Scottish Ladies’s Soccer is happy to announce a brand new partnership with FirstPoint USA, turning into for the primary time the premier companion of the regional 18 league cup competitions because the Official US Sports activities Scholarship Accomplice of Scottish Ladies’s Soccer.

The transfer will see the cups change names, with the Cross North/East/South East 18s Area League Cup turning into the First Level East League Cup and the Central/West/South West Regional League Cup Cross turning into the First Level West Cup.

The primary kicks off this weekend with the group stage, whereas the second might be a single knockout competitors beginning in just a few weeks. The finals will happen in June.

FirstPoint is a supplier of custom-made scholarship packages and mentorship for younger athletes at America’s high universities. The affiliation will present help to SWF-affiliated gamers in search of such alternatives, together with regional check occasions and preferential service charges.

Commenting, Scottish Ladies’s Soccer CEO Aileen Campbell stated: “Soccer equips younger girls with all types of abilities and experiences that may assist them in later life, but in addition opens up alternatives. The rise of professionalism in Scotland signifies that women can actually dream of careers within the recreation, and there are additionally alternatives to journey and examine overseas, comparable to these provided by FirstPoint USA. That’s the reason I’m delighted to welcome them as a brand new companion giving our regional league cups a better profile and visibility.”

Stuart McCaffrey, director of soccer for FirstPoint USA, stated:

“We’re very excited to be working with Scottish girls’s soccer and sit up for collaborating within the Cups by way of the affiliation. There are implausible alternatives for younger gamers in Scotland to play at a excessive stage in school soccer within the US, whereas finding out for a level and having fun with one of the best of each worlds.

“There are various good examples of gamers who’ve gone to the US on a sports activities scholarship and returned to Scotland and England to play for a few of the greatest groups. The expertise of being a student-athlete within the US can actually improve a participant’s improvement, having personally witnessed firsthand the unbelievable amenities on supply. By working with a few of the greatest school and college coaches in the US, we imagine the affiliation can construct on the wonderful work already being accomplished in Scotland to develop the ladies’s recreation.”