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Each player is required to buy and wear a Valpo Soccer Club uniform. This youth soccer club uniform consists of a jersey, shorts, and socks. The cost for the soccer club uniform is $55 (a one-time fee). Each player is also required to wear soccer cleats (an additional cost borne by each player).

Another cost associated with playing on our Indiana soccer league is travel expense associated with transport to neighboring communities for game play. This includes both vehicle expense and fuel expense. On average, approximately half of each season’s Indiana youth soccer league games are played home, while half are played away. This cost can be minimized by carpooling.

The easiest way to register for our Northwest Indiana soccer club is to download the registration form online. Print the registration form, fill it out completely, taking care to include your child’s uniform number (if your son/daughter is a returning player) or uniform size (if your child is a new Valpo Soccer Club player). Please be sure to also include all requested documentation (copy of birth certificate, two small photos, and check for registration and uniform fees).

Valpo Soccer Club also holds registration days in the spring (for fall season) and in the fall (for spring season) for our Northwest Indiana soccer club.

Q:  My child played kids soccer or youth soccer for Valpo Soccer Club last fall. What do I need to register him or her this spring?

A:  If your child played in our Northwest Indiana soccer club last fall, all you need to provide for spring registration is the completed registration form and a check for our Indiana youth soccer league registration fees.

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Valpo Soccer Club makes every attempt to not change our youth soccer league uniform styles. We will only change our kids and youth soccer league uniform styles if we can no longer get the current style (such as when the manufacturer discontinues the style). In this case, we will allow a grace period of a couple seasons where the old style and the new style are both in play. After a couple seasons, our youth soccer league expects all kids soccer and youth soccer players to wear the same uniform.

In the event you need a new uniform for our Northwest Indiana soccer club, every attempt will be made to see that your child receives the same player number.

Skill level is obviously an important factor. The additional skill challenges of playing good teams from other towns, as well as the additional physical challenges that our youth soccer league coaches and trainers provide through regular conditioning and training, pose additional hurdles for your child.

Additionally, our youth soccer league teams are smaller and participate in small-side games so that, on an age-specific basis, fewer players are on the field at any one time, requiring greater effort and individual participation by each youth soccer league player. 

On average, our youth soccer league players will touch the ball many more times during practices and games than players in the Parks League system or other in-house soccer programs.  As a result, there are more physical demands on our youth soccer league players than would be expected in the Parks League kid’s soccer program. 

Our Northwest Indiana soccer club also expects more from their youth soccer and kid’s soccer coaches and trainers. For example, Valpo Soccer Club coaches are expected to obtain at least an E-license coaching certification and attend training sessions. 

A: Volunteering with our Indiana soccer league is so easy! Just contact one of our soccer club board members with your desire to become involved or contact us directly.  We will then invite you to one of our board meetings so you can get a feel for what we do and how we operate – and how you can best fit into our Indiana youth soccer league.

For additional information on volunteer opportunities within our Northwest Indiana soccer club, click here to contact us.

Q: How much time is involved with volunteering for your Northwest Indiana soccer club?

A: The time commitment related to volunteering for our Indiana soccer league is entirely up to you and the tasks you take on.  Obviously, coaching a youth soccer team or assisting in coaching a kid’s soccer team is something we can always use. This sort of volunteering would require a few hours each week during normal soccer playing seasons. However, volunteering to serve on our board can require several hours each week, even during the off seasons. 

A: No experience is required to volunteer as a Valpo Soccer Club board member or to act a parent volunteer. We will support any parent who is interested in becoming involved. If you are interested in becoming a kids soccer or youth soccer coach, however, you will need to earn a beginning level coaches license, which can be completed during weekend coaches training sessions held locally.

For additional information on volunteer opportunities within our Northwest Indiana soccer club, click here to contact us.

Q: What other type of help does the Valpo Soccer Club need?

A: Our Northwest Indiana soccer club is always in need of volunteer assistance!

From registration to field management to advertising and marketing, our Indiana youth soccer league would appreciate volunteers in any of these areas. We also periodically need assistance with smaller focus groups to accomplish a specific task.  Your commitment to volunteering with our youth soccer league is all about what you wish to make of it!

A: All teams in our Indiana youth soccer league practice at various locations throughout Valparaiso, based upon the convenience and preference of the coach and their team. Common practice locations include city parks such as Valplayso, Kirchoff, and Forest Park, as well as public schools including TJ Middle School, Memorial, Northview, Cooks Corner, Flint Lake and Hayes Leonard. For additional information and maps on our home-field kids soccer and youth soccer playing locations, click here.

Coaches will notify their players as to where they will hold practices, as well as when practices will be held.

Kid’s soccer and youth soccer games are split between home field play at Westside Park in Valparaiso and away play at other fields. For additional information on our locations for youth soccer home field play, click here.

On occasion, home games may be held at locations other than Westside Park, including Old Fairgrounds Park or Valplayso (such as when scheduling conflicts or special arrangements are made).

The youth soccer year starts in August, with both fall and spring seasons. There are normally eight games in the spring season (April through the beginning of June) and ten games in the fall season (middle of August to the end of October). Games are not held on holiday weekends, including Easter, Memorial Day and Labor Day. Most games are on Sundays, with one or two Saturday games per season.

If you have other questions not addressed by those asked above, please contact us for further information and assistance.