Soccer District Playoffs

Updated Sunday October 16, 2016 by Mike Cahill.

The St. Charles CYC District Soccer Playoffs are played to determine which of our 5th grade through 8th grade teams will be advancing to the Archdiocesan Soccer Championships.  The format for soccer will be the same in 2016 as it was in 2014 and 2015, with the top two "open" teams from each division and the top two "closed" teams from each division participating in the district playoffs.

2016 St. Charles CYC District Soccer Playoff Information

 

At the completion of the St. Charles CYC regular season soccer games for 5^th grade through 8^th grade teams, a district playoff is held to determine which “open” and “closed” teams from each grade level will be advancing to the Archdiocesan playoffs.

 

Typically, we send one “open” and one “closed” team from each grade level and gender to represent the St. Charles CYC district. Sometimes, we are granted “wildcard” entries, when additional teams are needed to fill out Archdiocesan playoff brackets. Additionally, for 6^th grade, 7^th grade and 8^th grade levels, when the St. Charles CYC district has a team in the previous year’s championship game, we get an additional playoff team entry for that age group. For example, if we had a 5^th grade “open” girls team that was either the Archdiocesan champion or runner-up in the 2015 soccer playoffs, then the St. Charles district would get to send our 2016 6^th grade girls “open” representative and a second 6^th grade “open” representative.

 

In the St. Charles CYC, for 5^th grade through 8^th grade teams, the 1^st and 2^nd place “open” and “closed” teams from each division will play a 1 game district “playoff” game to determine which team will advance to the Archdiocesan playoffs. This game will be scheduled by the District Soccer Chairperson and will be played sometime before November 7^th for the girls teams and sometime before November 14^th for the boys teams.

 

For the high school girls teams, the Junior team and the Juvenile teams with the best record will advance to the Archdiocesan playoffs.

 

To determine what place each team in a division finishes in, we use each team’s won/loss record. We do not use score differentials or head to head results. So, in the case of a tie, for say 2^nd place in a 5^th grade division between two open teams, those two teams would play a tie breaker game to determine which team would then play a game against the 1^st place open team. The winner would then advance to the Archdiocesan playoffs. Again, point differentials do not mean anything and if they could be removed from the standings posted on the website, we would remove them.

 

For the 2016 Archdiocesan playoffs, we have the following slots allotted:

 

5^th Grade girls “closed”

5^th Grade girls “open”

6^th Grade girls “closed”

6^th Grade girls “open”

7^th Grade girls “closed”

7^th Grade girls “closed” extra entry due to having team in 2015 championship game     

7^th Grade girls “open”

7^th Grade girls “open” extra entry due to having team in 2015 championship game

7^th Grade girls “open” extra entry due to having team in 2015 championship game

8^th Grade girls “closed”

8^th Grade girls “open”

Juvenile (9^th and 10^th grade girls)

Junior (11^th and 12^th grade girls)

 

5^th Grade boys “closed”

5^th Grade boys “open”

6^th Grade boys “closed”

6^th Grade boys “open”

7^th Grade boys “closed”

7^th Grade boys “open”

8^th Grade boys “closed”

8^th Grade boys “open”

 

So, in the 7^th grade girls “closed” group, we are sending 2 teams to the Archdiocesan playoffs. In the 7^th grade girls “open” group, we are sending 3 teams to the Archdiocesan playoffs. We would have been able to send an extra 6^th grade girls “closed” team and an extra 6^th grade boys “closed” team, but we only have 1 of each of those type teams in our district. Teams that are marked as "INEL" on the district website are not eligible to particiapte in the playoffs or win their division trophy as they have double rostered players.

 

As we get closer to when the District playoff games will be played, the teams with the potential to be participating will get additional information.

 

 

 

2016 Soccer Playoff Format for St. Charles CYC District