ECNL Girls National Playoffs

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ECNL Girls has 130 clubs or 780 teams total. 376 teams or 48% qualify for some bracket/tier of playoffs. Playoffs breakdown:

Champions League-Top Bracket, 44 teams, U13 - U18/19
36% chance of getting out of 3 game pool play to Final 16 from initial 44 team’s qualifying.
18% chance to win 4th game to make it to Final 8 at ECNL Finals in Virginia in mid-July.
Broader math, comparing to entire 130 ECNL club pool:
34% chance of qualifying for this bracket via league conference performance.
12% chance for Final 16, 6% chance for Final 8, 3% chance Final 4, 1.5% chance Final 2.

North American Cup- 2nd tier, 16 teams, only U15, U16 U17
Plays like a tournament with a winner declared

Showcase A- 3rd tier, 16 teams, only U16, U17
Plays like a showcase, 3 games and done

Showcase B- 4th tier, 16 teams, only U16, U17
Plays like a showcase, 3 games and done


Portland Thorns Academy
Champions League- U17, U16 and U14 teams playing
U13, U15, U18/19 teams did not qualify for any tier

NW Elite
Showcase A- U17 team playing
U13, U14, U15, U16, U18/19 teams did not qualify for any tier

07 Northwest Elite is playing in Showcase B against So Cal Blues on June 24

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Wouldn’t touch thorns with a 10’foot pole. Associated with abusers, drug pusher trainers, cover ups etc.

their club teams are a joke too. Side a coupon teams that poached fc Portland kids they are drowning.

Yawn. ECNL in Oregon is a joke. Mediocre teams getting scammed paying more to play other bad teams.

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07 Northwest Elite is playing in Showcase B against So Cal Blues on June 24

That’s great! Do you know why NW Elite 2007/U16 is not mapped into the Playoffs Showcase B 2007 section of the ECNL app? Did a team in the 2007 Showcase B opt not to pay the expense to go to San Diego for this Showcase and NW Elite 2007 was slotted in their place?

…..OK. I just went and found an answer I think to my own question. It looks like Boise Thorns 2007 and PDA White 2007 qualified for Showcase B, but they have no games scheduled, so presumably they are opting not to go. The San Diego trip is costing most players that have to fly at least $2,500 to go. I can imagine a team and its’ families, if they did not make the Champions League, not wanting to pay this kind of money $$$ simply to go to a Showcase. Looking at the schedules, LA Breakers 2007 and NW Elite 2007 have accepted the offer to go in place of these teams.

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****NW Elite U17 #72 Nationally qualifying team
First game against Rockford Rapids who were #8 in the Midwest conference, but may be a harder team then they appear on paper. They only lost to #1 in their conference SLSG Navy by one goal and beat a few teams higher ranked in their 15 team conference too. They appear inconsistent. Depending on who wins or loses, will affect NW Elite’s next game in their North American Cup tournament play.

Jesus. How much time did you spend on this irrelevance? You seriously need to get a life.

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Jesus. How much time did you spend on this irrelevance? You seriously need to get a life.

At least they are not posting insults at others. Don’t like it don’t read it. It’s people like you that make this forum unpleasant.

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At least they are not posting insults at others. Do not like it, do not read it. It is people like you that make this forum unpleasant.

One hundred percent agree!

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One hundred percent agree!

Posting for what reason, then? Huh? To make yourselves feel nationally elite? Again, get a life.

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At least they are not posting insults at others. Don’t like it don’t read it. It’s people like you that make this forum unpleasant.

Uh yeah. This forum sucks. Everyone knows that and yet people continue to post like it is some kind of repository of anything but suck.

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Uh yeah. This forum sucks. Everyone knows that and yet people continue to post like it is some kind of repository of anything but suck.

