Meckelnburgh Minor-League Soccer

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Minor-League Soccer
Countries Meckelnburgh Meckelnburgh
Confederation AEFA
Founded 2020 CE
First season 2020
Number of teams 24
Levels on pyramid 2
Website minor.soccer.mb
2022 Season

The Meckelnburgh Professional Development Soccer League (MPDSL; Alexandrian: Ligue du Meckelmbourg de football de formation professionnelle; Aspiranto: Mekelnburga Profesitrejnada Futbalo-Ligo), branded as Minor-League Soccer, is the semi-professional training association football league sanctioned in Meckelnburgh, operated by the Royal Meckelnburgh Soccer Federation. It represents the sport's incoming generation of professional players for Meckelnburgh Pro-League Soccer. The league has 24 coed teams across two divisions, 12 in Division A and 12 in Division B.

Minor-League Soccer was organized in 2021 CE as the academy and reserve league for professional Meckelnish soccer. Unlike most soccer leagues on Micras, Minor-League Soccer follows the same fixed membership of professional, locally owned teams as Pro-League Soccer. Each team in Minor-League Soccer is affiliated with a Pro-League Soccer team, and serves as that team's academy and reserve team.

History

Meckelnburgh Minor-League Soccer began in 2020 CE in the Meckelnburgh United Soccer League as the U-21 Division. The division intended to be the unified league of competitive soccer in the kingdom for semi-professional youth. Funding for two semi-professional teams was allocated for the first season in 2020 CE. Due to the league's small size, only four games were organized between the two teams, with a final championship match at the season's end. For 2021 CE, the U-21 Division of MUSL reached a size of 8 teams, the season followed a double round-robin format, and the top two performing teams faced off for the Dauphin Cup.

Following the performance of the Meckelnburgh national football team in the 2021 FMF World Cup, popular interest demanded the Royal Meckelnburgh Soccer Federation expand the kingdom's ability to discover and train new talent for both Pro-League Soccer and the national team. An entire academy and reserve league was thus spun off from the U-21 Division of the MUSL as Minor-League Soccer. In the first season of Minor-League Soccer, the league reached its final 24 total teams, tripling in size.