FRISCO, Texas (Sept. 22, 2025) — The game schedule is now available for the first National League Winter Event of the 2025-26 season, which will kick off Oct. 31 in Mesa, Ariz.
Some notes for viewing the schedule on Squadi:
- The game times listed will appear in your current time zone (where you are located at the time of viewing).
- All games take place in the “Arizona” time zone, which changes. It is the Pacific time zone on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. After the clocks adjust in other parts of the country (Arizona DOES NOT change), the game times will be in the Mountain time zone (Nov. 2; Nov. 7-9).
- Please take this into consideration when booking departing flights for after your Sunday games.
Boys teams will compete Oct. 31-Nov. 2, while the girls will play Nov. 7-9. All games will take place at Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, Ariz.
“National League events are always an exciting opportunity to bring together talented players on proven teams, and there’s even more to play for this year,” National League general manager Marc Frankland said. “With advancement to postseason competitions on the line, it will be a great atmosphere full of high-energy games.”
The November event is the first of two winter events for the 2025-26 season, with the second event taking place Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2026, when both the boys and girls will compete.
The winter events feature competition for boys and girls teams that are playing in the 14U, 15U, 16U, 17U and 19U age groups during the 2025-26 youth soccer season. Within each age group, teams are split into groups of four, and each team plays its three group opponents over three days.
Teams that finish in first place in their winter event’s four-team group advance directly to the 2026 US Youth Soccer National Championships, presented by New York Life. In most age groups, top second-place finishers will also advance to the National Championships to round out 10 total qualifiers — from across both winter events — in each age group.
The remaining second-place finishers will advance to The National League Cup Playoffs, with the number of advancing teams dependent on the total number of teams competing in Mesa in each respective age group.
For age groups in which winter event second-place finishers advance to either the National Championships or The National League Cup, the postseason destination for each team will be determined after the January 2026 event is concluded and tiebreakers are calculated.
About The National League: Established in 2007, The National League represents the top league platform in US Youth Soccer and offers both team-based and club-based league formats across the country. National League teams experience high-level localized competition with national connectivity through events and The National League Cup — an annual postseason competition that determines the league’s best team in each age group.