With the start of two ECNL teams coming this fall, what does this mean for NPL level players?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postso nothing to do with the current new npl? thank you
New England NPL has seen most clubs’ top teams move to other leagues (with some spare players remaining in NPL)
Northeast NPL essentially was just whacked because those teams are now in the Second ECNL League
So for many clubs you will see anywhere from their 2nd to 4th (or even 5th) best teams participating
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostDepends on what NPL you are referring to?
New England NPL has seen most clubs’ top teams move to other leagues (with some spare players remaining in NPL)
Northeast NPL essentially was just whacked because those teams are now in the Second ECNL League
So for many clubs you will see anywhere from their 2nd to 4th (or even 5th) best teams participating
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMy understanding is that there will be one ECNL National team and the second team plays in ECNL regional. NE NPL would be 3. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostFor Stars, there will be 2 ECNL teams per age group as there are now. The 3rd team would be ECNL regional. Northeast Npl will not exist—it’s now the ECNL Regional League.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post2 teams per age group in both ECNL and ECNL Regional so 3rd and 4th teams are ECNL Regional.
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Northeast NPL will be rebranded as ECNL Regional
New England NPL A will become second team league except for a few original clubs (Bayside, GPS and Aztecs). NPL B league will continue to be rotating teams.
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It’s all about numbers. There are two ECNL clubs in MA. Stars and Scropions. Stars has far more players than Scorpions. Same with PDA vs other NJ/NY clubs. PDA has far more players. So Stars and PDA get two ECNL teams in the ECNL National league and two ECNL teams in the ECNL Regional league. The rest of the ECNL clubs get one per league per usual. The two teams come from the same club, yet are treated as two different clubs by the ECNL. So Stars East and Stars West are two different clubs. PDA has PDA White and PDA Blue. People get all worked up about A team and B team when going forward it’s supposed to be two separate clubs. I’m sure that the stronger players will be on East, however I’m guessing the teams will be slightly more equal as time goes on.
Now my issue will be with player development and a chance to move up. That’s virtually non-existent now until tryout time. Once on East or West that’s where you stay. No moving mid-year. So no moving from team 2 to 1 or vice versa like before when an NPL player could guest play with ECNL if they deserved some time. This will still happen with other clubs of course that only have one ECNL and ECNLR team. My daughter benefitted from this in the past and was able to move up from NPL to ECNL with Stars because she improved. Now a player like her will be trapped.
Now with Stars team 3 will be under team 1 on the East side and team 4 will be under team 2 on the West side. Not fair for a player from team 3 to guest play on team 1 over players on team 2 and not fair for players from team 4 to guest play on team 2 over team 3. Not sure what they will do in this situation. But, then again, life’s not fair.
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