Program starts after Easter thru Fathers Day

• Other than siblings or cousins, no team or coach requests please.  Teams are put together in a draft by the age group coaches.  The idea is for teams to be competitive.  For most age groups the games are on the same time period and field so they will see their friends then.  Plus they get to make a lot of new friends!
• Spring Soccer is small-sided games (6v6 or 7v7), fun, low key, no score is kept soccer.
• Generally the season consists of games each weekend, with one age group practice during the week (U6 to U11/12, attendance of which is optional). 
• Only the U13/14 and U15/16/17 age groups may practice every week as they have no age group training.  All other age groups are only permitted three practices, times and days of their choosing. 
• Coaching is minimal, trying to keep substitutions to the quarter. 
• We want the kids to get as many touches as possible of the ball, to just play.
• Spring Soccer is a time to try new stuff with no fear of affecting the outcome of the game.
• It's kind of like a beer league, but just kids and no beer!

 
This year the season begins the weekend of April 14th and runs through the end of school.

Under-4 Coed and Under-5 Co-ed
For this program, there will be an hour long session with a concentration on developing basic soccer skills (dribbling, passing, trapping, scoring) and building confidence on the field with a focus on sportsmanship and team play for the first forty minutes. The participants will also be involved in small sided soccer games for the last twenty minutes of each session. 

Players are not assigned to specific teams, rather they are trained as a group so no worries about playing with someone they know.

Players are signed up for specific sessions, see the age group chart on the right.

The sessions will begin on Wednesday evening April 11th, Thursday the 12th and also on Saturday morning April 14th.

Registration Period and Costs

• Spring Soccer registration period is Jan 29th to April 9th.

• The base cost for the program this year is $85.

• This season we offer an Early Bird Special of $10 off of each registration that is done no later than Mar 1st.  All registrations from the 1st on are at the base fee of $85 for the 1st child, then $70 for the 2nd and 3rd child and any other children in the family are free.  The maximum family payout is $225.  To get the multi-child discount however you must register all your children together.

• All registrations submitted on March 26th or later will each incur a $10 late fee (you still get the multi-child discounts though). 

• Anyone withdrawing after the first weekend will incur a $10 processing charge to their refund. 

Online Registration

To get to our online registration, just go to the Home page of our website where you will see a link to Spring Soccer/Developmental Academy Registration.  Just click the button to access the registration website.   If you want to sign up your child for both programs, do it for one first and then fill out another registration for the other.  When you have finished those you can go to the part where you do the payment.  No one is registered unless you have completed the payment part of the registration.

If you run into any problems, contact us at registration@haverfordsoccer.org

We Are All Together

Our registration application supports both Windows and Mac. No one is excluded anymore!

Spring Soccer Ground Rules/Team Requests

Please do not make team or player requests. As always, spring teams are put together by the respective age group coachesin a draft at the coaches meeting in March - to field even, competitive teams.

Please do not make team or player requests. As always, spring teams are put together by the respective age group coachesin a draft at the coaches meeting in March - to field even, competitive teams.

(I repeated that on purpose)

The only exception being siblings or cousins.  If sisters or brothers are in the same age group, they will be placed on the same team unless specifically requested otherwise.  If you want them to play with a cousin let us know.

U15/16/17 Coed

U15/16/17 Coed is for 9th thru 11th graders. The program worked well for us and the kids have had a blast. No, the girls will not run the boys over and no the boys will not run the girls over. The games worked out pretty well in previous seasons and we expect the same this season.   When played it has actually raised the level of technique as players elevate their game away from the physical to the skill aspects. As always, referees will be on hand to keep an eye on things. Teams will play 6v6 plus a keeper on 80 by 55 yard field. There will be requirements on the mix of girls and boys on the field at any given time. We will announce those once we get a sense of the registration balance for the age group.

Competition Ground Rules

U8 to U15/16/17 play will be in leagues with competitive games but no standings or championships. The program is open to both travel and intramural players. Teams are assigned with the intention of having competitive teams.

U8 to U11/12 are only permitted three practices during the season as there will be weekly practices for each age group.  The age group training sessions are not mandatory but are available to every player in the age group.  These sessions are run by trainers paid by Haverford Soccer Club.

U8 to U11/12 play 5v5 plus a Keeper (that is 6v6 for the math geniuses like me who always have to count fingers to know what 5v5 plus a Keeper means) on a 60 by 40 yard field. 
U13/14 Boys and Girls and U15/16/17 Coed play 6v6 plus a Keeper on a 80 by 55 yard field.

Playing Up

Any younger players that want to play in the same age group as their classmates in school, will need to make a special request. We will generally move them up unless there is a serious difference in age.

Travel Players

All Travel players can play in their appropriate age group this season.  Travel A players may only play half the game.  All Travel players will be spread out evenly across all the teams in the age group, as the object is to create as competitive division as possible.

2011 Spring Programs

Under-4 Coed and Under-5 Co-ed
During this program, there will be hour long sessions with a concentration on developing basic soccer skills (dribbling, passing, trapping, scoring) and building confidence on the field with a focus on sportsmanship and team play for the first forty minutes. The participants will also be involved in small sided soccer games for the last twenty minutes of each session. 

Under-6 Co-ed
A developmental program with 12 players to a team, a 1 hour session including 30 minutes of skill development followed by 30 minutes of play. All players, except siblings, are assigned to teams by school, but all teams play at the same time at the same field.

Under-7 Boys
Under-7 Girls
A developmental program with 12 players to a team, 1 hour and ten minute sessions are 30 minutes of skill development followed by 30 minutes of play. All players, except siblings, are randomly assigned (generally by school).

Referees
As U4, U5 and U6 is a Developmental age group, there will be no referees for this program.  There will be referees for all the other age groups.

Under-8 Boys
Under-8 Girls
Under-9 and 10 Boys
Under-9 and 10 Girls
Under-11 and 12 Boys
Under-11 and 12 Girls
Under-13 and 14 Boys
Under-13 and 14 Girls
Under-15/16/17 Coed

U8 to U11/12 play 5v5 plus a Keeper (that is 6v6 for the math geniuses like me who always have to count fingers to know what 5v5 plus a Keeper means) on a 60 by 40 yard field. 
U13/14 and 15/16/17 Coed play 6v6 plus a Keeper on a 70 by 50 yard field. 

All players should expect to cover a lot of ground and touch the ball often. This is very similar to indoor soccer but with sunshine and fresh air.

For any questions about our 2011 Spring Soccer Program, rules, requirements, etc. please contact us at registration@haverfordsoccer.org and we will get back to you.

Thanks,
Pete Schechner
Spring Soccer Coordinator
kidswin@haverfordsoccer.org