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Organized youth soccer affiliated with Major League Soccer began with various MLS academy teams playing in the Super Y-League at its foundation in 1999. In 2007, the United States Soccer Federation created an elite academy league called the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which featured academy teams of MLS teams, along with several non-MLS academies across the United States and Canada.
The Houston Dynamo Academy was created in 2007 and led by then-Director of Youth Development James Clarkson. [46] On February 27, 2009, the Dynamo signed Tyler Deric , their first homegrown player in club history.
MLS announced that Next Pro would start with at least 20 teams, many of them owned by Major League Soccer and development teams between their first-teams and their youth academies. [2] All MLS clubs with reserve teams in the USL Championship or USL League One initially planned to move those sides to MLS Next Pro by 2023.
Houston Dutch Lions FC Soccer Facility; Conroe, Texas (October 2013 – 2019). The fields are the training grounds of the teams: USL Premier Development League, National Premier Soccer League, Houston Football Association, and the club's youth academy. After the fields opening up in October 2014, the club opened a unique club house in May 2015.
From 2012 to 2016, EPPP Category 1 academies' most senior youth league was an under-21 league known as the U21 Premier League, with four over-age outfield players being permitted to play. From the 2016–17 season onwards, the competition is known as the Premier League 2 and the age limit was increased from under-21 to under-23. [ 2 ]
By 2019, the ECNL girls' league had 94 clubs and boys' league had 90 clubs. After the shutdown of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy in 2020, [13] [26] [14] the girls' league expanded to 113 clubs and boys' league to 131 clubs. [1] Public filings indicated that the league's revenue grew from $500,000 in 2010 to $3.4 million in 2019. [3]
USL Youth contains the youth academies of Major League Soccer, United Soccer League, and Premier Development League clubs. USL Youth operates the following age groups for boys and girls: U-12, U-13, U-14, U-15, U-16/17, U-18/19. From 2006 to 2015, the oldest age group was branded as the Super-20 League. The league was known as the Super Y ...
The Premier League in England is known for having a large youth league attached to its senior clubs. In the forthcoming season the A-League in Australia will begin its own youth league. [12] Youth leagues are not just exclusive to football (soccer).