The Fall Recreational Soccer Season starts in October and ends late February/Early March for most teams. Coaches will contact their teams on practice times. Game schedule does not get emailed to club Commissioner until October. Games should start first weekend in November.
This year GYSA, the recreational league we belong to, has changed some of their rules and ages for their groups.
The breakdown of teams are as follows:
U17 and up will play 11v11 games with approximately 14-18 players per team. They will have practice 1-2 times a week depending on the coach's preference. Saturdays will be games, and some will be home and some away. GYSA cup tournament is in March.
If we have multiple teams for each age group then we will have to go to the draft in October. What this means is that all clubs must submit their players into a draft pool with GYSA and the players are placed on teams within their club. Players DO NOT get to choose their teams.
GYSA follows USYS recreational soccer rules and rules of their own. Recreational soccer is for players of all skill levels and to make it fair and to prevent roster stacking, therefore the draft is required. The Commissioner can save only 4 players per team from the draft. Previous years we could save 3 players but this year, the Commissioners from all the clubs voted to add one more save.
These players are:
1. The Head Coach's child
2. The Asst. Coach's child
3. Sponsor's child
4. The Goalie or up to the Commissioner.
Players are only allowed to play up in age with the max age playing up being 2 years. The player that is wanting to play up in age may only do so if the older age group has space available on roster, the roster has filled with all true age players first, receives permission from the DOC and evaluated by the DOC. The head coach and the Commissioner must also approve the child to play up in age group.
Last year an older kid from another club was severely injured, and the league is even more strict on who plays up in age this year. This has always been a rule of GYSA regarding playing up in age, but this year they will be enforcing it.
Since this is a non-profit organization, we rely on parents to volunteer to coach and the head coach of the team their child plays for will receive a discount.
All board members are volunteers and do not get paid as well as all our volunteer coaches. Please remember to be polite when communicating with the Commissioner, other board members, or a coach, keep in mind that they are volunteers. They all have full time jobs and most have children of their own. They volunteer to help the community and they do this for the kids. Rudeness will not be tolerated. If you want to volunteer and assist the club, please contact the commissioner via email at
[email protected] We are always looking for parent volunteers.
All Players will need to bring water, soccer ball and wear shin guards and cleats at all games and practices.
Size 5 soccer ball