TCS area Competitive and
Recreational Leagues
Youth Soccer Programs
in the TCS area
Youth Soccer and Adult Soccer are delineated at the
age of 19. A player who turns 19 years of age before
August in any given year is considered a "U20"
player and is thus an Adult player and cannot participate
in local Club soccer programs. A player who turns 19
years of age on or after August 1 of any given year
is considered a "U19" player and is still
eligible to participate in local Youth Club soccer programs.
Competitive Leagues:
There are four 'competitive' leagues in
the TCS area. Competitive Leagues involve some element
of travel. For outdoor competitive leagues, there are
generally an equal number of home and away games. Home
games are played in the local community area at the Clubs
home field. Away games are at the competitions home field
and can be as close as a few miles away, or as far as
a couple of hundred miles away - depends on the league.
The indoor competitve league involves all games played
at one facility but can involve significant travel by
some teams to reach that facility. In the Fall, the LSC
offers a Fall League.
In the Winter, the FIELD
offers a Winter
League. In the Spring, the Broome County Soccer Association
offer the BCSA-SL,
and upper level 'Premiere' teams from the TCSA area also
participate in the Upstate
NY Premiere Soccer League. As a general rule, the
administration of these leagues are structured to accept
individual Club base teams into its own league and they
are not positioned to deal with individual players. Individual
players wishing to play at the 'competitive' level and
who are not already affiliated with a Club team should
contact the Club Registrar of the local soccer club in
his/her community. Coaches of 'competitve' teams participating
in these leagues are frequently certified or licensed.
Most are volunteer, though teams participating at the
highest level generally have paid coaches.
Recreational Leagues:
There are many 'recreation' level programs in the TCS
area. In general, games played within these leagues
don't involve travel, i.e. for outdoor play, all of the
games are played at one central location and the
players participating in the league are all from within
the local club or local municipality. In many cases
the level of involvement is limited to just game play.
In other Recreational offerings there is an element
of instruction (practice) as well as game play. Most of
the coaches in Recreational soccer are volunteer
parents. Some of these parents have been certified or
licensed to coach youth soccer, though
certification/licensing is not generally required. Some
of the Recreational Soccer offerings in the
TCS area (by geographical area) include:
