Academy Boys: Ages 5-6 — Indoor Season 2024-2025 Assessment Sessions:
- Looking to join our Academy squad? Contact the Club to tryout during our rep teams training sessions
- Assessment Sessions / Tryouts are free of charge, players need to sign up to be on the list
- Players will be assessed and our coaches will recommend next steps i.e. Academy, Football School, House League, Mini Masters
- Club contact info @ royalyorkfc.com
Academy Pre-Rep Team Training Program
Are you thinking how awesome it would be to play on a team? Do you already aspire to play on a rep team? If your answer is yes, then our Academy Team Soccer Training Program is for you. Don’t wait, book a try-out now
The sooner you start training in the right environment and as a team, the more chance you have to play on a rep team by age 9. We are not looking for the best players at this moment in time. We are here to go through a skillful process of creating gifted players and teams by age 8 or 9. This is your chance to make it on a team and develop technical skills with your teammates.
Our Academy Training Program focuses on developing individual technical skills on and off the ball in a team environment. Such team environment allows players to develop their skills together and build team chemistry before they embark onto a rep soccer path at the age of 9.
We are focusing on the skills on and off the ball, footwork, agility, shielding, dribbling, passing and receiving. As the player progress with individual skills we will introduce attacking and defending principles.
Academy Training Program is your path to rep soccer. 90% of players graduating from Academy program at the age of 9 join our rep teams. Players wishing to be a part of team training program in our junior academy program must tryout or be scouted by one of our technical coaches.
Who can join this program:
- Boys Academy Ages 5: players born 2019
- Boys Academy Ages 6: players born 2018
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Girls Academy Ages 6-7: coming Summer 2025
U8 and up (born 2017 and older):
- See our REP PROGRAM
Scroll down for more information on our boys and girls Academy programs, and register your tryout/assessment sessions today!
Boys Junior Academy Soccer Program
- Purpose of the Academy program is to train players using a technical skill based methodology and have players demonstrate this in practice sessions and games
- Promote players from our Academy to our U9 competitive boys rep team when they are of age. (Ontario soccer league play start at U8)
ACADEMY SELECTION PROCESS AGES 5-6 (born 2019-2018):
This is not a tryout, no player age 5-6 will be cut. This is an assessment session where all players participating will receive recommendation from our coaches to join either Academy ages 5-6, Football School, Clinics 45, House League or Mini Masters program.
We are not looking for the best players at this moment in time, we are looking for players ages 5-6 wanting to commit to 3 times per week technical training. We are here to go through a skillful process of creating gifted players and teams by age 8 or 9. Players ages 5-6 interested in joining an academy program should attend free Academy Assessment Sessions and after the session our coaches will recommend next steps.
- Assessment/Tryout session dates: contact the Club to join Academy training session
WHERE DO PLAYERS GO IF THEY DON’T ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ACADEMY LEVEL?
- U7 Academy (born 2018):
- Tuesdays, gyms in South Etobicoke
- Thursdays, gyms in South Etobicoke
- Sundays, Invader Sportplex Turf Field
- U6 Academy (born 2019):
- Tuesdays, gyms in South Etobicoke
- Thursdays, gyms in South Etobicoke
- Sundays, Invader Sportplex Turf Field
- U7 -U8 Academy (born 2018-2017):
- Tuesday: 6:10pm-7:25pm, Bloordale School Field
- Thursday: 6:10pm-7:25pm, Bloordale School Field
Girls Academy Soccer Program
Check out Skills Girls Program – Winter Block starts Feb 13
The focus for girls academy is skill development in a team setting. We are focusing on the skills on and off the ball, footwork, agility, shielding, dribbling, passing and receiving. As the player progress with individual skills we will introduce attacking and defending principles.
This is your chance to make it on a team and develop technical skills with your teammates.
WHO CAN JOIN THE PROGRAM:
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Girls Academy Ages 6-7: players born 2017-2016
GIRLS ACADEMY SELECTION PROCESS AGES 6-7 (born 2017-2016):
This is not a tryout, no player age 5-6 will be cut. This is an assessment session where all players participating will receive recommendation from our coaches to join either Academy ages 5-6, Football School, Clinics 45 or Mini Masters program.
We are not looking for the best players at this moment in time, we are looking for players ages 5-6 wanting to commit to 2 times per week technical training. We are here to go through a skillful process of creating gifted players and teams by age 8 or 9. All players participating in the assessment session will receive recommendation from our coaches to join either Academy ages 5-6, Football School, Clinics 45 or Mini Masters program.
WHERE DO PLAYERS GO IF THEY DON’T ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ACADEMY LEVEL?