Club Fees
DCYFC ACADEMY PLAYERS
The Academy Program is open to boys and girls ages 6 to 10 with a commitment to train. No tryout is necessary.
The individual registration fee for Academy players is $150 per season (this includes one or two training session per week for 10 weeks).
DCYFC ACADEMY LEAGUE TEAMS
Players participating in the Academy training program can also join an Academy team. Matches are conducted on Sunday afternoons at the Palisades Recreation Center turf field from 3:00-4:30pm. To join both the Academy training and an Academy team, the fee is $250/player for an 8-game season.
SELECT TEAM PLAYERS
For "select" team players, the fee for Spring 2019 is $600/player/season. The fee includes two game kits (i.e. uniforms), socks and a practice jersey. This fee is applicable to players who had a "tryout" and are selected to play on a team.
In summary:
Compare our "Select Team" club fees ($600 per season) to the $2,500 to $3,500 per year mandatory three season commitment at other clubs.
Many of the largest clubs and companies in the area do not post the per player "select" team fee.
Paying this amount of money to play soccer is truly incredible. Throughout the world soccer is the most popular sport because all you need is a ball, a flat space and anything to masquerade as a goal.
We offer excellent technical skill development and tactical instruction from experienced and highly successful youth coaches. This is what it is about. Our coaches have life experiences along with a soccer pedigree. It's not about former college soccer players as coaches -- it's about understanding the game, understanding kids and having a diverse, multi-cultural experience.
It makes little rationale sense to pay $3,000-$4,000 per year for NCSL, CCL or EDP "travel" leagues where many club teams play in the lower divisions. The competition in the local Washington DC area makes it unnecessary to travel 3 hours out-of-state to play a weekend game. You have this opportunity 35 minutes away at the Maryland SoccerPlex.
Instead of paying the incremental $1,500-$2,000+ player fee to join a Club team playing in the lower divisions of NCSL or for other non-DC-based corporate entities, you are better off investing this annual savings for 10 years. At a 7% return on your investment, this would yield around $30,000. A tidy college fund sum which is infinitely more likely to occur than playing collegiate soccer. The odds of going on to play collegiate soccer after playing in the lower divisions of "travel" soccer are significantly greater than the 5000:1 odds that Leicester City won the 2015/16 English Premier League! In fact, the odds of playing collegiate soccer after competing in NCSL or CCL Division 1 is greater than Leicester City winning the title.
DCYFC has a true nonprofit management philosophy. Coaches place player development above monetary reward and their willingness to treat the program as a commitment to improving boys and girls soccer in the Washington DC area.
It is not and has never been about the Soccer Industrial Complex. If so, we could raise our fees to meet the current going rate for playing "select" travel soccer.
Instead, our fees have been steady for two years including the upcoming Spring 2019 season!
The Academy Program is open to boys and girls ages 6 to 10 with a commitment to train. No tryout is necessary.
The individual registration fee for Academy players is $150 per season (this includes one or two training session per week for 10 weeks).
DCYFC ACADEMY LEAGUE TEAMS
Players participating in the Academy training program can also join an Academy team. Matches are conducted on Sunday afternoons at the Palisades Recreation Center turf field from 3:00-4:30pm. To join both the Academy training and an Academy team, the fee is $250/player for an 8-game season.
SELECT TEAM PLAYERS
For "select" team players, the fee for Spring 2019 is $600/player/season. The fee includes two game kits (i.e. uniforms), socks and a practice jersey. This fee is applicable to players who had a "tryout" and are selected to play on a team.
In summary:
- DCYFC Academy player fee is $150 for once or twice per week for the season. The season is 10 weeks.
- All DCYFC players receive a free practice jersey.
- DCYFC Select fee is $600 and includes two game jerseys, shorts, socks and a practice jersey.
- There are no other incidental club costs.
- Our fees are stated clearly. No other mandatory purchases including bags, jackets, warm-up gear, additional practice fees, winter training, etc.
- Season by season (Fall, Winter, Spring) commitment. No one-year mandatory financial obligation.
Compare our "Select Team" club fees ($600 per season) to the $2,500 to $3,500 per year mandatory three season commitment at other clubs.
Many of the largest clubs and companies in the area do not post the per player "select" team fee.
Paying this amount of money to play soccer is truly incredible. Throughout the world soccer is the most popular sport because all you need is a ball, a flat space and anything to masquerade as a goal.
We offer excellent technical skill development and tactical instruction from experienced and highly successful youth coaches. This is what it is about. Our coaches have life experiences along with a soccer pedigree. It's not about former college soccer players as coaches -- it's about understanding the game, understanding kids and having a diverse, multi-cultural experience.
It makes little rationale sense to pay $3,000-$4,000 per year for NCSL, CCL or EDP "travel" leagues where many club teams play in the lower divisions. The competition in the local Washington DC area makes it unnecessary to travel 3 hours out-of-state to play a weekend game. You have this opportunity 35 minutes away at the Maryland SoccerPlex.
Instead of paying the incremental $1,500-$2,000+ player fee to join a Club team playing in the lower divisions of NCSL or for other non-DC-based corporate entities, you are better off investing this annual savings for 10 years. At a 7% return on your investment, this would yield around $30,000. A tidy college fund sum which is infinitely more likely to occur than playing collegiate soccer. The odds of going on to play collegiate soccer after playing in the lower divisions of "travel" soccer are significantly greater than the 5000:1 odds that Leicester City won the 2015/16 English Premier League! In fact, the odds of playing collegiate soccer after competing in NCSL or CCL Division 1 is greater than Leicester City winning the title.
DCYFC has a true nonprofit management philosophy. Coaches place player development above monetary reward and their willingness to treat the program as a commitment to improving boys and girls soccer in the Washington DC area.
It is not and has never been about the Soccer Industrial Complex. If so, we could raise our fees to meet the current going rate for playing "select" travel soccer.
Instead, our fees have been steady for two years including the upcoming Spring 2019 season!