National Adult League

National Adult Leagues

Country	United States Puerto Rico
Confederation	CONCACAF
Founded	2002
Divisions	11
Number of teams	5
Level on pyramid	5
Promotion to	None
Relegation to	None
Domestic cup(s)	Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup CFU Club Championship
Current champions	Miami Dade FC^[1] (2013)
Website	NAL website
2014 NAL season

The National Adult League (NAL) is an American amateur soccer league.

The league is officially affiliated with the US Club Soccer (US Club Soccer), and qualifies for the U.S. Open Cup through US Club Soccer channels.

Competition format

The National Adult Leagues is divided into conferences (Northeast, South, Midwest and West). Each Region contains between three or four conferences with varying number of teams per conference. The four regions generally correspond with the four US Soccer association, Northeast (Region I), Midwest (Region II), South (Region III) and West (Region IV). The regular season runs from May through July.^[2] Most conferences play between ten and twelve games against teams within the conference. When possible, each conference follows a double round robin format allowing for a balanced schedule. However, Larger conferences have had unbalanced schedules, given the constraints around scheduling games within its short window. The schedule is designed to allow college students to compete during their summer break. For the playoffs, the formats vary by region and conference with the four region champions facing each other in the National Semifinals and Championship games.

Organization

The NAL is organized in a mostly decentralized structure and is managed as a team-run league. Each year, the member clubs help elect a Commissioner, Treasurer and Secretary and a Board of Directors. Each team is individually owned and operated, and is responsible for maintaining league minimum standards. New teams seeking membership into the NAL are subject to approval from an executive committee of existing team owners. Member clubs have the right to make localized decisions for their respective markets, conferences and regions based on what they believe is best for their particular region.

The current Commissioner is Mark Shearer. Each conference is managed by the individual member clubs and elect a conference commission each year.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	Founded	First Season	Head Coach
Florida Region
South Florida Conference
A.C. Brickell	Miami, FL	Tropical Park	2014	2014	Simone Ghirlanda
Miami Dade FC	Miami, FL	St. Thomas University (Florida)	2014	2014	Joao Garcia
Miami Nacional S.C.	Miami, FL			2014
Santos USA	Miami, FL	North Miami Athletic Stadium		2014	Robson Manente
South Florida FC	Pembroke Pines, FL	Broward College		2014

References

↑ Champions NAL, retrieved 2014-02-13
↑ http://www.nalne.com/schedules/2013/58259651.html

External links

Soccer in the United States

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Cup competitions	Open Cup National Amateur Cup Women's Cup

Men's college soccer	NCAA Division I NCAA Division II NCAA Division III NAIA Championship

Women's national teams	Senior U23 U20 U17

Women's leagues	NWSL WPSL UWS

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Defunct men's outdoor leagues	AFA (1884–1924) American Cup (1885–1924) ALPF (1894) NAFL (1895–98) AAFA Cup (1912–13) ASL (1921–33) ASL (1933–83) NASFL (1946–47) USA (1967) NPSL (1967) NASL (1968–84) USL (1984–85) LSSA (1987–92) ASL (1988–89) WSA (1989) USL 2nd (1990–2010) A-League (1995–2004) USL 1st (2005–10) D2 Pro League (2010)

Defunct men's indoor leagues	NASL (1975–76, 1979–84) MISL (1978–92) NPSL (1984–2001) CISL (1993–97) EISL (1997–98) WISL (1998–2001) AISL (2003–08) MISL (2001–08) XSL (2008–09) AISL (2003–08) MISL (2008–14)

Defunct women's leagues	WUSA (2000–03) WPS (2007–12) WPSL Elite (2012–13) W-League (1995–2015)

Fourth level association football leagues of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)

North America	Canada PCSL PDL¹ Mexico United States NPSL PDL¹

Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

Caribbean⁵	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Barbados Bermuda¹ British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Grenada Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten³ Suriname² Turks and Caicos Islands

1: Canada and the United States share one fourth league, the PDL. 2: North American member but affiliated to CFU. 3: South American member but affiliated to CONCACAF and to CFU. 4:Full CONCACAF member, but not affiliated to FIFA. 5: Unlisted CFU nations do not contain a fourth league.

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