Welcome to CYA Senior soccer. CYA soccer teams from ages U11 (aka U12 Division 2) through U19 all participate in the Suburban Friendship League (SFL). You can learn all about SFL on their web site (see link on the left). Each team will play half their games at a home CYA field and half at an away field against a recreation level team from another club. Here are some dates to keep in mind as we begin the Fall 2007 season:
31 July - Registration closed
approx. 25 August - This is the earliest your team can start practice
TBD - Seniors Coaches Meeting and uniform pick up
6 Sept - First weekend of games
Oct 11-12 - no games, Columbus Weekend
8 & 9 Nov - SFL Tournament (The SFL Tournament is an end-of-season event. About half the teams play two games - some more and some less. All the games are played against teams with similar records so they are usually fairly close and exciting games to close out the season. )
A couple other specific details for Senior Soccer:
-- Unlike Juniors or Bantams, SFL teams usually play 10 games per season and are usually officiated by three Grade 8 referees.
-- All Senior teams wear similar uniforms so they are easily recognizable as CYA teams. Dupliacte numbers are not allowed in SFL so please make sure your player wears THIS SEASON’S UNIFORM - they may not be allowed to play if they wear the wrong jersey number!
-- Weather information can be accessed through the CYA Soccer web site for home games. Weather info for away games should be sought from the hosting club via the SFL web site.
-- Some of our older teams will play games on turf fields – such as the newly renovated
Poplar
Tree
Park fields 2 & 3. Games on these fields will be played in wet conditions so please read the weather information carefully and be prepared to play in the rain on these full-sized fields. Burke, Herndon, Springfield, and other clubs also have turf fields. Please don’t assume that rain means you won’t play!
We hope your soccer player has a great season, learns about the beautiful game, makes friends and most importantly has fun this fall!
