{"id":15396,"date":"2022-06-23T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:54:25","slug":"minnesota-npl-qualifiers-aim-high-at-2022-npl-playoffs-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/minnesota-npl-qualifiers-aim-high-at-2022-npl-playoffs-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota NPL qualifiers aim high at 2022 NPL Playoffs, Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15396\" class=\"elementor elementor-15396\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1896303 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1896303\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3bc7ff3\" data-id=\"3bc7ff3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df3f0a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"df3f0a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Minnesota NPL qualifiers aim high at 2022 NPL Playoffs, Finals<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2dff873 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2dff873\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9a1d9e3\" data-id=\"9a1d9e3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fd8317 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fd8317\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 23, 2022)<\/strong> \u2013 The Minnesota NPL has qualified its top boys and girls teams to the 2022 NPL West Playoffs and NPL Finals. In total, 12 teams earned slots to the national postseason after a challenging regular season competing at the top level of the Twin Cities Soccer Leagues.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minnesota NPL first joined the National Premier Leagues platform in 2018 as a girls-only league. Since then, it has experienced remarkable growth \u2013 now servicing U-13 through U-19 boys and girls clubs \u2013 and has prepared numerous teams that annually contend within the National Premier Leagues postseason against other qualifiers across the country.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minnesota Thunder Academy won four division titles, while Lakeville SC was close behind, winning three. St. Croix Academy claimed a pair of age groups.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b154396 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b154396\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b900712\" data-id=\"b900712\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb08f6e\" data-id=\"cb08f6e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb20e70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"eb20e70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota NPL qualifiers aim high at 2022 NPL Playoffs &amp; Finals \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tnaaLpvUr2\">https:\/\/t.co\/tnaaLpvUr2<\/a><br><br>In total, 12 teams earned slots to the national postseason after a challenging regular season competing at the top level of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tcslsoccer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tcslsoccer<\/a>. \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NPLfinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NPLfinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NPLplayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NPLplayoffs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9lTkIqgUkI\">pic.twitter.com\/9lTkIqgUkI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Premier Leagues (@USClubSoccerNPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USClubSoccerNPL\/status\/1540060479929851910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a11d9d0\" data-id=\"a11d9d0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-006581d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"006581d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e2a449f\" data-id=\"e2a449f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6a1674 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e6a1674\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The six qualifying girls teams will head directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/npl-finals\/\">2022 NPL Finals<\/a>, July 7-11 at DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods Park in Denver, CO. The U-14 through U-17 boys qualifiers face a two-stage competition, next competing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/npl-west-playoffs\/\">NPL Boys West Playoffs<\/a> with ultimate aspirations of the NPL Finals. The U-13 boys will see their postseason end at NPL West Playoffs, where a champion is crowned. The U-18\/19 boys division is a single-stage competition, as well, with that qualifier competing at the NPL Finals.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota NPL qualifiers aim high at 2022 NPL Playoffs, Finals CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 23, 2022) \u2013 The Minnesota NPL has qualified its top boys and girls teams to the 2022 NPL West Playoffs and NPL Finals. In total, 12 teams<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/minnesota-npl-qualifiers-aim-high-at-2022-npl-playoffs-finals\/\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,32,77],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","category-npl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}