National Premier League (NPL)

The National Premier League (NPL) is a national competition platform created to elevate and change the competitive youth soccer landscape by:

• Extending developmental principles espoused by U.S. Soccer into more age groups and clubs
• Linking competition with player development and identification platforms
• Providing meaningful weekly competition culminating in the NPL Finals
• NPLs are leagues unified under one national competition platform and based on common technical framework. More specifically, the NPL provides a platform:
  • focused on long-term player development
  • for the country’s top soccer clubs, allowing consistent, meaningful high-level games appropriately scheduled with higher training-to-game rations and eliminating calendar congestion
  • integrated with the id² Program, which includes Player Development Programs (PDPs) in select local markets, and that works closely with U.S. Soccer staff regarding player identification, and player and coach development
  • designed and structured by the clubs, based on the needs of the clubs
  • that provides an avenue for qualification for the NPL Finals and Elite National Premier League