Registration for Fall soccer

Through Sports Manager, a tool used by teams throughout New England, you can register using your credit card or Paypal account.

Late registration ends September 6. Through Sports Manager, a tool used by teams throughout New England, you can register using your credit card or Paypal account. Check the bottom of the registration page for info about supported browsers.

The cost of late registration is $95.

• There are discounts for families registering more than one child calculated automatically through online registration.
• If you volunteer to coach, after one season, your child will participate for free! Malden Youth Soccer pays for training and licensing for coaches. For the coach's discount, please speak to an age or travel coordinator.
• There are a limited number of scholarships available for people in financial need. Please go through the age or travel coordinator to request a scholarship.

Why register online?

• you know your contact information will be correct
• next time you register, you won't have to do any data entry
• you can do it now, so you won't miss the deadline
• you can use your credit card or paypal account rather than having to write a personal check

Placements: June 14, 2008

Please note: all U10, U12, and U14 players must attend Placements on June 14, 2008 (PDF). Your child's participation in Placements on June 14 will allow us to place her/him on the team that best matches their skill level as we have teams at different division levels. This evaluation is mandatory. If your child does not come, he/she will be placed on a team where there are openings.

For complete information about placements, please read the flyer (PDF).

For dates and times for in-person registration, please see the calendar.

Why do we have to sign up so early?

The Middlesex Youth Soccer League requires Malden Youth Soccer to turn in completed rosters for all teams in early July, along with a fee for each team entered. The number of teams that each member league of the MYSL enters into competition varies each year/season depending on player turnout. Once MYSL has received the thousands of entries into leagues for the season, they will spend nearly two months sorting them into divisions (trying to respect division membership requests from all the various leagues) and develop a workable schedule for competition.

As with Malden Youth Soccer staff, the Middlesex Youth Soccer Staff is composed of volunteers. This is the reason that such a long lead time is required in order to do a complete job. By extending our own deadline until mid-June, we are placing a large load on our own staff to assign all players who have registered to teams within a few short days after the deadline. We also cannot guarantee any room on our teams for anyone who attempts to register after this task has been completed.

But that is for travel teams, why the early deadline for In-City Teams?

It is a difficult task to recruit coaches for our teams and plan out a schedule, especially due to an often limited number of quality fields available in Malden. In order to lessen the load on our volunteer staff, we want to give them as much lead time as possible to plan out their seasons. In addition, it simply makes sense to match the travel and in-city signup dates to prepare parents for when their children graduate to our travel program.