New ECNL 2 League?

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Karlton Athletic

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Heard a rumor from my kid’s coach that ECNL are going to respond to MLSNext 2 with a new ECNL 2 league, with ECRL then dropping down to 3rd division status.

Not seeing it mentioned anywhere, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
 
Karlton Athletic said:
We're one of those clubs with two RL teams, and our coach was definitely under the impression that the "top" RL team would move to ECNL 2, with the other one remaining in RL.
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I was thinking for your situation that possibly that both teams stay in ecrl and they make a new third tier league where npl kids will play and will possibly be able to be promoted
 
Latest I heard was RL (SoCal) will be split into two "conferences", playing teams in your own conference home and away, plus one game against each team in the other conference. Clubs (not teams) will then be promoted or relegated to or from the lower RL2 league. Also heard some clubs have already been relegated to RL2, with the remaining clubs all being offered a 2nd RL slot if they haven't got one already.
 
Karlton Athletic said:
Latest I heard was RL (SoCal) will be split into two "conferences", playing teams in your own conference home and away, plus one game against each team in the other conference. Clubs (not teams) will then be promoted or relegated to or from the lower RL2 league. Also heard some clubs have already been relegated to RL2, with the remaining clubs all being offered a 2nd RL slot if they haven't got one already.
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Sounds like a good way to piss people off and drive clubs to GA.
 
Karlton Athletic said:
This is for boys... don't know about the girls' side.
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In that case it makes a lot of sense. Boys ECNL isnt really worried about losing clubs to other leagues. Also, boys youth soccer is less "cliquey" than girls. Players and parents would probably welcome a limited form of pro/rel.
 
Carlsbad7 said:
In that case it makes a lot of sense. Boys ECNL isnt really worried about losing clubs to other leagues. Also, boys youth soccer is less "cliquey" than girls. Players and parents would probably welcome a limited form of pro/rel.
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From what I heard, there will be RL2. Several Southern California clubs already have the 2nd RL team, like Rebel and SDSC. So it will be the C team league.
 
CAZZZ said:
From what I heard, there will be RL2. Several Southern California clubs already have the 2nd RL team, like Rebel and SDSC. So it will be the C team league.
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Wouldn't what youre describing usually be the SOCAL league team? I don't really care but SOCAL likely wont be happy losing teams to ECNL.
 
CAZZZ said:
Paying $3K and traveling 2 hours to play against another C team is dumb.
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I dont know about that. Stopped worrying about how other people spend they money a long time ago. But I agree with you paying more to drive further for games doesn't seem to make sense.
 
Carlsbad7 said:
Wouldn't what youre describing usually be the SOCAL league team? I don't really care but SOCAL likely wont be happy losing teams to ECNL.
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I have to imagine that SoCal sees the writing on the wall and recognizes that a couple years from now it will only be youngers, 7v7 and 9v9
 
theres really only MLS next and Ecnl , just remember nobody gave a shit about Pre academy back in the day , same with mls next 2 its just a way for clubs to get you excited to pay 5g plus per year...
 
So if ECNL clubs pull their older 3rd teams out of SOCAL. This would leave MLSN clubs and everyone else.

What do you think the odds are that MLSN clubs do the same thing with their 3rd teams?
 
CAZZZ said:
From what I heard, there will be RL2. Several Southern California clubs already have the 2nd RL team, like Rebel and SDSC. So it will be the C team league.
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The way I heard it, the two leagues will play their own league's teams twice, home and away, and play the other league's teams once. Part of the rationale for the home and away element was to encourage teams to study their opponents tactically for the return game, or at least that's how it was pitched to the coaches. It wasn't RL 1 and RL 2 - it was RL East and RL West, or whatever name they come up with.

That said, I haven't heard any more about it.
 
Karlton Athletic said:
The way I heard it, the two leagues will play their own league's teams twice, home and away, and play the other league's teams once. Part of the rationale for the home and away element was to encourage teams to study their opponents tactically for the return game, or at least that's how it was pitched to the coaches. It wasn't RL 1 and RL 2 - it was RL East and RL West, or whatever name they come up with.

That said, I haven't heard any more about it.
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What I heard is there will be RL1 and RL2. In RL1 there will be two groups of 8 teams each. RL2 will have ten teams of 3rd teams from the ECNL club. RL2 team will not play against RL1 teams. So it is basically a C team league of high cost and requiring 2 hours of travel.
 
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