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Does anyone know which club is hosting State Cup this year?
Thanks

You would think with all the info on the SCYSA website, that would be an easy one. But it is nowhere to be found. Only the date is listed.

Although Tbabe is correct. SCYSA still needs the fields and pays rent to the owner. It is my understanding that Club or Clubs in the low country have not stepped forward to work with SCYSA in the set-up of the cup. Sounds pretty much like the upper district last year.

Great opportunity for Discoveries to unveil Manchester Meadows to the entire state!

Ok, found brief comment in Coastal section. Nothing finalized yet?
http://www.scysa.org/news_coastal.shtml
Maybe State finals should always be in Cola. each year as a central site. Similar to HS sports finals.
(I am sure there will be a few comments on that thought!)

I have HEARD in the past that there will "never" be a State Cup held at Mt. Pleasant Soccer Club because 1) SCYSA requires the host club to turn over control of their fields to them during Cup play and 2) the city of Mt. Pleasant will not allow someone else, i.e., SCYSA, to have control over their fields.

If this is the case, that would leave Summerville and James Island as potential hosts.

Here's my understanding -- which is pretty much the same as "futbol(soccer)". This is a three-step process:

1) A district must be selected by the SCYSA. (I believe this is done on a rotating, or at least semi-rotating, basis.)

2) Fields must be located. This typically must involve a club since clubs have a tendency to own, or at least have rights to, fields.

3) Volunteers must be found. This typically must involve a club since clubs have a tendency to have volunteers.

Last year, as I understand it, the SCYSA selected the upstate district, CESA volunteered its fields, but CESA couldn't find enough volunteers with the tournaments it runs and thus the SCYSA had to provide the volunteers.

I don't know what's going on in the Coastal region this year. My guess -- and it's only a guess since I'm not at all involved in last year's stuff or this year's -- is that the financial package that is put together by the SCYSA to reward the club (I think they get to sell ads in the program or something like that) isn't sufficient to get anyone to want to go through the enormous hassle of granting fields and raising volunteers. I have heard something about "rent" with regard to the fields -- but I've heard it's trivial.

But I don't know the financial details -- all of the financial speculation is just conjecture.

If I recall correctly, SCYSA has had trouble finding a host club for the last 4-5 years. Part of it may be that, at least in the Piedmont and Coastal Districts, it ends up being the same clubs over and over. I have been to state cups in one role or the other for 10 years. By my memory, here is the list of host clubs during that time:

1996-1997 – Piedmont – Greenwood Toros
1997-1998 – Coastal – Summervile Soccer Club
1998-1999 – Midstate – Aiken Soccer Club
1999-2000 – Piedmont – St. Giles
2000-2001 – Coastal – SSC
2001-2002 – Midstate – Columbia Soccer Club
2002-2003 – Piedmont – St Giles United
2003-2004 – Coastal – SSC
2004-2005 – Midstate – Lexington Soccer Club
2005-2006 – Piedmont – CESA/Burning Hills