Uh yeah. This forum sucks. Everyone knows that, yet people continue to post like it is some repository of anything but sucks.[/QUOTE]

Yes, you are right. My question is this:
When are Oregon parents going to realize that the leadership of our clubs is not suitable to teach our children?
You have Bridge City in GA. That is not a good fit for their club. You have NWE in ECNL and selling the BS on ECRL. Once again, ECNL is not a good fit, and they lie about the benefits of ECRL. The Thorns are selling that they are an Academy of the first team. NOT TRUE. Professional academies do not charge their players; they also have rights to them when drafted. The Thorns charge, and they have no rights to the players. We now have ECRL for boys. Oregon teams will be playing against each other in Boise. How ridiculous is that? And ECRL is just a few weekends in the year. And finally, you have United PDX getting boys ECNL that plays in the fall and clashes with high school soccer. Not a thought going into the welfare of the player.
Youth soccer is a mess right now. It is because parents do not do their research and are not thinking straight. They follow the glory to brag about their child to friends (and strangers).

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Uhh competitive soccer and bridge city don’t fit

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Uhh competitive soccer and bridge city don’t fit

Competitive soccer and Oregon is not a good fit. They should all play OYSA. But seriously, how bad are NW Elite in ECNL! Their teams got hammered.

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Competitive soccer and Oregon is not a good fit. They should all play OYSA. But seriously, how bad are NW Elite in ECNL! Their teams got hammered.

How will my average daughter ever get recruited if we do that? Geez.

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Uh yeah. This forum sucks. Everyone knows that, yet people continue to post like it is some repository of anything but sucks.

Yes, you are right. My question is this:
When are Oregon parents going to realize that the leadership of our clubs is not suitable to teach our children?
You have Bridge City in GA. That is not a good fit for their club. You have NWE in ECNL and selling the BS on ECRL. Once again, ECNL is not a good fit, and they lie about the benefits of ECRL. The Thorns are selling that they are an Academy of the first team. NOT TRUE. Professional academies do not charge their players; they also have rights to them when drafted. The Thorns charge, and they have no rights to the players. We now have ECRL for boys. Oregon teams will be playing against each other in Boise. How ridiculous is that? And ECRL is just a few weekends in the year. And finally, you have United PDX getting boys ECNL that plays in the fall and clashes with high school soccer. Not a thought going into the welfare of the player.
Youth soccer is a mess right now. It is because parents do not do their research and are not thinking straight. They follow the glory to brag about their child to friends (and strangers).[/QUOTE]

Great post! Seriously parents, do your research. You are being conned by ECNL. Love the idea, but OR is certainly not qualified to play in it. Why do people fall for this BS?

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Yawn. ECNL in Oregon is a joke. Mediocre teams getting scammed paying more to play other bad teams.

These sort of posts that we see all the time are such b()llshi+. If all of Oregon is mediocre I suppose we should just all stick to OYSA because that is so awesome. Our top mediocre teams would certainly stay mediocre. Maybe we’d have even fewer kids going to the D3 school everyone bags here.

Seriously, if you have a kid that wants to play in college at all what clubs have the best chance of getting them there. There’s really only a handful that do it with any consistency.

My kid does not play ECNL. But if I had a kid that could make the team I would have her check out both teams. I admit I am not big on the RL stuff but I don’t have any particular issue with it.

I do appreciate the subject of the post because I really don’t follow the ECNL stuff too close as to how it all works. Same with GA. Thanks for the info even if it comes off a bit like advertising for them.

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These sort of posts that we see all the time are such b()llshi+. If all of Oregon is mediocre I suppose we should just all stick to OYSA because that is so awesome. Our top mediocre teams would certainly stay mediocre. Maybe we’d have even fewer kids going to the D3 school everyone bags here.

Seriously, if you have a kid that wants to play in college at all what clubs have the best chance of getting them there. There’s really only a handful that do it with any consistency.

My kid does not play ECNL. But if I had a kid that could make the team I would have her check out both teams. I admit I am not big on the RL stuff but I don’t have any particular issue with it.

I do appreciate the subject of the post because I really don’t follow the ECNL stuff too close as to how it all works. Same with GA. Thanks for the info even if it comes off a bit like advertising for them.

These bitter people like to be negative because it makes them feel better about their kid not making it.

They forget if thorns ecnl didn’t exist those girls would be playing on a club team and move their little Susie down a team