About the data

What’s covered

MLS NEXT Homegrown and Academy standings and schedules, and ECNL Boys, ECNL Girls, ECNL RL Boys and ECNL RL Girls conference standings, schedules and rosters. Girls Academy and GA Aspire conference standings and schedules are here too, with an unofficial national ranking for each of their ages. ECNL RL (Regional League) tables are kept separate from ECNL tables and rankings. Champions Cup, showcases and Pre-ECNL are not included yet.

The leagues’ own pages stay authoritative: MLS NEXT standings, ECNL Boys, ECNL Girls, ECNL RL Boys, ECNL RL Girls and Girls Academy.

How often it updates

Every table shows when it was last updated. Standings and schedules can update on different days, so a score may appear before the table moves.

Arrows beside a place show movement since the previous weekly snapshot.

How to read the standings

Each conference has its own table, and that table is the page to open for a search like “ECNL Boys U15 Northeast standings.” Place is the order in that conference. Matches is games played. Two teams on the same table may not have played the same number, so a points total can reflect extra games. ECNL, ECNL RL, Girls Academy and GA Aspire place teams by points per game (PPG), points divided by games played, so their tables show PPG next to points.

Where points are shown, a win is 3 and a tie is 1. An arrow next to a place is the change since the previous weekly snapshot. Open a club name for that team’s schedule, results and field.

These addresses stay on the current season. The season name is on the page, and the last update time is beside each table; a table that hasn’t updated for more than a day says so. If a place, record or points total isn’t available, the page shows a dash (—) instead of filling in zero.

Official places and calculated comparisons

On U15 and older tables, place is the official league position. Sorting a table changes the order on screen, never that official place.

MLS NEXT ranks U13 and U14 on Quality of Play: an attack score, a defense score, and an overall score. Until a conference has Quality of Play scores, this site counts wins, losses and ties from completed games in that competition, with 3 points for a win and 1 for a tie, and orders the table by points per game. That table is labeled “From scores.” How U13 and U14 are ranked and reach MLS NEXT Cup.

When a Quality of Play score appears, that conference switches to the official place. The win-loss line stays on the table, calculated from completed games.

The Top Table, the weekly national ranking, is a separate comparison across conferences. It is not a league table. How the rating works.

The Top Table: national rankings

The Top Table is Table & Pitch’s unofficial weekly national ranking for MLS NEXT, ECNL, Girls Academy and GA Aspire. There is one board for each age and level, comparing every conference in that competition. It is not the league’s official order, and it is not a national ranking published by the league. A new one is released every Tuesday at 8 PM Eastern and stays frozen until the next. The top 25 teams hold a seat, and places 26–35 are at the door. Every past week stays on its own page.

A team needs 5 games to earn a seat. The rating is 70% points per game, 20% the average points per game of opponents already played, and 10% goal difference per game, capped at ±1.5. Teams that show the same rating share a place, and the next place skips. Each board’s Week 1 comes out the first Tuesday that 25 of its teams have played 5 games; until then its page shows how many teams have qualified and a provisional live order, with no seats or medals. Once an MLS NEXT U13 or U14 age has Quality of Play scores, that Top Table follows them instead of the points rating. Girls Academy and GA Aspire use the points rating at every age. Quality of Play does not apply to those leagues.

All boys and all girls list the top 100 squads at one age across the boys’ leagues and across the girls’ leagues. Each age has its own board, U13 through U17 and U19. ECNL’s U18/19 teams are compared on the U19 board. The same rating is used, plus a fixed league-strength offset. That offset is Table & Pitch’s judgment about which division plays a stronger daily schedule, not a result measured from games between leagues. Boys and girls are never combined. U13 and U14 MLS NEXT teams that only have a Quality of Play score, and no points-per-game rating, stay off those boys boards.

Between releases the order keeps changing as results come in. Plus members can see that live projection, with each team’s move since Tuesday. The Top Table is independent and unofficial. It isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by MLS NEXT, ECNL or Girls Academy.

Tournaments

Tournament games cover the MLS NEXT events: MLS NEXT Fest, Generation adidas Cup, MLS NEXT Flex and MLS NEXT Cup. Kickoffs are local to the venue. Games are matched to club pages by club name, so some visiting or all-star sides won’t match. ECNL national events aren’t included yet.

Kickoff times

MLS NEXT kickoffs are shown in your own timezone. ECNL kickoff times don’t include a timezone; when a conference sits inside one timezone (for example Texas or New England) the zone is shown and calendar exports use it. For conferences that cross zones, the clock time is shown without a zone. A midnight ECNL kickoff means the time isn’t set yet, so it becomes an all-day calendar entry.

Each team page has a calendar feed. Subscribe once and your calendar app refreshes it, so time and field changes appear without re-downloading. Each app refreshes on its own schedule, and Google Calendar can take up to a day, so check the team page on game day.

Your saved teams

Saved teams stay on your device, and you don’t need an account. Use “Share my teams” on the home page to send the same list to another phone. Plus members’ teams sync to their account on every device.