2024 SMSL Fall League Formation and Timeline

• 2024 SMSL Fall season registration is now open in the Stack system.
  
• Club Registrars can begin forming in the Stack system on or about July 22.
• The SMSL Fall Season League Team deadline is on or about August 8.
• Schedules will be formed thereafter, with a one-week rescheduling window starting around August 20.
• The Fall season kicks off the weekend after Labor Day (Saturday September 7) and will runs for the next five or six weeks, depending on customized reschedules.
• Academy Weekends will follow a similar pattern as in 2022 and last fall, with teams (by gender) playing two games in one day at three locations (details being finalized): September 7 or 8, September 21 or 22, and October 6 or 7. To best level opponents, schedules will be aligned between each date.

Initial Fall Schedules
Games in the Fall league will be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays, mornings or afternoons.

Rescheduling
Games can be rescheduled to any agreed day of the week in the Fall.  The Team-to-Team Rescheduling period in preseason when both teams negotiate. In-season rescheduling is only allowed for weather or in the event of emergency circumstances but only when the host club and both teams agree.

Reminder - Spring and Summer League and Team Placement - Promotion and Relegation
For Spring-Summer season, SMSL will form league bracket levels based on a Promotion and Relegation process that will be based on the previous season(s) results. SMSL shall assume a clubs’ team(s) oldest birth year will return to play the next season. For the Spring-Summer season, each age flight with a Division 2 Bracket will have at least six teams to include teams that finished the previous season above 25% in points percentage as well as any teams that are promoted from the Division 3. Division 2 teams that finish with or below 25% points percentage may be relegated depending on the need to have a minimum of six teams per Division 2 Bracket. The need for six teams in a Division 2 Bracket will supersede the total number of teams that are relegated.  Teams from a previous Division 3 season, who finished in the top 25% of their bracket will be “promoted” and placed into the Division 2 bracket.

A quick “Appeals” process, submitted by a club president or designee, will be available for any team to be placed in the other Division (Division 2 or Division 3). Appeals will be decided by a panel of three Directors of Coaching and a representative of the SMSL Office. Appeals, if approved will only be allowed and based on special circumstances effecting a birth year nucleolus of the club. Appeals may be turned down if the result would leave less than six teams in the Division 2 flight.