2025 SMSL Spring-Summer League Formation and Timelines
December 20, 2025: Player and Adult Registration for the 2025 SMSL Spring-Summer season is open for member clubs to register players and adults in the SMSL Stack Sports Platform. Make sure your players are registered (insured) prior to any play or practice (including winter). Players who were registered this last fall season are automatically registered for the Spring-Summer season, should they be rostered, do not need to be registered again.
January 1: Forming Your Teams: Club Registrars can begin forming teams in the SMSL Stack Sports Platform on or about January 1. Teams need to be activated and declared for the 2025 season prior to the Team Entry deadline.
January 1-30: Clubs may appeal, or "petition" Division 2 team placement according to the SMSL "Promotion and Relegation" process provided to clubs.
March 6: Team Entry Deadline: The SMSL team deadline to be activated and declared into the league is on Monday, March 6.
March 19: Brackets and initial schedules will be formed and shared by March 19.
March 20: Rescheduling Period: There is a ten-day window starting March 20 when team leaders, with home club facilitation, may reschedule games to any agreed-upon day of the week within the season window ending July 1. This year, we have a hard end date to ensure proper playoff seeding. In-season rescheduling is only allowed for weather, or emergency circumstances and requires agreement from the host club and both teams.
April 26: Games Kickoff: The Spring-Summer Season kickoff is on Saturday, April 26. Initial schedules will be set on weekends prior to Memorial Day. Games after the Memorial Day break will shift to weeknights. Schedules can be customized in the rescheduling period.
July: SMSL Playoff Schedules and MYSA State Championships will be determined soon!
2025 League Formation and Scheduling Details
Initial SMSL games will be scheduled from late April through the end of June. If rescheduled, games can be played earlier. This year, all games, including reschedules, must be completed by the end of the day on July 1st. To determine a Division 3 Champion, playoff games will also be scheduled within the age and flight bracket. These playoff games cannot be rescheduled. In Division 2, where there is only one bracket per league, the Champion will be determined by the regular season final standings.
2025 Game Scheduling Template
SMSL will use the following plan when scheduling games in 2025
In all age brackets 12U and younger, early season games (prior to Memorial Day) will be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays, in the mornings or afternoons. Remaining games (after Memorial Day) will be scheduled on weeknights with one primary evening per week. SMSL will use the following weeknights for the "Primary Day" of the week:
For all age brackets 13U and older, all games will be scheduled on weeknights with one primary evening per week. SMSL will use the following weeknights for the "Primary Day" of the week:
Two Game Weeks
If a second game is scheduled in a week, that game will be on a "Secondary Day" and be scheduled either two days before or two days after the "Primary Day".
Monday Primary - Wednesday Secondary
Tuesday Primary - Thursday Secondary
Wednesday Primary - Monday Secondary
Thursday Primary - Tuesday Secondary
Fall League
Games in the Fall league will be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays, mornings or afternoons.
Team to Team Rescheduling
Games can be rescheduled in the Team to Team Rescheduling period in preseason when both teams negotiate. In-season rescheduling is only allowed for weather or in the event of emergency circumstances but only when the host club and both teams agree.