Increase in maximum team size #soccer-rules-2026

[david]

From the main thread:

@stiebel

I post another topic here:
Teams-Size
I asked for that before, but that was the wrong time and place.
Here and now I would like to ask for a rule change for team-size.

In the two highest leagues 2vs2 soccer we have older students that work together even if not at the same grade.
So if one or two quit playing soccer junior we sometime end with only five students left for the next season.
While 3 build a team, two are not enough.
So 6 students are fine to build two teams but 5 students have a problem. Increasing the team members to 5 just for the top leagues would solve the problem.
Thanks for considering this idea.
Roland

And there is a thread discussing this for the 2025 season leading to this being a topic for 2026 rules.