IMO, any State Cup series in NH that does not at a minimum include GPS-NH, Seacoast and NWC is bogus and all the kids lose out by not renewing old rivalries each year.

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You responded to my post and I agree with your sentiment. I haven't seen the USYS State Cup schedule yet (was supposed to be posted by 3/15 I believe), but am hearing my son's age group only has two teams, that will play a two game "home and away" series (a la Champions League??) and will have an additional match set up with some second rate out of state team, to I suppose, justify the entry fee. Not good, but I guess falls in the category of "it is what it is". IMO, any State Cup series in NH that does not at a minimum include GPS-NH, Seacoast and NWC is bogus and all the kids lose out by not renewing old rivalries each year.

Couldn't agree more!

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State Cup in July at this rate!

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State Cup in July at this rate!

When is NHSA going to release the State Cup schedule? It's not like there will be a lot of games to schedule with all of the NEP/US Club teams not participating. Nice job NHSA!

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Does NH have enough U.S. club teams to make this worthwhile?