The BDSL is very saddened to learn of the passing of one of our refs, Ian Matthews.
He'll forever be a beloved and respected member of our great soccer community.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family during this time.
Good morning BDSLers. Today marks the start of the 2023 season and a celebration of 100 years of the best soccer league in America. Good luck to everyone kicking off Week 1 today!
Today we regrettably announce that the league has cancelled our 2020 season. Full details have been sent to managers and a brief overview can be found here.
We are happy to announce the return of the BDSL &
@belt_linebrew
collaboration on our own league themed brew Summer League Kolsch. Being canned as we speak these will be available for purchase at Belt Line & most places you go for your beverages.
The BDSL would like to extend our deepest sympathies to
@BorussiaBees
and their families as they deal with the sudden lose of player Mason Monteleon. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all during this time.
BDSL Podcast Ep
#1
@MichaelSchieber
and
@BrIPODshuffle
cover the first month of the season across all 6 divisions.
We hope you enjoy it! Depending on the response we hope to do more.
The BDSL has changed Sunday's
@FcSahara
v
@CrimsonSPAL
result to a 2-0 forfeit win for Crimson after finding roster violations with the Gunners. Additionally the Gunners will receive a 9 point deduction to their season total this year.
Only 5 hrs into it here and the feedback from our first ever podcast has been great and we're already over 500 plays which were told by several people with more knowledge then us is "ridiculously good". The BDSL community remains undefeated.
Lastly our fun 2020 League promo. The BDSL is proud to announce a partnership with our friends at
@belt_linebrew
They will be brewing a special BDSL Summer League Kolsch for the summer. Our April League meeting will be there and serve as the official tapping event for the beer.
Win & advance Tehel Cup 2021
W 1-0AET v
@InterSC1990
Excellent
@OfficialBDSL
game all around v class opponent👏🏼
Who’s next & when do we go play?🥵
⚽️ Enstice (O Christiano)
🧱 M Christiano
🟨 DiNunzio/Fuentes/Adams
Too bad 70% of team tonight <21-no drinks
@Mes_Que
#upset
We're excited to share that in partnership with our friends at Meranto Media, we aim to provide a live stream of action at Championship Sunday, pending all goes to plan. The event will be streaming live on Youtube. You should be able to catch it all here
So about yesterday....What a 1st round of the BDSL Playoffs! Half of the games went to OT or PK's. 8 of 14 games were won by the lower seed including all 4 games in D1. What a treat for BDSL teams and fans. Best of luck to all who moved on!
Like many, when we heard this news we were deeply saddened. Tom is truly one the best officials and men to be associated with our league. We offer our full support and are ready to assist if needed. If anyone is up for a hard task it's Tom. God Bless!
No games today but we're getting reports that
@LosChupacabras1
have gotten 6 yellows today in the first half and
@FCQuake_
is dominating possession and passing despite the game being 0-0. Looking into this.
To all our teams adding the BDSL logo to their uniforms we just want to say how awesome that it to us. It's a small thing but it just continues to build on our great foundation. Hats off to all you guys who have been doing this. Much appreciated!
We had a total of 84 teams apply to the league last night across all our divisions of play. Hope to have a full list of those accepted and the divisions out by next week.
There will be a BDSL meeting tomorrow at 7pm at Dnipro for all interested in attending. Players, managers, refs, parents. Anyone interested at all in recent events. The event that trigger this was disgusting and we dont condone at all. We won't be commenting on this anymore here.
Ian Matthews’ cheeky one-liners could light up a room. But beyond the thick English accent and dry humor was someone who remembered, and genuinely cared.
Want to say thanks to
@WGR550
and
@JeremyWGR
for mentioning our humble league on air today celebrating our 98th season and championship day. We can confirm we are absolutely a league of fun and lovable psychos.
Check it out here and show them some love:
The BDSL expects to be able to reveal our teams and divisions on Wednesday or Thursday this week. Thanks for the patience as we tie up some final loose ends.
The BDSL wishes the Merriest of Christmas', the Happiest of Hanukkahs, the joyfulest of Kwanzaa, and the fantasticests of Festiviests to all teams, players, refs and everyone you makest the league the bestest.
This year we're happy to be donating to
@RootedInLoveWNY
. Last year it was $2 per clean sheet. This year we're rewarding the scorers. For every goal scored in the BDSL will donate $1 towards Rooted in Love WNY. So fill the net lads and lets raise some money!
With the calendar changing to June, it's one month of the season in the books for the league in 2021.
@MichaelSchieber
gives his first month grades for all teams here. Please hate them accordingly.
Congrats to
@Olean1854FC
for capturing the BDSL Championship Division title and promotion into the Premier Division for 2022!
They earn their 3rd straight promotion up the table and are now in the top flight after starting in D2.
Another thing that makes BDSL so great is that many who play in and support the league do things like this without any expectations aside from adding something cool. Top marks to Luke here for this content.
Best of luck to the guys heading down to West Virginia today to represent
@_Sharpshooters
, BDSL, and WNYSA in the
@USASARegion1
Open Cup tomorrow vs
@ASFC63
. Bring home a W lads!
With that said, the BDSL received 12 applications from prospective new clubs to enter the league in 2020. This would be the second largest amount of new teams to apply in one year to the league in recent history. Proud to have so much interest in BDSL soccer.
Good Morning BDSLer's! It's Championship Sunday!!!
Another Sunday league season comes to a close this year as we celebrate the BDSL in grand fashion out at
@SahlensSP
. First game kicks off at 2pm with action all afternoon. Hope to see you all there!
Good morning BDSLer's. Today is Championship Sunday! 6 finals today and for 6 clubs a trophy and the title of Champions. Join us at
@SahlensSP
starting at 2pm for the kickoff of our final Sunday weekend. Best of luck to all the clubs!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: The league has signed a deal with the
@RDSLofficial
to merge into a single league in 2020. League standings this year will impact new format coming in 2020. Full story available at link below!
FT:
@_Sharpshooters
win their second ever Tehel Cup Championship over
@BuffaloUnitedSS
. Great game by both clubs.
Our MOTM goes to Brandon Loncar with the last minute GWG.
A very Merry Christmas and Holiday season to all. Hope every one in the BDSL and soccer community from our players to refs enjoy this time with those that mean the most!
The BDSL & FC Buffalo Blue & Gold games are this weekend! Please come out & support our dear Ukrainian friends. Enjoy an afternoon of fun, food & plenty of soccer. Head here to get your tickets or even better get involved!
Hope to see you all there.
In an effort to better assist new players find homes we're introducing the BDSL Free Agent List.
Whether your a prospective player searching for a new club, or a current BDSL team looking to add some quality to your roster, we're hoping this will help.
A pair of preseason favorites in
@InfinityFC_BDSL
and
@BangarangBDSL
have proven why all season and will continue that Championship quest in the playoffs.
BDSL Feb meeting was long but it was great to see all the managers of all our clubs.
Special thanks to our out going 2nd VP Faress Salah for his time spent serving the board.
Welcome in your new VP2 from
@GreatWhiteBflo
Brian Triantafillou.
Thanks to
@HofbrauhausB
for hosting
Our twitterless friends over at BSC Raiders have offered to match the $278 already promised by the league in the Clean Sheets for Cash challenge for
@BongfootballA
In typical Raider fashion, they also dare any team out there to match or beat them.
Cc:
@Nuukeleg
@BryceTramuta