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 will need to affiliate for the 25/26 year by July 14th 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 15th for U12 through U14 teams, and August 29th for U8 through U11 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 24th for U12 through U14s, with 6 league games, and ending with preliminary playoffs on October 18th-19th, followed by semi-finals on October 26th, and finals on November 2nd. Play will begin on Sunday, September 7th, for U8 through U11 teams, with 6 league games, and ending with the U9/U10 Festivals and U11 Round robins on Oct. 25th-26th. 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.
The 2025 Fall Classic Handbook is coming soon!
- 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 August 10th.
- Coaches must have their official roster in hand for all games to present to the referee.
- All U8/U9, U10 & U11 teams are expected to play in the end-of season festivals and round robins on 10/25-26. 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.
General Information
U14: Birthdates between August 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012
U13: Birthdates between August 1, 2012 and July 31, 2013
U12: Birthdates between August 1, 2013 and July 31, 2014
U11: Birthdates between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015
U10: Birthdates between August 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016
U09: Birthdates between August 1, 2016, and July 31, 2017
U08: Birthdates between August 1, 2017, and July 31, 2018
No players beyond the birthdate of July 31, 2018. Players can be younger than a particular age group range, but never older than a particular age group range to be on a team in that age group.
Please note that per FIFA Laws, 7 players constitute a team for play.
Playoffs will begin on Saturday, October 18th, with semi-finals on Sunday October 26th, and finals being held on Sunday, November 2nd.
Preliminary playoff schedules are created by the club hosting your team and are sent to the team coaches. We will also do our best to get those games into the on-line schedule once the hosts have them scheduled on their end.
The U8/U9/U10 Festivals will take place on October 25th and 26th in locations to be announced. Schedules are created by the host site. All teams will have correspondence from the host site.
U11 Round robins will take place on October 25th and 26th around the state.
Click here for Festival information. Click here to view the U9/U10 & U11 Festival Schedules on the Fall Classic League Schedule page.
Fall Classic League Schedule
Play will commence on August 24th for U12 through U14 teams.
Play will commence on September 7th for U8 through U11 teams.
- Playoffs will follow the regular season league schedule taking place on October 18th & 19th. All playoff games will be added to the 2025 Schedule.
- Semi-finals are currently slated for October 26th.
- Finals will be November 2nd.
- Festivals (for U8 through U10 teams) will take place on October 25th & 26th.
- U11 teams will play round robins on October 25th & 26th.
- 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 https://system.gotsport.com, using a smart phone or other mobile device, and look for the Scoring Entry link in the upper right corner.
- Enter your EVENT ID: ME0824 PIN: 2025
- Enter your game number and click GO.
- 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.
2024 Fall Classic League Championships – Winners & Runners-up
2023 Fall Classic League Championships – Winners & Runners-up