Travel Coordinators can now go to the League Registration tab and access the 2020 Team Registration Data Form to provide the League with the information needed to properly place teams in divisions for the upcoming season.

Please go to the "Referee" tab for important news on becoming a Referee!

An announcement was made at the Annual General Meeting on September 30, 2019 that the League would be adopting a standard naming convention for all teams for the 2020 Play Season. The conventions is as follows:

Club Name, Club Nickname, Birth Year, Gender, Descriptor

For example, if your club is based in the Town of Xanadu and is know as the Xanadu Volcanos, the U12 Boys team would be named as follows:

Xanadu (Club Name), Volcanos (Club Nickname), 2008 (Birth Year), B (Gender-Boys), Lava Rocks (Descriptor)

                                                     Xanadu Volcanos 2008B Lava Rocks

If you have already entered your teams in RosterPro with NYSWYSA and they do not match this format, please go back in an modify the team names. Thank you for your cooperation!

The Board of Directors petitioned the New York State West Youth Soccer Association to consider a modification to the USYSA Player Development Intitiatives with respect to roster sizes. The League's request was granted and beginning with the 2020 Play Year the following limits will be in effect:

U8-U10           Team Roster 16           Game Day Roster 13

U11-U12         Team Roster 18           Game Day Roster 16

U13-U19         Team Roster 22           Game Day Roster 18

The B&WNYJSL Board of Directors hopes that the increased team roster sizes at U8 through U12 will give clubs the flexibility they need in properly forming competitive teams with an eye to future needs. If you have any questions please contact League administration.

Congratulations!

As President of your youth soccer league,  you have been selected

as an invitee to the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation and

Project Play Western New York Community Conversations 2019:

Building Stronger Youth Soccer Leagues.

BWNYJSL has partnered with Project Play WNY to offer member clubs a voice and an opportunity to be involved in a first of its kind initiative in WNY. This initiative is focused on building the organizational capacity to support high-quality youth sports organizations. The BWNYJSL/PPWNY capacity building initiative is free, and mini-grants will be awarded to leagues that participate. 

You are probably most familiar with Project Play Western New York through our recent “Don’t Retire Kid” campaign. But our organization is not just raising awareness of the 84% of WNY children who don’t get enough activity, we envision a community in which all children have the opportunity to be active through sport! That means not only building awareness, but also providing the guidance and training necessary to develop the infrastructure, resources, and leadership to create vibrant and sustainable youth sports organizations.

On Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 pm at the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo we will begin this conversation. We hope to gain your input as a leader in your sport and to convey to you the opportunities available through the “Youth Sports Organization, Self-Assessment” pilot. Dinner will be served and free parking is available.

We hope you can join us!  Please register by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please email, ProjectPlayWNY@cfgb.org.

Best,

Bridget Niland

Director of Project Play WNY

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Larkin at Exchange

724 Exchange St, Suite 525

Buffalo, NY 14210

(716) 852-2857 ext. 222 (o)

(716) 472-5951 (c)

@projectplaywny