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Formed in August 1974, [4] BSC is one of Colorado's oldest soccer clubs with only a handful of clubs such as Denver Kickers (est 1962) [5] and Skyline Soccer Association (est 1967) [6] having a longer history. The club's original membership that first season included less than 20 players.
The United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) is a national organization and sanctioning body for amateur soccer in the United States. It consists of 54 state organizations as well as regional, national and state leagues.
The ECNL was founded as a girls' soccer league in March 2009 during a meeting of 40 founding clubs. [1] Its founding was inspired in part by frustrations experienced by clubs and coaches with older volunteer-driven organizations, such US Youth Soccer and the American Youth Soccer Organization, in favor of a more professionalized approach. [12]
The top-level men's league is Major League Soccer (MLS) and the second level men's league is the USL Championship. The third level men's leagues are USL League One, the National Independent Soccer Association, and MLS Next Pro. At the semi-professional level, the USL League Two and the National Premier Soccer League have teams.
USYS holds the annual US Youth Soccer National Championships for age groups from under-13 to under-19. [7] [8] [9] USYS also operates the US Youth Soccer National League. [10] National select teams compete in tournaments against clubs in other youth leagues, such as the Elite Clubs National League. [11] [12]
Organized youth soccer affiliated with Major League Soccer began with various MLS academy teams playing in the Super Y-League at its foundation in 1999. In 2007, the United States Soccer Federation created an elite academy league called the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which featured academy teams of MLS teams, along with several non-MLS academies across the United States and Canada.
Denver Kickers are an American soccer club, founded in 1956. The club fields a number of teams at the adult and youth levels. The Kickers premier team plays in the United States Adult Soccer Association sanctioned Colorado Adult Soccer Association, formerly the Colorado State Soccer Association.
Rush Soccer was founded in April 1997 in Denver, Colorado. [5] The Colorado Rush, the first domestic Rush club, has won over 12 National Championships, and 1 World Youth Tournament since the inaugural season began in 1997. [6] The first partnered club was Virginia Rush in 2002 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.