National Championship Series
Virginia State Cup

 

It is with real regret that we let you each know that we have made the decision to cancel the State Cup for Spring 2020. We have talked to many teams and clubs and leagues and although everyone wants to have a State Cup season, we have come to the sad conclusion that it is not responsible to make this happen. I'm sure that you also have heard that US Youth Soccer canceled the Regional and National Championships this summer.

Our first start date looked like it would be near the end of June and play would go into July. The late June start date would only give your team a week and perhaps a little more of practice time before you stepped on the field to play some very competitive games. We felt this was a negative for your team.

With our need to keep in mind social distancing, State wide travel around Virginia for our games, the cost to parents that this involves and maybe pushing the players too fast as they come off of a very long break, we just found that it was more than most teams and parents could handle. We really tried to find a way to make it work for you, but now find it is best for everyone to cancel.

We will return 90% of your application fee. VYSA looked at the items of overhead and money already spent for the Spring season to come up with this amount. The money will be mailed back by check to the team representative who used their credit card to apply. Refunding the credit card directly was not an option at this time with Affinity. We will begin the refund process during the next week and you should see the check in the mail in the next several weeks.

We will begin making plans for the 2020-2021 State Cup season this summer with the applications for Fall Cup due in late August. Our U14 teams who didn't have a Spring season will have a Fall season this year as U15 teams. The U12 and U13 teams will be able to apply again for Spring play in 2021. We hope to see each of you back again with us for the new season.

Our best wishes for your health and safety. We want to see everyone back to play as soon as possible.

Anne and Cathy

Anne Thompson State Cup Director
Cathy Mann State Cup Chairman

SPRING SCHEDULE

The schedule for the Spring is under Calendar on the VYSA Web page under State Cup. Please take a look at the play dates for the Spring Cup season. One thing to notice is the later start date for Cup this Spring. The first play date will be Saturday, April 18.  All teams will not play on every date on the calendar, but all teams should know that their team can be scheduled on any play date.  

ELIGIBILITY

Any team of a member of VYSA and participating in a recognized league and properly registered (having an official VYSA State Cup roster and US Youth Soccer player passes), is eligible to enter any one age group corresponding to the age of the oldest player on its roster. The eligible leagues include all VYSA member leagues and additionally the US Youth Soccer EDP and EDP conference leagues both team and club leagues.

There will be the one freeze date for all rosters in the Spring Cup competition for U12, U13, and U14 age groups. All players who are eligible for any level of the competition in the National Championship Series must have been rostered to your club by the appropriate freeze date for their age group. For Spring 2020Cup this freeze date is midnight on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. At the 48 hour freeze deadline, those players who are on the frozen roster are the only players eligible to compete in the State Cup portion of the National Championship Series.

If a player is registered on a VYSA State Cup team 48 hours prior to the first State Cup game, the player may not compete in another State Cup for any other team during the seasonal year (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31). A team may have no more than five transferred players on its VYSA State Cup roster. A team may compete in only one State Cup competition during a seasonal year.

AGE GROUPS FOR Spring 2020 COMPETITION

U12, January 1,2008 and younger State and Regional Competition

U13, January 1, 2007 and younger State, Regional and National Competition

U14, January 1, 2006 and younger State, Regional and National Competition

RULES OF THE COMPETITION

The Virginia State Championship Policies and the National Championship Series Policies are on the VYSA Web Site. It is the responsibility of the team to access these rules and become familiar with them. The NCS policies may be modified by the VYSA State Championship Policies.

You must go to the State Cup Rules to be aware of the rules as you apply for State Cup.

COMMUNICATION

In order to keep all teams up to date on game schedules, results and sometimes changes to fields and times, it is very important for each team to provide a primary contact and an email address. During the competition, the administrative information will be distributed by email. The game schedules and game results will be available on the VYSA Web Site.

VYSA has a Web Site for your convenience and information. All of the State Cup forms, all US Soccer Connect rostering and scoring directions, the 2019-2020 seasonal Year Cup Calendar and the VYSA State Cup Rules are available. The web address is www.vysa.com.