NEW! Fall registration now open!   More info

BAYS season begins Saturday, September 12. Register before June 20 to be placed on a team.

In-Town Jamboree is Saturday, September 19. Games begin September 26. Register before September 1.

Kick Start begins Saturday, September 19.

NEW! CYS Calendar Updates

Sunday, May 31 - U10 and U12 BAYS Fall 2009 team Player Placements
Tuesday, June 2 - U14 BAYS Fall 2009 team Player Placements
Saturday, June 6 - CYS Photo Day
More info

NEW! Letter From the President

Program updates from Cambridge Youth Soccer President Andrew Farrar. Read more

NEW! Placement Field Evaluations for Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Travel (BAYS) Teams — see schedule below
All Field Placements are at Russell Field, North Cambridge.

To be placed on a Fall BAYS team, players must be registered by June 15. Online registration will open soon.

*BAYS players born in August are permitted to request to play "up" if this allows them to remain with grade classmates. If you have an August birthday child and wish CYS to consider letting them play up a year in order to remain with their grade classmates, please indicate this request on the registration form in the appropriate box.

U10-U12 BAYS Player Placement Evaluation Schedule
Sunday, May 31 at Russell Field, North Cambridge
**Please attend player's BAYS age group for the fall 2009**

U14 BAYS Player Placement Evaluation Schedule
Tuesday, June 2 at Russell Field, North Cambridge
**Please attend player's BAYS age group for the fall 2009**

• Players should come to the field 30 minutes before stated time for sign-in and warm-up, and should be ready to play soccer — with shin guards, a drink and a soccer ball.

• Parents/guardians must register online, OR bring completed registration form with a check payable to CYS to the field (both online registration and printable forms will be available Wednesday, May 20) Click here for informaton, forms and online registration.

• Players new to BAYS should bring a COPY of their birth certificate to leave with CYS - no originals please.

• For more information (including weather related postponements) contact CYS Executive Director, Susan Ruff, 617-876-5414 or visit the CYS web site.

Important: Current In-Town players who plan to play on a CYS travel soccer team in the fall should attend placements. Fall 2009 and/or Spring 2010 In-Town players do not need to attend placements. Fall registration is due by August 15.

In-Town or BAYS?

CYS Players born on or after 8/1/1995 and before 9/1/2001 may choose to play on a fall/spring U10, U12, or U14 CYS travel team in the Boston Area Youth Soccer League (BAYS). Playing in our travel program requires a fall and spring commitment to attend two weekly practices and all games, home and away.

If you and your player cannot make this commitment, please consider our In-Town program. It is not fair to teammates and coaches to sign up for a travel team unless you can fully participate in practices and games for both seasons. We have more flexibility when forming our In-Town teams, and we try very hard to place players with friends, neighbors, classmates, as requested. That is not something we can do on our BAYS teams.

The BAYS Player Placement evaluations are not tryouts — all players will be placed on a team according to ability. For more information about playing on a CYS BAYS team, please go to BAYS Travel Teams and read BAYS Placement Field Evaluations.

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Great educational videos covering Training, Team Tactics, Courses, and more on uefa.com. Europe's football website, uefa.com, is the official site of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations. uefa.com

Tomorrow's Stars Summer Soccer Clinic

Skills and Development Clinic for Boys & Girls Ages 6-15
July 6-10 and July 27-31 at Danehy Park
More info online or PDF brochure and form

Lady Eagles April Vacation Soccer Clinic

For the first time ever, the Boston College Lady Eagles Soccer Schools is offering an April Vacation Soccer Clinic. The Clinic will run daily from 9AM to 3PM April 21st to April 24th and will be held at their Newton Campus Soccer Complex.  Please see flier for details and registration information. (PDF file)

2008 FALL COACHING RESOURCES

Download (PDF file) the CYS 2008 Fall Coaching Resources guide containing information and links about the CYS Coaching Manual, Coaches section of the web site, Coaches Code of Conduct, and Mass Youth Soccer coaching courses.

CYS Player Tariq Mansour is collecting soccer equipment to share with the children in Sierra Leone. Please read more about Tariq's efforts and consider making a donation.

CYS Coaches Survey

Results from the CYS Coaches Survey that was conducted in fall 2007, including key coaching challenges and issues. More info

2007-2008 CYS Coaches Manual is now available online.

The objective of the CYS Coaches Manual is to provide In-Town and BAYS coaches with helpful information on coaching soccer at the youth level. The materials are geared towards both novice and intermediate coaches and contains information on various topics. More info

On Saturday mornings during the fall, while most of Harvard was still too hung over to even sit upright in bed, my buddy Chris Cullen '07 and I would embark on our weekly trek to watch sports at its very best. Somewhere buried beneath the sporting embarrassments of player-fan brawls, lockouts and steroids, we had found the blank slate of athletic competition - matchless in its purity, simplicity and fairness. We had discovered a league refreshingly void of players charged with felonies, DUIs and possession of marijuana. Grand jury testimony? Nonexistent. Recruiting scandals? Entirely unheard of. Steroid testing? Completely unnecessary. In an age of heightened tension between players and fans, we had stumbled upon a field where the fans not only supported the players, they truly loved them. As for the players, they loved the fans too, and from time to time they even openly displayed their affection and respect for those who cheered for them on the sidelines. The fact is they kind of had to...if they wanted a ride home.

Click here to read Colin's complete story, which originally appeared in the Harvard Independent.

Cambridge Youth Soccer Snack Guidelines

Developed by Cambridge Youth Soccer with the School Health Program of the Cambridge Public Health Department. Acrobat PDF

In-Town or BAYS? - An Overview

Description of CYS programs. Read more

Zero Tolerance Policy

Cambridge Youth Soccer has adopted the Zero Tolerance Policy developed by BAYS, for both In-Town and BAYS games. This policy governs interactions with referees. Please be sure that all players, coaches and parents are familiar with the policy.