Good evening,

Please see below and attached for information relating to the DSL Fall 25' Soccer Season, its a long email, but the information contained within is important so please read to completion.

Schedules:

For those that have coached before in the league, the format of the Schedules and Coaches' Contact List should be familiar.   I've attached both in Excel formats, let me know if anyone has trouble opening them.  In both documents, there is a tab for each of the following brackets:

· First Grade

· Second Grade

· First/Second Grade

· Third Grade

· Fourth Grade

· Third/Fourth Grade

· Girls JV/V 

· MLS (7's JV/V bracket)

· Premier (11's JV/V bracket)

Home teams are listed first and are in blue, Away teams are listed second and are in yellow – if something doesn't look right let me know, it may be a typo or I should be able to explain it.    For those that are new to coaching and are having trouble understanding the schedule, check with your coordinator, AD or a seasoned coach and they should be able to explain it.  If you still can't make sense of it, reach out to me and I can walk you through it.  Home game days, times and locations are listed for each school and if you are the away team refer to the hosting teams information rows for those details, unless the cell for your game contains a different time or location, then refer to that specific time/location.  Note, we generally conformed to time requests but in some instances modified them slightly to allow for the increasing loss of daylight throughout the season and/or to make referee coverage easier to provide.  Generally speaking, each JV/V team plays 8 games and each developmental team plays 7.  In developmental brackets that have an odd amount of teams, one randomly selecting team has an 8th game to make sure that all teams get at least 7 because of, well, math.  

The attached schedule reflects our best efforts to accommodate all of the requests that we received.  If something changed from the date that you submitted your registration or I was not able to accommodate the request that you made, you will need to reach out to the opposing team to coordinate a new game time, please include me on those emails.  Note, in some instances at the developmental level we have schools with multiple teams playing one another on a black out date with the understanding that the school will play that game amongst its two teams on a date that makes sense for them.   Also, home teams must remember to include me on emails that update game information, and with respect to JV/Varsity matches and developmental matches that PIAA refs are utilized, they must include our referee coordinator, Chuck Pruss, who is cc'd here.  Home Teams, please communicate issues as they are discovered with ample time and consideration provided to all involved.  Away teams please be understanding and as flexible as you can when home teams reach out