FALL Season
Games for the Fall Season typically start 2 full weeks after the beginning of training. Most years, training would begin the last week of August and games would be the weekend after Labor Day Weekend. Seasons last eight(8) game weeks and typically ends the weekend before or after Halloween. If Halloween falls on a game day, we still have games.
SPRING Season
Training normally starts the first week of March. Games for the spring season will start two weekends after the first day of practice. The season will run eight(8) weekends encompassing UCPS Spring Break and Memorial Day Weekend. There are no games the weekends of UCPS Spring Break nor Memorial Day Weekend.
Game Schedule
- Union County Youth Soccer typically finalizes the game schedule the week before the first games. All games are scheduled by UCYS.
- As soon as it's available, we will communicate it to you. It will then be up to you to provide it to your parents. WAA will add the schedule to the master calendar and SportsEngine.
- We will have someone from the soccer board load the game schedule into the SportsEngine system. This takes time and will be available in the week before the season starts.
- UCYS plays games on Saturday & Sunday. If a team plays on Sunday, they will not normally play the following Saturday.
- There are times where a team will play one weeks game on Saturday and the following weeks game that Sunday. Yes, Saturday and Sunday.
- Games WILL NOT be rescheduled unless there is a health emergency among one of the teams. Please don't ask to reschedule a game for any other reason. It will not normally be honored by UCYS due to the complexity of the schedule. Sounds harsh, but just trying to head off those requests. We're all busy and from time to time our schedules conflict.
- Recruit that assistant coach if you haven't already! Recruit your Team Manager as well to manage peer-to-peer fee collection for Referees.
- If there is an issue with coaching availability for a game, reach out to the commissioner and they'll work with you to find another coach for you.