Heard the same thingOur club told us that there would be ECRL on the boys side this year. I just went back to the presentation they gave on ECNL/ECRL and it looks like it will be made up of teams from the 15 SoCal ECNL clubs only (no Arizona or Nevada teams). I don't think there is anything on the boys ECNL website about ECRL so it will be interesting to see if others have heard something similar to what we were told.
I believe this is the break down of the Southwest ECRL:
New Clubs To DATE: SDSC (San Diego, CA) SD Surf (San Diego, CA) Arsenal FC (Murrieta, CA) FC Golden State (Pasadena, CA) Strikers (Irvine, CA) Pateadores (Costa Mesa, CA) Real So Cal (Woodland Hills, CA)
Existing Member Clubs: Beach FC (Long Beach, CA) West Coast (Laguna Hills, CA) Slammers FC (Newport Beach, CA) DMCV Sharks (San Diego, CA) Legends FC (Chino, CA) LA Surf (Los Angeles, CA)
Looking at southwest clubs, most ages had their DA and DA2 (reserve/second) teams which played in the NPL West. Now that they moved their top team or the DA teams to ECNL and also are supposedly creating ECNL regional league for them, logically the DA2 teams would go to ECNL RL. Then what would happen to NPL West? Would it just diminish? I think it would be tough to create a third team for their clubs due to lack of players, coaches, etc. Besides, the level of NPL West would be very watered down compared to before.
If they were to create a third team, it would be biased as top 2 finishers of NPL West qualify for the ENPL Playoffs and so do their first team if they perform in ECNL! It wouldn't make sense for the first team and the third team of a club to have the chance to go to the same qualifying event..? (Im not sure about how ECNL RL works and whether they qualify for some event but just talking abt npl and ecnl, it seems kinda off)
Looking at southwest clubs, most ages had their DA and DA2 (reserve/second) teams which played in the NPL West. Now that they moved their top team or the DA teams to ECNL and also are supposedly creating ECNL regional league for them, logically the DA2 teams would go to ECNL RL. Then what would happen to NPL West? Would it just diminish? I think it would be tough to create a third team for their clubs due to lack of players, coaches, etc. Besides, the level of NPL West would be very watered down compared to before.
If they were to create a third team, it would be biased as top 2 finishers of NPL West qualify for the ENPL Playoffs and so do their first team if they perform in ECNL! It wouldn't make sense for the first team and the third team of a club to have the chance to go to the same qualifying event..? (Im not sure about how ECNL RL works and whether they qualify for some event but just talking abt npl and ecnl, it seems kinda off)
Yeah I don't really see the point in ECNL RL for the boys bc they have NPL West already but it seems like they're going to make it. They were saying they are going to make ECNL RL for SW, (real so cal already posted coaches for those ECNL RL teams I was like whaaaa) but I wasn't so sure about it, but then they announced ECNL RL for the texas region so it seems like it's going to happenSome clubs like LA Galaxy used their affiliates from South Bay and Orange County in the NPL West as well as FC Golden State. A club called FC Long Beach for example played under the golden state name for the NPL west while also playing their Coast Soccer League games. That being said they should just keep these teams in the NPL West there is really no need for an ECRL for boys.
Yeah I don't really see the point in ECNL RL for the boys bc they have NPL West already but it seems like they're going to make it. They were saying they are going to make ECNL RL for SW, (real so cal already posted coaches for those ECNL RL teams I was like whaaaa) but I wasn't so sure about it, but then they announced ECNL RL for the texas region so it seems like it's going to happen
ECRL will be made up of the teams that played NPL west.OK, so, for what I saw, there will be Boys ECRL. Now the next question is, what's the level going to look like?
Last year ECNL was, in general, more competitive than Gold / Flight 1 Champions teams. I wonder if ECRL would be on par with Gold / F1 C or just at Silver Elite / Europa/F2.
Anyway, we'll see..
Not to mention the teams that play in Coast Soccer LeagueECRL will be made up of the teams that played NPL west.
NPL west will be watered down . Not sure where they will get teams especially at the older age group.
Look at Golden state They will have 4 teams 2 ECNL and 2 ECRL. With options of players moving between teams for games .