2025-2026 Important Tryout Information
Pursuant to FYSA Rule 401.6, the FYSA Board of Directors determined that tryouts for the 2025-2026 season can be held no earlier than May 1, 2025.
Additionally, please be aware any pre-tryout activity advertisement should include the following verbiage:
“Current FYSA carded players outside of ‘Name of Affiliate’ are not eligible to tryout until May 1st. Furthermore, ‘Non-FYSA sanctioned’ ID/ Assessments will not be covered under any of the FYSA insurance policies.“
Tryout Rule:
401.6 TRY-OUTS
Organizations affiliated with FYSA may hold any try-out, player identification, or player assessmentactivity, related to the formation of teams for the next seasonal year involving players IN ALL AGEGROUPS on or after the date set by the BOD. The statewide try-out date shall be set by the BOD no laterthan March 1 of the current year. The statewide try-out date shall be no earlier than the first day in May, norlater than the Tuesday following Memorial Day.
Based on the date set by the FYSA BOD, each of the 4 regions will meet and decide if that date works fortheir affiliates, or if they wish to set a different date that will supersede the statewide date and apply to allaffiliates in their Region. No Region may set the try-out date outside the dates mentioned above. Regardlessof the date chosen, the following guidelines are to be met:
• Tryouts, player identification or player assessment are publicly advertised and open to all age-appropriateplayers.
• The name of the club/affiliate must be clearly stated, as well as its business address, and telephonenumber.
• No language can be incorporated which would deny the right or ability of any youth soccer player of thecorrect age to participate; or which would restrict eligibility for the team to any arbitrary prerequisitessuch as particular school, church, housing, subdivision, etc., nor can the advertisement serve in any way,directly or indirectly, to coerce or threaten players to try out for a particular member affiliate’s teamversus another.
• Players remain bound to their existing club for the current seasonal year pursuant to provisions containedin Rule 207.6.
• The poaching rule remains in effect. Contact outside of the context of tryouts and follow-ups to tryoutscould be deemed poaching.
•Violations will result in the Club’s affiliation with FYSA being reviewed, and re-affiliation may bedenied by the BOD.