As announced by officials of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and the Peninsula Athletic League, which have merged for football into an expanded PAL in 2022, these are the divisional alignments approved by the coaches and athletic directors:
"A" leagues
De Anza _ Wilcox, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Los Gatos, Homestead, Mountain View.
Bay _ Burlingame, Sacred Heart Prep, Menlo School, Half Moon Bay, Aragon, Menlo-Atherton.
"B" leagues
El Camino _ Sequoia, King's Academy, Gunn, Los Altos, Santa Clara, Cupertino.
Ocean _ San Mateo, Hillsdale, Capuchino, Carlmont, Terra Nova, Jefferson.
"C" league
Lake _ Lynbrook, Monta Vista, Saratoga, El Camino, South San Francisco, Mills, Woodside, Fremont.
Note: As pointed out earlier on this site, the major advantage of merging the SCVAL and the PAL for football is the ability to quarantine the failing programs into one alignment, the Lake, allowing those eight teams to play one another in what should be a schedule that is reasonably competitive and balanced for seven weeks. It also assumes that South San Francisco will have a varsity in 2022. The Warriors dropped their varsity in 2021 due to a lack of available players. South City's new coach, Frank Moro (a former Warrior head coach), has declared that he will be able to field a varsity this year.