This weekend, EDP Cup Spring Showcase 2024 will be hosted in conjunction with the 2024 US Youth Soccer ODP East Tournament creating a special recruiting opportunity for college coaches of all levels. The ODP Tournament will bring together top players from across the East Region’s State Associations, giving them the opportunity to be identified for the Regional Team, while the EDP Showcase brings in top teams from the East Coast to put their talents on display. It will feature over 225 teams from more than 125 clubs coming from Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The EDP Cup Spring Showcase will take place at both Tuckahoe Turf Farms and Green Branch Park, and the ODP Tournament will take place at Tuckahoe Turf Farms and Classics Park.
Feature Brackets in the EDP Cup Spring Showcase include:
17U Girls
The 17U Girls Diamond Bracket sees teams from the Girls Academy, National Academy League, USYS National League, and Internationally, and features the top two ranked teams in the nation. Reading Rage Press is ranked number one in the nation and recently won the PA State Cup, and NJ Surf South Shore 07G enters the event ranked number two in the nation. Those two top teams and Girls Academy League’s Sporting Athletic Club 07G GA will take on the NJ State Champions STA MOSC 07G GA NAL, NJ State Cup Semi-Finalists NJ Premier G2007, and international side SC Toronto Eagles.
17U Boys
The 17U Boys Platinum Bracket will feature Schulz Academy 2007 from Florida, the club who famously produced US Soccer Star Jozy Altidore, and participates in the USYS National League Sunshine Conference. Also, highlighting the bracket is one of NJ’s top-ranked teams SJEB FC 07B ECNL RL, who is currently ranked number 23 in the nation. Union County FC Sampdoria has had a strong showing in the Premier I Division of the USYS National League Mid Atlantic Conference this Spring, and Soccer Stars United Gravity joins from the North Atlantic Conference. Rounding out the bracket is the always strong PDA Hibernian Scholes 2007, and Jersey Shore BOCA Jr FC 07.
Full schedules for each event can be viewed using these links: