Classic Age Group Policy

Effective Fall 2018, US Soccer (our National Governing Body) adopted a new approach to describing age groups for youth soccer, basing those age groups on the year in which each child was born. MSI believes that it is important to continue facilitating the organization of community-based teams so that most kids may play with their classmates at both the Classic League and Recreational League levels of play.



MSI Classic teams age groups are based upon the US Soccer guidelines, with an important caveat: MSI decided to allow a maximum 6-month birth date allowance to facilitate most “same-grade” players to continue playing with their classmates. We recognize that there will be some players who are even more than 6 months older than the designated age range, yet still in the “same grade”. However, the 6-month extended age allowance is the maximum that will be considered, as it already means that some players will be 18 months older than the youngest players in the age group, and any further exceptions simply lead to more requests for never-ending exceptions for kids who are just a little bit older.

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