ECNL Regional League

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crossfire Premier has posted some of their coaches slate on their scroll, looks like all their A teams will now be regional ECNL.

Anyone which other clubs are participating?

that's interesting as I havent seen a NW ECNL Regional league for girls. I wonder who else is involved.

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that's interesting as I havent seen a NW ECNL Regional league for girls. I wonder who else is involved.

I'll give you a hint. The club that produced stars like Jordan Morris and .... (fill in the blank).
Here is the announcement~

We are also very proud to announce the inclusion of our U16-U19 Red teams into the ECNL Regional League! In addition to their RCL schedule, this will offer additional exposure to the ECNL structure. In their recent announcement, the ECNL is expanding to have more teams in the National programming. This is great news for us! EFC

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I'll give you a hint. The club that produced stars like Jordan Morris and .... (fill in the blank).
Here is the announcement~

We are also very proud to announce the inclusion of our U16-U19 Red teams into the ECNL Regional League! In addition to their RCL schedule, this will offer additional exposure to the ECNL structure. In their recent announcement, the ECNL is expanding to have more teams in the National programming. This is great news for us! EFC

So as a tack on to rcl, the b teams of the current ECNL teams and maybe a couple other clubs like snohomish’s a teams will play ecnlr. Yawn.

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interesting, no announcement from crossfire yet beyond the names on the coaching slate, and they seem to distinguish between ECNL R and RCL, with A teams now listed as ECNL R and B teams as RCL -1.

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If 5 or more of the main clubs add ECNL-R, doesn't that decimate the remaining former B team league? Who is left to play, Valor, Sound FC, maybe Bellingham and Federal Way teams? Short sighted. What a way to toss a grenade into the disjointed leagues.

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This seems like a way for ECNL to knock GAL out.

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OP here. I do wonder if this is a way for the larger clubs to distance themselves from RCL. It's only a matter of time before ECNLR starts adding lower age groups. Guarantee all the current ECNL clubs will include ECNLR

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When does SU or Crossfire announce MLS Next? Crossfire should be in the discussion based on Boys ECNL, but Bernie probably has too much pride.

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If 5 or more of the main clubs add ECNL-R, doesn't that decimate the remaining former B team league? Who is left to play, Valor, Sound FC, maybe Bellingham and Federal Way teams? Short sighted. What a way to toss a grenade into the disjointed leagues.

There are a lot of players that the ECNL Regional league will be a good fit, not quite good enough for full on ECNL but need more than what the run of the mill club can offer. Or good a fit for players that want to play quality soccer, just don't want their life consumed by it. It's a great compromise!

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There are a lot of players that the ECNL Regional league will be a good fit, not quite good enough for full on ECNL but need more than what the run of the mill club can offer. Or good a fit for players that want to play quality soccer, just don't want their life consumed by it. It's a great compromise!

I wonder if any of the really uncompetitive ECNL teams will get demoted to ECNL-R.

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There are a lot of players that the ECNL Regional league will be a good fit, not quite good enough for full on ECNL but need more than what the run of the mill club can offer. Or good a fit for players that want to play quality soccer, just don't want their life consumed by it. It's a great compromise!

STFU, club DOC and board members or get people to write a bit more intelligently beyond a
community college drop education.

This is about business and numbers. Clubs are going to feel the baby bust from the 2008
great recession, covid-19 economic effects, and the high costs of club soccer not being
"worth it" anymore.

This is all about consolidation and keeping kids in house. Nation wide.
So this is how it is going to play out with all of the dilution of teams and leagues.
There is no collective memory of when there were only two ECNL teams in the state.

ECNL - 3-4 A team level players. The rest solid B team.
ECNL-R - Lower B team. Solid C team.
RCL - Lower C. The rest

The college coaches are well aware of the money grab and dilution of the leagues.
Ain't foolin' nobody, son. So, parents who are on the college recruitment track, you
need to develop your kids beyond what club can offer. There is no other way.

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When does SU or Crossfire announce MLS Next? Crossfire should be in the discussion based on Boys ECNL, but Bernie probably has too much pride.

Pride, for what? That league hasn't played a single game. The move to ECNL for him was the only move to make. That league will die before it even gets off the ground nationally.
For SU they would play against whom exactly? Let's say for their U-19's, fill me in.

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Pride, for what? That league hasn't played a single game. The move to ECNL for him was the only move to make. That league will die before it even gets off the ground nationally.
For SU they would play against whom exactly? Let's say for their U-19's, fill me in.

Pride- because they were dropped to second tier DA before it collapsed. Bernie was not happy about that, nor should he.

SU- Do they want to partner with Sounders Academy or compete? Are they tired of getting thrashed by xfire?

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Pride- because they were dropped to second tier DA before it collapsed. Bernie was not happy about that, nor should he.

SU- Do they want to partner with Sounders Academy or compete? Are they tired of getting thrashed by xfire?

And those dumb tiers played a huge role in killing the DA. US Soccer is flat a disaster, MLS is worse for youth development.
The DA was the "right" structure, the Sounders and others couldn't take getting beat by non-MLS clubs so they frankly killed it. It will take years to get close to how good the DA was.

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Is there a graph or something to visually show the relationship and flow of RCL, ECNL, Academies, etc. This is quite confusing, especially for a non soccer parent from outside the region.