Edp excessive fees

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EDP charges outrageous league fees, that gradually gets more expensive as play gets more competitive. The tournaments EDP charges also has doubled.

This is as soccer has become more popular and there are more teams.

EDP has not improved their systems.

This is what local clubs have to deal with fees and time:
1) Coach training fees;
2) Field reservations, and field reservation fees (varies by town and most towns now charge);
3) Fall and Spring, or, Fall, Winter and Spring, the seasons add to charges for space to train and coaches to run the training sessions;
4) Insurance and liability;
5) Uniforms;
6) Carding;
7) Registration;
8) Referees and referee fees;
9) League fees;
10) Team forming;
11) Soliciting for donations or fund raising;
12) and recruiting for players and volunteers.

This all takes time, people that know, and money.

The bigger an issue one of these elements becomes, then the whole system is affected.

And, local towns are volunteer driven. We are NOT like EDP which is business focused.

It's pretty obvious that someone at EDP became very sensitive to the accusations of running a business like a criminal empire, money grabbing, and the EDP fees ARE excessive.

We will do just that, assess our options! Thanks EDP!

Wow! You really like lists...

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Got a solution for you go donate your $ to the great Alliance league! You save 300 bucks a year that will really help

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Agree. We love EDP. What is this guy complaining about?

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Also have no issue with EDP. People that go to TS to bash teams or leagues usually have their own agendas.

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They are prob Alliance league folks as they need more teams to join. Don’t fall for the bait

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Agree. We love EDP. What is this guy complaining about?

Guy is not alone, thread is EXCESSIVE EDP FEES...

And the DO NOTHING EDP team.

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They are prob Alliance league folks as they need more teams to join. Don’t fall for the bait

Just attack everyone, right EDP, you guys are horrible money-grabbers!

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Also have no issue with EDP. People that go to TS to bash teams or leagues usually have their own agendas.

Agenda 1: stop the rising costs of youth soccer

Agenda 2: make visible the egregious money making body at the head of the snake, aka "EDP"

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Definitely Alliance League folks. Good job smoking that out.

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Love how you think you’re talking to EDP ha ha.

I work for a club with around 45 teams and know all of the outgoing we have. Our two biggest? Fields and refs. I can bet you the money EDP spends on fields, refs, insurance absolutely dwarves yours, ours and everyone else’s out there. If your assessment is true, that they have over 3000 teams, then I can’t imagine you’ll be terribly missed.

EXCEPT FOR TOURNAMENTS, EDP spends no money on fields, refs and insurance.

Their league fees and total revenue generated, comes from managing an online platform. They don't need to charge more when there are so many teams joining. For leagues, EDP does not manage fields, refs, insurance, etc.

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No one cares mate. It’s a good league thats why so many joining. No one joining Alliance League. Shut it down.

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It’s quite embarrassing to have quality clubs like PDA Shore playing in Alliance, wonder if that was dictated by mother ship in order to comply with the anti USSF/USYS mandate!

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EXCEPT FOR TOURNAMENTS, EDP spends no money on fields, refs and insurance.

Their league fees and total revenue generated, comes from managing an online platform. They don't need to charge more when there are so many teams joining. For leagues, EDP does not manage fields, refs, insurance, etc.

I’ll concede that one and pose a question. If it’s so easy to run a league platform, efficiently, effectively and at low cost then why don’t you start one up? You seem to know a ton about Youth soccer and are clearly a purist so I reckon like minded clubs would jump aboard. It won’t take much to convince our owner to bring all 45 teams across if it saves money, provides the same level of support, pathways and extras that we currently get. I’ll also get him to lower our tuition by $20 per kid just so the families see the benefit of all your hard work.

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I’ll concede that one and pose a question. If it’s so easy to run a league platform, efficiently, effectively and at low cost then why don’t you start one up? You seem to know a ton about Youth soccer and are clearly a purist so I reckon like minded clubs would jump aboard. It won’t take much to convince our owner to bring all 45 teams across if it saves money, provides the same level of support, pathways and extras that we currently get. I’ll also get him to lower our tuition by $20 per kid just so the families see the benefit of all your hard work.

Check out Alliance as well, growing league with lots of top shelf academy teams. A much lower cost.

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It’s quite embarrassing to have quality clubs like PDA Shore playing in Alliance, wonder if that was dictated by mother ship in order to comply with the anti USSF/USYS mandate!

For who? PDA Shore or Alliance League? PDA Shore is a shell of it's former self and Alliance League seems to be more of a club scrimmage for MF.