Just a few years ago, there was a very large gap between Upper House and the select soccer “travel” leagues on the peninsula, Redwood League and Abronzino League.
Since then, the peninsula leagues merged into CCSL. Last year, Bronze divisions became numerous in CCSL Coast, and this year, there are both Bronze North and Copper North divisions in every age group, with teams from South San Francisco, San Bruno, Burlingame, and San Carlos.
Meanwhile, Upper House teams have gained strength and number, and many of them have significant tournament experience around Northern California, including against CCSL Coast teams. Upper House teams have also learned to play away games in South San Francisco and in Marin, and they have not found it inconvenient.
Upper House thrived partly because, over the last several years, SF Rec & Park allowed very few teams to play outside the city. SF Rec & Park is now lifting its restriction on teams traveling. At this point, we believe, it makes sense to give up our independence and merge Upper House into CCSL as well. What we gain is the assurance that teams will always have good competition. Starting in Fall 2012, the plan is for San Francisco competitive teams to be seeded and placed into CCSL’s brackets, usually a North bracket in Bronze or Copper.
Historically, “travel” meant driving down the peninsula, sometimes quite far. We don’t expect this to be the case for most teams. A prototypical CCSL bracket has six teams, which would play the five other opponents both home and away. So you already have half your games at home. If you are in a North bracket with two other SF teams, then that would be two more “away” games in SF as well. Your remaining three away games would be with North opponents on the upper peninsula. Stronger teams that advance to more elite brackets would still face long-distance travel for away games, if they are the only SF team in that bracket.
In short, for the vast majority of teams, playing in CCSL won’t be much different for you than it is now, as long as there are other SF teams in the bracket with you.
At the end of a season, teams can be promoted or relegated.
We will be testing scheduling/field assignments with CCSL in the spring because our goal is for San Francisco fields to be used at maximum capacity.
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