The Elite Academy League has been born out of the West playing inside USYS and Cal South, starting with the Southwest Division forming the “MLS Elite” extended player pool/reserve league. The league will continue to build off the standards of the former DA and now the “MLS Elite”.

This league will keep the standards, the prestige, and maintain each club’s high level program.

This program being launched will build off of every valued principle, tested and proven within the DA; and is committed to being the top player development league in the United States.

This program will replicate the DA program in all the best aspects of the former program, but with the added benefit of new improvements and innovations as determined by the collective experience and knowledge of the elite club members.