US soccer age change

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Yes but no one is mentioning when US club has their final meeting on the subject

Nov 22nd

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I can't see it happening in time for 2025-2026 but I could be wrong

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I can't see it happening in time for 2025-2026 but I could be wrong

IF they decide in this November meeting, it would have to be for next fall. Pushing all of this out a year just makes a transition messier. The last thing we need is a year and a half long food fight for Q4 players. For high school ages, we'd be talking 2 years until the first game is played in NJ for this change if it happens for 25-26.

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IF they decide in this November meeting, it would have to be for next fall. Pushing all of this out a year just makes a transition messier. The last thing we need is a year and a half long food fight for Q4 players. For high school ages, we'd be talking 2 years until the first game is played in NJ for this change if it happens for 25-26.

Isn't next Fall the same as 2025-26?

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How does this eventual change impact the 08 athletes who are currently U17? For example, a 3/08 birthday would be reclassified to a team with 8/1/07 -12/31/07 athletes who are currently U18. Does that cause the 3/08 player to jump to U19 next fall, bypassing U18 or does the latter 07 group repeat U18? Does this have any impact on recruiting for the 1/1/08- 7/31/08 group who will be going into their senior year?

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The realty is that for girls the 18U and 19U divisions are combined anyway. There won’t be much difference for them.

It’s up for discussion in November. A change of at all wouldn’t happen until at least 26-27. It’s US Soccer. The incompetent group that can’t find themselves out of a box.

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The realty is that for girls the 18U and 19U divisions are combined anyway. There won’t be much difference for them.

It’s up for discussion in November. A change of at all wouldn’t happen until at least 26-27. It’s US Soccer. The incompetent group that can’t find themselves out of a box.

https://usclubsoccer.org/us-club-soc...calendar-year/

If there is a change, sounds like it’s next season 2025-26

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The realty is that for girls the 18U and 19U divisions are combined anyway. There won’t be much difference for them.

It’s up for discussion in November. A change of at all wouldn’t happen until at least 26-27. It’s US Soccer. The incompetent group that can’t find themselves out of a box.

Which is one of the main reasons for the change! You have juniors and seniors playing on the same team, by going GY that doesn't happen.

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Anybody who is complaining about changing to grade year over birth year clearly just has an older girl in the birth year. The whole country operates on grade year and it makes the most sense.

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Anybody who is complaining about changing to grade year over birth year clearly just has an older girl in the birth year. The whole country operates on grade year and it makes the most sense.

If our system is to get you recruited…why wouldn’t they play with their grade ???? Makes zero sense the way we have it. It should go back to grade. I wish it was like that when we started soccer…would have been more enjoyable at the younger ages to play with friends from school.

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The last time they changed it the announcement was made around August 2015 for the change that went into effect August 2017. Relax. It’s up for discussion in November. It’s US Soccer. No one is rushing.

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The last time they changed it the announcement was made around August 2015 for the change that went into effect August 2017. Relax. It’s up for discussion in November. It’s US Soccer. No one is rushing.

It’s a lot easier to expand an age group than to force kids off one. Everyone in eligible on their current team. That was not true prior.

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It’s a lot easier to expand an age group than to force kids off one. Everyone in eligible on their current team. That was not true prior.

Of course there is expansion and contraction. Kids on one team will end up on another. Take 2010 BY. 2010 will now play with 2009 (Aug-09 to July-10) and 2010 will play with 2011 (Sep-10 to July-11). It’s the same fn mess from 2017 so it’s not happening overnight. No one knows anything and just trying to make it work for themselves.

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Of course there is expansion and contraction. Kids on one team will end up on another. Take 2010 BY. 2010 will now play with 2009 (Aug-09 to July-10) and 2010 will play with 2011 (Sep-10 to July-11). It’s the same fn mess from 2017 so it’s not happening overnight. No one knows anything and just trying to make it work for themselves.

No doubt a huge mess and 99% of teams will get split apart. I just meant last time around you had 25-30% of kids that were forced to play up and couldn’t play with their teams. Now you have that same cohort that can play down, but is also eligible to stay where they are. It does make a transition a little easier if clubs have lumpy pockets of trapped kids. Across my kids age group our club has 5 trapped kids across 2 teams. The group above has 16. Who knows what they’ll do.

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No doubt a huge mess and 99% of teams will get split apart. I just meant last time around you had 25-30% of kids that were forced to play up and couldn’t play with their teams. Now you have that same cohort that can play down, but is also eligible to stay where they are. It does make a transition a little easier if clubs have lumpy pockets of trapped kids. Across my kids age group our club has 5 trapped kids across 2 teams. The group above has 16. Who knows what they’ll do.

Parents complaining about kids team getting messed with is the same parents looking to replace kids on the roster that don’t play their kids position. Teams change every year it’s not a big deal. The only problem now is it might be your kid getting moved off the team.