The Long Island Junior Soccer League announced today plans to expand the League’s slate of competitions with a summer tournament. Liberty Cup Long Island, presented by LIJSL, will kick off on July 26-27 at Brentwood Soccer Park.
“We are confident that the Liberty Cup will become a mainstay of the Long Island Soccer Calendar,” LIJSL President Andrew Seabury said.
The event will be for the U9–U12 (2016-2013) age groups with brackets for both boys and girls. The competition will have a guarantee of three games and the ability to reach a final. All games will be 50 minutes long as the U9-U10 age groups compete 7v7, while U11-U12 competes 9v9.
“We’re continuously looking for initiatives for our LIJSL clubs and players,” LIJSL Sporting Director John Fitzgerald said. “The Liberty Cup was a top-flight event that we ran in the past, and in its return is one such initiative. We’re excited to host this local competition, and also hope to attract teams from beyond Long Island.”
The upcoming tournament is a reimagining of the League’s historical summer event that was eventually named the Liberty Cup in the 1990s and featured competing teams from around the United States and internationally. Two sister international events were later held with Liberty Cup Moscow and Liberty Cup Ireland.
Along with bolstering League-wide programming to benefit all membership, the tournament provides a local platform for the LIJSL Academy East and West programs to showcase each teams’ hard work over the coming months.
“I’m excited to be part of bringing the Liberty Cup back to Long Island,” LIJSL Technical Director Ronan Wiseman said. “It will provide our Academy East and West teams with a great opportunity for some good competition close to home and it will reestablish the tournament we first started back in the 90s.”
Registration for the tournament is open now and interested teams can apply here.
For more information, visit our tournament landing page here or contact [email protected].