Academy

Academy Registration

• You must have submitted your recreational registration for the current season. See the Player Registration page here. Everyone must register as a recreational player each season before registering for Academy. Fees (including the late fee) are the same whether you are rostered or unrostered.
• Submit your Academy Registration form. We recommend registering Academy in person. Or, include your personal fax number, and we will fax the completed form back to you. We are not responsible for faxes that are not received. We cannot process Academy forms via email. Only the parents can submit and receive the registration for their child. Academy registration is a private and confidential transaction between the family and FWYSA. We do not register "teams" nor do we provide Academy Registrations to coaches and/or managers.
• North Texas Soccer created Academy Registration as a supplement (not a substitute) for recreational soccer. However, if you do not want to be rostered to a recreational team, be sure to send us an email stating this, after you have submitted your recreational registration. We will move you to the "Unrostered" category.

North Texas Soccer Academy Rules.

Your Academy Registration allows you to participate in any Academy training, Academy playing leagues (such as the Premiere Academy League), and any Academy tournament teams.

Click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Academy

The Premiere Academy League (PAL) is an organized league of Academy teams from across the metroplex. PAL schedules league play for teams that choose to play in this League. Click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions about PAL. Their web site is www.ccsai.org.

Ft. Worth Youth Soccer does not organize the various Academy teams. These teams are formed independent of Ft. Worth Youth Soccer. Some academy teams are simply the existing recreational team wit a parent-coach, when that team wants the additional experience of Academy play. Some are organized by single coaches and could include players from several recreational teams. And many are organized by local select soccer clubs with hired and paid coaches.

Per North Texas Soccer instructions, we will sign an Academy Tournament Roster only when:

• All information (especially the Registration Number) is completed clearly for each player;
• All players are listed in alphabetical order by last name; and
• The coach has in their possession (for us to verify) an Academy Player Registration Form (signed by the home association Registrar) for each player for that season

Select Clubs

There are several select soccer clubs (with number of teams ranging from one to over twenty) that predominantly (or exclusively) register with Ft. Worth Youth Soccer and practice in the Ft. Worth area. These (with any available links, listed alphabetically) are:

• Blaze Futebol Club (http://www.swingin-p.com/Blaze/blaze.html)
• Ft. Worth Arsenal
• Ft. Worth FC (http://www.ftworthfc.com/)
• Ft. Worth Rockets
• Ft. Worth United (http://www.fortworthunited.com/)
• International Futbol Club (www.internationalfc.org)
• NTFC Elite

There are literally dozens and dozens of other select soccer clubs in the greater Metroplex area. North Texas Soccer maintains a listing of links to most (if not all) soccer clubs on their web site.

FAQ About Academies

Why do we have 5 non-Saturday (weekdays or Sundays) games, only one game in one month, and seven (or more) games in another month?

A variety of factors could produce an inordinate number of non-Saturday games, often concentrated in a particular month. Among them are:

Odd numbers of teams in a division produce “automatic byes” as one team is not playing each weekend. For example, a 5 team division playing ten games in a season will require a schedule of thirteen weekends.

We try to reserve the last two weekends of the season for rain-outs, which reduces the number of Saturdays for the regular season games.

We allow each team one bye request. Spring/Fall break weekends are popular requests for byes. Even if you did not request a bye, your opposing team may have done so—which creates a bye for your team also.

In the U9s and U10s, we reserve those fields for the Premier Academy League on Sunday. Thus, no byes are rescheduled for Sundays. They are all rescheduled for weekdays during Day Light Savings time.

In the U11s and up, we include non-FWYSA associations in those divisions, and often we must start those seasons later.

To summarize with a very plausible scenario: A team could have three byes due to an odd number of teams in a division—and two additional byes due to teams requesting their own byes. These five byes might be rescheduled on Sundays (predominantly for U11s and up) or on weekdays during Daylight Savings Time.