Skip To Main Content

Heritage Project Interest Form (Click Here)

About The Heritage Project


The ECNL Heritage Project was created to help connect high-level players with foreign heritage to federations around the world for whom they are eligible to play, and to track the performance of ECNL athletes in youth and senior national teams in the US and across the world.  

The ECNL Heritage Project was founded in 2024 and since then has grown to include a database of thousands of players, created relationships with dozens of federations around the world, and helped create opportunities in national team camps and competitions for many players.

If you believe you have a player that fits the criteria of the Heritage Project please fill out The Heritage Project Interest form listed above.

Players Connected as of September 2025

The ECNL Heritage Project has been able to connect hundreds of players with foreign Federations for potential scouting and opportunities. The list of countries where players have been connected is below.

Mexico - 295
Italy
Italy - 123
Philippines - 110
england
England - 104
Puerto Rico - 88
Ireland - 53
Peru - 42
el salvador
El Salvador - 41
Jamaica - 39
Guatemala - 34
Portugal - 32
Honduras - 25
Australia
Australia - 24
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic - 18
Haiti - 18
Scotland - 16
costa ric
Costa Rica - 14
Nicaragua - 11
Morocco - 10
Trinidad & Tobago - 10
Ethiopia
Ethiopia - 9
finland
Finland - 6
Guam - 6
hong kong
Hong Kong - 6
Wales - 6
Marshall Islands - 4
Western Samoa - 4
New Zealand - 3
Palestine - 3
U.S. Virgin Islands - 3
Northern Ireland - 2
American Samoa - 1
Barbados - 1
Belize
Belize - 1
Grenada - 1
Tonga - 1

Additional Opportunities

Unearthing Wales / Cymru’s Future Stars

The ambitions of the FAW’s ‘Our Wales’ and High-Performance Strategies are for our Wales / Cymru National Teams to qualify for major tournaments throughout the pathway in the men’s and women’s game. Identification of future talent is a critical component of an effective player pathway in the international game, and the FAW is always on the lookout for talent at every level. Find out more about the FAW’s Future Talent Programme, and express your interest at the bottom of the page if you think you match what we are looking for.

Link - https://faw.cymru/future-talent

ECNL Players Across the World

  • 31 current ECNL athletes traveled to Mexico to compete in the 2025 SuperCopa FMF (Click here)

 

  • Featuring six current ECNL athletes in the team, the US Virgin Islands U20 Women's Team headed to the Dominican Republic to compete in the U20 Women's World Cup Qualifiers. (Click here)

 

  • DKSC's Mya Perez was called into Mexico Youth National Team camp in January. (Click here)

 

  • Eleven current ECNL players headline Puerto Rico’s U17 Youth National Team roster, which will host Group A of the first round of the 2025 CONCACAF U17 Women’s World Cup qualifiers, highlighting the growing impact of ECNL players on the international stage. (Read More)

 

  • At the ECNL Boys Playoffs in San Diego, scouts from the Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico and Samoa were in attendance to scout players, while at the ECNL Girls Playoffs in Seattle, scouts from Australia, Colombia, Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Scotland were in attendance. (Read more)

 

  • This year, 53 ECNL alums represented 11 different countries in the inaugural Women’s Gold Cup - including 13 who helped raise the championship trophy for the United States. (Read more)

 

  • At last summer’s Women’s World Cup, current and former ECNL athletes took the field for a number of countries besides the United States, including Colombia, Jamaica, Nigeria, and South Korea. (Read more)