The Flights for the 2019 Fall Season are now posted.
Go to
www.scdslsoccer.com and hover over CLUB DIRECTORY/2019 FALL FLIGHTS then click on 2019 Fall Flights from the dropdown menu
Discovery Divisions are at the very bottom.
A few things to note:
* There were not enough applications for Discovery or Champions Divisions for the G2006 birth year so that birth year (Flight 1) is split into Europa Divisions by geography. From results from this year, Discovery and Champions will be built for the 2020 season in the G2006's.
* Champions Division in the combined G2001/02 is divided by North/South.
* Discovery for the G01's and G02's are split in to true G2002's and a combined 01/02 division since there were returning teams from last year's 00/01 the review committee wanted to honor those returning teams as well have a true G02 Discovery since there were enough teams for both.
Discovery for boys does start at the 2006 birth year.
Number of games for the season:
All short-sided teams will play 12 games.
2006 and 2007 birth years will play 12 games plus a modified/abbreviated play-off. Information on the playoffs for these birth years will be sent towards the beginning of the season.
2005 and older birth years (not including Discovery) will play 10-games plus a modified/abbreviated playoff.
Discovery teams will play a 10-game season with no playoffs.
League play begins on Saturday, September 7th. The season ends on Sunday, November 24th (some teams may be done before) rain-dates for 2006 and younger birth years will be December 7-8, 2019.
NOTE: In birth years where teams are placed by geography - a "I" and "II" designation doesn't imply that there is a higher level of (South I or South II for example). It just means that there are a lot of teams from that geographical area and the divisions are broken up into more than one geographical group.
All teams 2007 and older (all full-size teams) that applied for Flight 1 were reviewed by a committee of DOC's that attended the meetings earlier in July. There was much discussion, research and review for anyone that applied for Flight 1 so, at this time, all flights are final.
DISCOVERY: This division is a promotion/relegation division. It is not rebuilt every season. The bottom 3 teams drop to Champions and the top 3 teams from Champions promote to Discovery. In some cases there were 30+ applications for Discovery from teams that won Flight 2, finished middle of Europa, etc. so please don't be surprised when these teams are not listed in Discovery.
Discovery games will all be played at Silverlakes as will the non-Discovery playoffs at the end of the season. Some playoff games may also be played at Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park too.
Also, no one "double jumped" in divisions. If a team won Flight 2, they were placed in Europa (even if they requested Champions or Discovery). If they won Europa, they moved in to Champions.
There were no Flight 2 teams lower than 3rd place that were moved to Flight 1 Europa.
We realize there will be teams that expected placement higher than what they may be placed. This is why we have an open review meeting for any DOC to attend and not only provide insight into their own teams but to help provide knowledge with all of the other teams.
If you have any questions, please contact your DOC or Club Admin. Your DOC or Club Admin should alwasy be your first point of contact.
There is no appeal process since all DOC's had the opportunity to attend (or send a representative) to the review meetings.
Schedules will be posted towards the end of August. I will send an email with the Team Pages are available to update.
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your summer!
Michelle
). Don't completely disagree with you as there might be a couple gold teams that would have been better served at Silver Elite. Still like the promotion and relegation of CSL. The Premier is usually pretty solid as well.
