At the start of the Fall 2016 season EPYSA announced they were fully adopting the US Soccer player development initiative. The player development initiative includes specific rules for younger age groups that are implemented with the use of small sided games.
The new rules are broken down as:
- 4v4 (U6 and U8 Programs)
- 7v7 (U9 and U10 Programs)
- 9v9 (U11 and U12 Programs)