No additional expansion plans have been announced. "For clubs interested in applying for the 2017-18 season, applications will be available in the fall of 2016 on our website".
http://www.ussoccerda.com/overview-join-academy-club.
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As you see 2017-18 will go to single age groups for everyone.
For 16-17 there are 3 types of DA clubs
1) U12 (04) only ...such as
Los Angeles Football Club U-12,
2) Dev only U12 (04), U13 (03), U14 (02)...such as
Albion SC U-13,
Santa Barbara Soccer Club U-14
3) Full DA; U12 (04), U13 (03), U14 (02), U15/16, U17/18...such as
Arsenal FC U-15/16,
Strikers FC U-17/18
For 17-18 one of the questions is what years will make up the above (3) categories?
Will the start age of DA be U12 (06's) or will that be U13 (05's) since the age matrix moves up a year
2017-2018
U12 = 2006
U13 - 2005
U14 - 2004
U15 - 2003
U16 - 2002
U17 - 2001
U18 - 2000
For the clubs with only one team (U12) this year 2016-17 my hunch is they will either have one team (06) in 2017-18 or just two teams (06,05) in also since expansion was just done but they could change. Those one AG clubs could get the full dev package teams at some point but maybe not next year.
For the clubs with the (3) dev teams in 2016-17 this is where this get interesting. Some will get all the age groups, but I have a tip that they are going to expand the dev group to four age groups. So those clubs will have (4) dev teams: 06,05,04,03 in the 2017-18 season.
USSF states they perform regular evals of the academy clubs but they are slow coming out or miss some apparently