Playoff explanation?

WillJohn

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Can someone explain the different playoffs?

Looks like CIF-SS (Southern Section) just finished for Division 1-7. Is that only for LA, OC, and Ventura teams?

Now we have the CIF SoCal Regional? Is that for the champion/runner-up for the SS and other areas like San Diego / Inland Empire / ??? and put into a 7-8 team tournament?

And then winner plays Northern California? Or is that just football?
 
Can someone explain the different playoffs?

Looks like CIF-SS (Southern Section) just finished for Division 1-7. Is that only for LA, OC, and Ventura teams?

Now we have the CIF SoCal Regional? Is that for the champion/runner-up for the SS and other areas like San Diego / Inland Empire / ??? and put into a 7-8 team tournament?

And then winner plays Northern California? Or is that just football?
I may be wrong, but I believe for Regionals there are only 3 or 4 divisions, not 7 and it starts with 8 teams for each division, including all CIF-SS sections.
 
Can someone explain the different playoffs?

Looks like CIF-SS (Southern Section) just finished for Division 1-7. Is that only for LA, OC, and Ventura teams?

Now we have the CIF SoCal Regional? Is that for the champion/runner-up for the SS and other areas like San Diego / Inland Empire / ??? and put into a 7-8 team tournament?

And then winner plays Northern California? Or is that just football?

Here's a map of the sections https://www.cifstate.org/about/sections

Southern section, IMO, does the best job of presenting playoff info https://cifss.org/sports/girls-soccer/. If you look at the "Playoff Bulletin" you'll see how many teams they send to each level of socal regional, but only for Southern section.

It's my understanding from reading that socal regional is comprised, at a minimum, of the champions of Southern, LA city, San Diego sections with the remaining spots split between the sections..well for D1 at least, not sure how sections without divisions determine who to send where.

For whatever reason central section seems to be in NorCal regional this year. Last year they participated in the socal regional. https://www.cifstate.org/sports/soccer/SoCal_brkts_2021/index
 
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