Soccer Maine’s most popular league is the Fall Classic League, which features boys and girls divisions in age groups from U-8 through U-14.
Classic Clubs should complete their affiliation form for the 26/27 year by July 1st and have all teams registered in the Fall Classic League by July 15th. Players should be registered in their club accounts and on their respective teams by August 1st. Players can be added after this date and prior to roster freeze of August 9th for U11 through U14 teams, and August 16th for U8 through U10 teams, but rosters should be substantially complete prior to that. Teams will play in their appropriate age division. A team cannot play up an age group in their entirety in the Fall Classic League. Individual players can play up as long as the club allows it.
Play will begin on Sunday, August 23rd for U11s through U14s, with 6-8 league games depending on the age group, and ending with preliminary playoffs for all U12 through U14 teams on October 17th-18th, followed by semi-finals on October 25th, and finals on November 1st.
Preliminary playoff brackets will be posted by midday on October 9th.
Play will begin on Sunday, August 30th, for U8 through U10 teams, with 6 league games, and ending with the U9/U10 Festivals Oct. 24th-25th. If a team is part of a bracket with an uneven number of teams, they would have a bye date, and a Saturday play date.
Festival schedules will be posted by end of day on October 10th.
The 2026 Fall Classic Handbook will be located on the Fall Handbook page soon. All information is in the Handbook – please read.
- Points of Emphasis:
- U12 is transitional competitive – no divisions for regular season play, but will have playoffs. Multiple U12 teams from clubs split evenly.
- Fees are due with team submission on July 15th. Additional player fees are due by Augu.st 1st.
- Coaches must have their official roster in hand for all games to present to the referee.
- If you have enough U8 players, they should be placed on a team together, ditto for U9, U10, etc. You cannot combine age groups so that
- players in a certain age group can all play up.
- All U11 teams will play an 8-game schedule this year instead of round robins at the end of the season.
- All U8/U9 and U10 teams are expected to play in the end-of season festivals on 10/24-25. This is their end-of-season event!
- Teams must have players of appropriate age on teams, i.e. no full team play ups).
- Absolutely no jewelry of any kind (necklaces, bracelets, rings, leather bands, rubber bands). Tape to cover jewelry is not permitted. This is a long-time hard and fast policy for all soccer. Please do not make the referees’ job harder by not enforcing this with your players.
Fall Classic League Schedule
Play will commence on August 23rd for U11 through U14 teams.
Play will commence on August 30th for U8 through U10 teams.
- Playoffs will follow the regular season league schedule taking place on October 17th & 18th. All U12 and up teams are part of playoffs.
- Schedules will be done by the host club/team hosting that bracket. Teams will be contacted by the host club/team. Once schedules are done by the host club, Soccer Maine will work to get those games into the Got Sport schedule.
- Semi-finals are currently slated for October 25th.
- Finals will be November 1st.
- Festivals (for U8 through U10 teams) will take place on October 24th & 25th in Bath, ME and Sanford, ME.
- See the Fall Classic Travel League page for all other policies and news.
Score reporting for the Fall Classic League will be recorded online through your smart phone or computer. Home Teams – please follow these instructions to make sure all scores are accurately reported. Scores need to be entered no more than 24 hours after the game has finished. Scores not entered are considered forfeits for the home team. Teams that do not comply with score recording will not be eligible for league finals.
After the game has finished – go to GotSport, using a smart phone or other mobile device, and look for the Scoring Entry link in the upper right corner.
- Enter your PIN: 2026
- Enter your game number and click GO. You don’t need the event ID. If you try to access the schedule in another way, you may need it. It is 0823 ME.
- Click on the “H” box (Home) and enter scores for both teams, then press SAVE.
- Game scores not entered will result in a forfeit for the home team. Teams that do not enter game scores will not be eligible for league finals. Repeated violations of score reporting will result in removal from the League.
Fall Classic League Scheduling Instructions
SCHEDULING LEAGUE GAMES FROM YOUR GOTSPORT CLUB ACCOUNT
- From your Club account, go to Venues in the left-hand menu. You can search for an existing venue here or add a new one.
- If another club uses a venue, but has not publicly shared that field with Soccer Maine, you would need to enter it for your club here by clicking the blue Add Venue button over to the right. Fill out all information and click Search. The system will search to see if another club has the field set up and it will allow you to connect to it. If it again states that the field is not in the system, then you would click Add New Venue, and fill out the name and address of the venue. You must also choose a time zone (Eastern – US & Canada).
- If you want your venue to be unlisted (not visible to other club), be sure to click the box under the map, then click the blue “Create Organizational Venue” at the bottom of the page.
- You will then need to create the field(s) at the Venue. Click on Fields at the top of the page and the blue “New Field” button over the right. Fill out the pertinent information and click “Save” at the bottom. You will now have that field available to schedule on in your club account. You will now have that field available to schedule on in your club account. To schedule games, simply go to Scheduling in the left-hand menu.
- Below Scheduling, choose “As Participant”. All leagues that you have active teams in will appear.
- Click the blue “Self-Scheduling” button.
- Find the day in the calendar over to the right that your games are on and click on that date.
- Below the grid will be all of your unscheduled games for that date. You then drag and drop them into the appropriate time slot for the field you are scheduling on.
2025 Fall Classic League Championships – Winners & Runners-up
2024 Fall Classic League Championships – Winners & Runners-up
2023 Fall Classic League Championships – Winners & Runners-up