Norcal Cup Regulations:

Teams must be able to play on the scheduled days (see schedule below)

Teams must be willing to play one game per day either home or away.

Teams must be registered with a US Club Soccer Sanctioned Club - no exceptions!

Teams must be able to provide a field and credentialed referee’s for scheduled days                     

  * Norcal Premier Soccer will provide fields and referee’s for Semi & Final Games.

Norcal Cup Format: Twenty Four Teams
Preliminary Round
Boys - Sunday, September 10th  – One Game
Girls - Sunday, September 17th  – One Game

The top eight teams will receive a bye in September. Teams ranked 9th through 24th will play one game in the preliminary round. Winners will advance to the Qualifying Round. Losers drop into the Silver  Cup.

Qualifying Round  
Boy’s -  Sunday, October 8th,   –  One Game
Girl’s - Sunday, October 15th    –  One Game

The top eight seeded teams will play one game versus the winners from the preliminary round. Winners Advance into the Premier or Gold Cup. Losers drop into Gold or Silver Cup. * the determination to host a Premier Cup wil be made by the NorCal Board based on the strength of the teams registered.

Group Play
Saturday, November 11th - One Game
Sunday,    November 12th - One Game
Saturday, December 2nd     -  One Game

Two groups of four per Premier, Gold and Silver Cup. Each group plays a round robin with one game per day. The top two teams advance to the Semi – Finals. Bottom two drop out of Cup.

Championship Weekend – Semi & Final
December 16 & 17 – Site TBA

Winner of Group 1 plays Second from Group 2 – Winner of Group 2 plays Second Place from Group 1. Winners Advance. Final two teams play on Sunday.

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