Our sister organization, Croton AYSO, runs a recreational youth soccer program in Croton that is wildly successful in providing opportunities to play soccer. There is typically one practice and one game a week in the Fall and Spring seasons.  Most Croton FC players started playing with Croton AYSO. 

As a club program, Croton FC asks for a more serious commitment from players and families in the program. Practice is twice a week, with one being led by a professional trainer. Teams compete in the Westchester Youth Soccer League (WYSL), which may require travel throughout Westchester and parts of New York City for away games. In addition, Croton FC teams train during the winter, and compete in a variety of tournaments during the course of the year. Players in the Croton FC program tend to be passionate about soccer and finding ways to improve their game.   

Competitive youth soccer in the region typically has tryouts in the early Spring for the following year. Among other reasons, we set our tryout dates accordingly, so if players don’t make a Croton FC team, they have the ability to go tryout somewhere else.

US Soccer organizes youth soccer by birth year and our teams are based on that. This means that kids in the same grade may not be eligible for the same team. We strive to have a Croton FC team at every birth year. However, in some instances we have been unable to field a team for certain years – in those cases, players in those years may be considered for the team in the age group ahead of them.      

Players in the Croton FC program tend to be passionate about soccer and finding ways to improve their game.   You can find more information about the club philosophy and commitment here. 

Evaluations and the tryout sessions will be led by professional trainers hired by the Club.

Our ability to field competitive teams at Croton FC is driven both by the interest of local players in a specific age group and the presence of a volunteer coach to run the team. Our main focus as a program is fielding teams, for boys and girls, at the U9-U12 level. Certain teams have chosen to continue on after that initial four years.

Not much. Evaluations are based on a player’s skill and ability at the tryout; being on the team the year before does not guarantee any player a spot on next year’s team.

We encourage players to make both tryouts as it gives our evaluators more of a chance to see the individual abilities of a particular player. However, we only require players to attend one tryout to be considered for a team.  

 Program fees have typically been approximately $900 for the year.  Financial assistance may be available for those that need it.  All requisite costs are included in our program fees, including uniforms, WYSL league registration fees, field costs, professional trainers (who run weekday practices), tournament fees, and additional offerings (additional winter training, additional tournaments), to the extent the budget allows.

Our goal is to inform players if they’ve made the team within a week after the last tryout.  Please note, players that make the team will be asked to register and commit (including remitting payment) within a few days of being informed they made the team. We do this because if a player is going to decline their offer to join the team, we want to be able to go to the Wait List.