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With so much of the region’s top talent competing full-time at the MLS Next level, our CIAC boys preseason best XI offers an opportunity to highlight a group of players that is perhaps overlooked in the modern landscape.
Eight of the players in this story compete at the ECNL level in the spring; … [Read more...]
The Connecticut high school soccer season kicks off in exactly a week. Get back to us if you find out where the summer went.
With the CIAC campaign fast approaching, it’s time to conclude our preseason coverage. On Monday, we released our CIAC girls preseason best XI. On Tuesday, we released our … [Read more...]
A year ago, there was little doubt in my mind about the top three teams in Connecticut as I put together our CIAC girls preseason top 10. Because, ultimately, it looked as if the traditional powers in the state would remain at the top.
But the 2025 season ended with a quite remarkable feat: all four … [Read more...]
Over the past couple of weeks, we've put together best XIs for three of Connecticut's strongest conferences — the FCIAC, CCC, and SCC — as part of our league preview series.
Now it's time to reveal our preseason best XI for the CIAC at large.
Inevitably, many of the players featured in those … [Read more...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — I’d been excited to watch the Next Step preseason event at Mount Saint Charles since I heard about it during the summer. The games don’t count, of course, and many of the teams will have evolved quite a bit by the time the ones that do arrive.
But with the defending NEPSAC Class B … [Read more...]
Earlier this week, we previewed the Founders League boys season, which looks like it’ll be a continuation of that league’s historical standing as the NEPSAC’s power conference.
Now it’s time to cover the league often compared to the Founders — the Independent School League.
Noble & Greenough’s … [Read more...]
The discussion over whether the Founders League or Independent School League is the best in NEPSAC boys soccer is a constant one.
But it’s hard to argue — thanks to Taft, of course — that the Founders League isn’t on top headed into 2026. The last three Class A title games have featured a Founders … [Read more...]
Writing a preview for the Central Connecticut Conference is no easy task. The CIAC’s biggest league, the CCC is jam-packed with teams that have reason to be optimistic headed into the 2026 season.
There are so many, in fact, that some barely got a mention in this story, if any at all, despite … [Read more...]
It’s time for our positional watch list series’ final stop in Connecticut.
The CIAC boys goalkeepers.
It’s a position group that featured plenty of top-end talent a year ago, including Farmington’s Dante Fierro and Xavier’s Andrew Sobieski, who backstopped two of the state’s strongest programs and … [Read more...]
If you’re invested in the English Premier League, there’s a solid chance you spent your Friday morning setting your fantasy lineup for the first matchweek.
So the idea dawned on us — what if we ran a fantasy league for the 2026 New England scholastic soccer season?
Our two writers, Sam Robb O’Hagan … [Read more...]
There’s a good chance that one of Connecticut’s four girls’ soccer state champions will come from the Southern Connecticut Conference.
The SCC, widely regarded as one of the CIAC’s top leagues, is unique in that it has equally strong representation across the state’s four divisions. Since 2019, the … [Read more...]
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