The Sporting Kansas City Academy U-19s and U-17s learned their group stage opponents on Wednesday for the 2018 U.S. Soccer Development Academy Playoffs, with the group stage and quarterfinal knockout round taking place from June 18-26 at the SoCal Sports Complex in Oceanside, California.
The tournament’s official draw split 32 academy clubs at each age level into eight groups of four. The group stage runs June 18-24 — consisting of a three-game round-robin — and will send every first-place finisher to the Development Academy quarterfinals, which will follow on June 25-26. Those matches will see the eight group winners stay in Oceanside to play for one of four spots in the Development Academy semifinals, set to kickoff at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday, July 8, followed by the championship games on July 10.