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The Development Player League announced last week in a press released that it would be enhancing and restructuring its competition, adding a "Girls Academy League" consisting of former Girls DA clubs.

The league announced last week in a press release that "we have been inundated with requests from clubs to expand the DPL from all areas of the country," in the wake of the Girls DA closing.

Per the release, the organization is looking to maintain the level of the DA and offer a bit of wiggle room to clubs when it comes to the rules.

"By unifying DA clubs from conferences across the country we have found a way to maintain several of the defining standards of the Development Academy with flexibility in two key areas; permission for all players in the Girls Academy League to participate in High School Soccer and revising the substitution rules to encourage clubs to better utilize their player pools, especially when showcasing their players to college coaches."

The initial six conferences have been announced on the league's social media account. Check out an FAQ over there as well. A seventh, the Northwest Conference, was just announced on Monday, May 4.

Girls Academy Conference Alignment

Southwest

City SC San Diego

LA Surf SC

Albion SC San Diego

Albion SC Las Vegas

Legends FC

Utah Royals FC AZ

West Coast FC

Beach FC

Pateadores Academy

SC del Sol

Mid-America

Beadling SC

Cleveland Force SC

Midwest United FC

Salvo SC

Chicago FC United

Cincinnati United SC

Michigan Jaguars FC

Nationals SC

MN Eclipse

SC Wave

Indy Premier

Sockers FC

Northeast

Cedar Stars Academy

South Shore Select

NEFC

New York Soccer Club

Seacoast United


Long Island SC

STA

Oakwood SC

Mid-Atlantic

Cedar Stars Academy - Monmouth

Arlington Soccer Association

Baltimore Armour

TSJ FC Virginia

Philadelphia Ukranian Nationals SC

SJEB Rush

Metro United

PA Classics

Southeast

IMG Academy

United Soccer Alliance

Tophat SC

Wake FC

West Florida Flames

Weston FC

Frontier

Colorado Rush

Houston Dash

Lonestar SC

Lou Fusz Athletic

Oklahoma Energy FC

Rise SC

San Antonio City SC

Sporting Blue Valley

West Side Alliance

Northwest

Breakers FC

Clovis Crossfire

ISC Gunners

Lamorinda SC

Reign Academy

Silicon Valley Soccer Association

The permission for HS soccer is not really what many might think it means. It is a very restricted permission which makes it almost impossible for a player to play HS soccer and be allowed on the club roster. They are saying that it will be up to the clubs to decide, however, the clubs have agreed on common rules for this.

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What rules?

As an 07 parent we will be looking at how our club handles the HS issue this year. We have been told that they prefer players do club but are fine with HS and the major workaround is that they will schedule games for those ages outside of the HS season. We were shown a tentative schedule that had pretty well zero games for sept through mid Nov. we will see what actually happens.

Didn’t they advertise this as a 10-month league? If so, HS soccer will be very difficult.

“The new Girls Academy will uphold the highest standards and principles, all in alignment with what we do at Long Island Soccer Club,” said Gary Book, Long Island SC Academy Director. “The aim is to continue to provide the opportunity for our players to have consistent competition over 10 months”.

There’s no way you can have HS soccer plus 4 club practices per week and games on the weekends.

One more thing, the Mid-Atlantic conference includes Virginia clubs. Those players have HS ball in the spring.