2017 PDL season


The 2017 USL Premier Development League season is the 23rd season of the PDL. The Michigan Bucks entered the season as the defending champions, but their title defense campaign ended with a loss in the Central Conference semi-finals. On August 5, 2017, the Charlotte Eagles won their first PDL championship by defeating the Thunder Bay Chill 2-1.

Changes from 2016

New Teams

Name Changes

Tiebreakers

  1. Head-to-head results
  2. Goal differential
  3. Goals scored

    Central Conference

Great Lakes Division

Heartland Division

Eastern Conference

Northeast Division

Mid Atlantic Division

South Atlantic Division

Southern Conference

Mid South Division

Southeast Division

Western Conference

Mountain Division

Northwest Division

Southwest Division

Playoffs

Matches in the Divisional Qualification round were held on July 18. Two Eastern Conference play-in matches were played at Amesbury, MA and Whippany, NJ. One Western Conference play-in match was played at Salem, OR.

Conference Championships

The PDL Conference Championships were held over the weekend of July 21–23. Matches were played at: Tucson, AZ ; Statesboro, GA ; Pontiac, MI ; and Clinton, MS. The four conference champions advanced to the PDL semifinals.

PDL Championship

The PDL semifinals were held on July 29, with matches played at Charlotte, NC and Thunder Bay, ON. The PDL Championship Game was held on August 5 in Matthews, NC.

Awards

Eastern Conference

F: Tobenna Uzo *, Brian White *, Joao Costa
M: Ricardo Gomez *, Aaron Molloy *, Martim Galvão
D: Douglas Oliveira, Alex Nelson, Kevin Politz, Daniel Kozma
G: Ben Lundgaard *

Central Conference

F: Ryan Sierakowski, Samuel Gainford, Francis Atuahene
M: Abraham Villon, Amass Amankona, Chris Mueller
D: Mitchell Osmond *, Nick Walker *, Lucas Stauffer, Brandon Fricke
G: Michael Yantz

Western Conference

F: Mark Verso *, Ryosuke Kinoshita, Jose Cuevas
M: Moshe Perez *, Christo Michaelson, Jose Carrera-Garcia
D: Sergi Nus *, Scott DeVoss *, Sho Goto, Wouter Verstraaten
G: Jordan Farr

Southern Conference

F: Mohamed Kourouma, Ricardo Diegues, Julio Moncada
M: Kevin Varela, Willian Hopfner, Angelo Kelly-Rosales
D: Kevin Coiffic, Jonathan Parpeix, Gabriel Torres, Thomas Vancaeyezeele
G: Eric Dick
* denotes All-League player