SOUTH COUNTY YOUTH SOCCER TRYOUT PHILOSOPHY

TRYOUT PHILosophy

Overview

South County Youth Soccer Club offers a competitive program which aims to develop successful, competitive teams and successful, competitive players.

Our goal is to form the strongest teams in each age group while encouraging individual player development. Players who share similar skills are grouped together to form a team and each team is placed in an appropriate competitive division that is intended to challenge, foster growth, and build confidence.

The purpose of the tryout process is to provide all players with a fair opportunity to join a team of their age group and skill group peers. This Competitive Tryout policy outlines the guidelines and protocol for competitive tryouts and evaluation.

Objectives

To form the strongest teams in each age group while encouraging individual player development. To do this we intend to:

Evaluate players using consistent criteria for evaluation
Group players with similar skills together to form a team, ensuring age-appropriate placements
Each team is placed in a competitive division that is intended to challenge, foster growth, and build confidence

Competitive Team programming

LEAGUES
COACHING
PRACTICES
PROGRAMMING
COST & UNIFORM

Our competitive program primarily participates in Superliga: a Soccer RI Sanctioned club-level season-long tournament
Superliga consists of gender specific competition based on skill level at Anchor (A-level), Classic (B-level), and Rhody (C-level) divisions
Players will be selected for SCYSC competitive teams aligned to the A/B/C Superliga divisions based on skill level and age based groups as numbers permit
In addition South County is now participating in the New England Club Soccer League, and inter-state club level league for select teams
Superliga rosters don't need to be the same as NECSL rosters for any given year
All players are encouraged to participate in our SCYSC Recreational Program regardless of competitive selection

Each team is assigned a volunteer Head Coach and volunteer Assistant Coach.

Sign up to coach

All Coaches must register to coach using GotSport.
Once registered, Coaches must complete a background check, Heads Up concussion training, and Safe Sport abuse prevention training within GotSport. Please check your acount each season to ensure your requirements are complete and up to date.

Once or twice a week
Approximately 60-90 minutes
Players are encouraged to participate in SCYSC technical training night and other supplemental programming when possible

A full season commitment to competitive soccer typically includes:

Fall and Spring league play
Weekly outdoor Technical Training during Spring/Fall
Weekly team practices during Spring/Fall
Winter indoor training opportunities, including the popular open play
Tournament play (SRI Cup or SRI Festival, Seaside Classic, plus one additional local tournament reimbursement)
All players are encouraged to participate at no additional expense in our SCYSC Recreational Program regardless of competitive selection.

$475 for 2025/26 season
All competitive players are required to purchase a new kit including a blue jersey, white jersey, blue shorts and matching socks. Additional training jerseys and goalkeeper jerseys, among other clothing options are available.

The mandatory uniform kit cost is $130
All jersey numbers must be provided by SCYSC prior to placing your order.
Please visit the SCYSC Challenger Teamwear website to order and please use promocode SouthCountySC50 for 50% off shipping.
Contact Competitive Director Jon Logan if you have questions about your jersey number or about ordering your uniform.

Team Formation

First consideration is given to skill level and matching abilities
Consideration may be given to keep players together from prior seasons
New players and those demonstrating improvement will be given a fair evaluation
Placement on a prior year team is no guarantee of future team placement
Players will be encouraged to play in their designated age group where possible
If there are enough players, multiple teams will be formed, resulting in A, B, and C teams

Coaches are not to contact players directly to discuss team selection ahead of team assignments. Team assignments will be made by the Competitive Director and/or Competitive Subcommittee working in conjunction with the Technical Director. As a guideline, relegation of singular players from one team to a lower level team will be avoided wherever possible.

Playing Up: In additional to an evaluation of the necessary skills, parental consent and Competitive Director approval is required for any player to play up.

Tryout Logistics

Players wishing to participate on a competitive team must pre-register and attend tryouts on the published dates. Tryouts are organized and supervised by the Competitive Director.

Evaluators: SCYSC will use unbiased evaluators to evaluate players with a standard set of criteria. This criteria includes:

Performance from the on-field evaluations at tryouts.
Coach evaluations conducted by SCYSC Head and Assistant Coaches from prior seasons (if applicable)
Technical Director evaluations
Previous game and training performances (if available)
The discretion of the Competitive Program Committee

Player Evaluation: During tryouts, only registered players and evaluators will be allowed on the field of play. Players will receive numbered bibs to ensure evaluators can accurately identify players and document results. The tryout will feature various skill based activities and play formats.

Register for tryouts

All players need to register. Registration is free and does not commit you to playing next season

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2026/27 Tryout details

Get the 2026/27 competitive season tryout details including tryout schedule and check in procedures

2026/27 Tryouts