INTERESTED IN JOINING A CLUB TRAVEL TEAM FOR THE 2025-2026 Fall, Winter & Spring Season!!
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Playing on a Club soccer team requires a higher level of commitment from both players and families compared to recreational select teams. It's ideal for players who are passionate about soccer and are eager to improve. Club Soccer involves tryouts, more training sessions, and a higher level of competition. Players should be interested in enhancing their technical, tactical, and fitness/speed skills.
At Alliance Soccer Club, we're genuinely committed to providing the best environment for your child's development. Our professional coaches are not only licensed but also have extensive experience, having played, or coached the game at a higher level than what's found in recreational select soccer. Some of our coaches have represented their national teams, others have played professionally, and virtually all have played collegiate soccer. We provide continuous professional development for our coaches to ensure top-quality training.
We understand the importance of facilities and fields for training. That's why we ensure that they are consistently available for our sessions. The club provides eight to ten months of facilities so players can improve year-round.
Join us at Alliance Soccer Club, where we're not just building players; we're building futures.
Alliance Soccer Club Academy I Soccer Program
Birth Years: 2018, 2017, 2016 (Boys & Girls)
Leagues: NCSL & EDP CMSSL League
Next Level of the Game:
- Alliance Soccer Club was created to offer the best possible learning environment for the children of our community who are ready for the next level of soccer.
Primary Goal:
- Alliance SC’s primary goal is to provide players with a fun, challenging and competitive learning environment, with the opportunity to play at the highest level when desired.
Age-Specific Curriculum:
- This age range provides an opportunity for players to build a bond with their teammates while ensuring their development.
- The group has a specific curriculum molded to the players to maximize their development.
Practices:
- Practices are two to three times a week, on turf or local grass soccer fields.
Training:
- Additional clinics such finishing, defense, offense, foot skills and goalie training are available throughout the season. Teams also train indoors during the winter months at no additional cost to families.
Leagues
- Teams play in the EDP CMSSL & NCSL leagues, divisions vary from one being the highest level of play and nine the lowest and it all depends on the team’s skill level of play as to where they are placed.
Games:
- Home games are located at ONP #4 & #5.
- Away games vary depending on the league your team is in.
Tournaments:
- All teams participate in a minimum of one tournament per season.
Licensed Coaches:
- Coaches hold National D, National C or UEFA Licenses, with years of coaching experience. There are several current or former Collegiate and High School Coaches & Players
Contact:
- LOUYAA remains the parent organization, and Alliance Soccer Club’s registered players will be a part of the greater LOUYAA organization.
- Find out more details by emailing clubmgr@alliancesoccerclub.com
Alliance Soccer Club Travel Soccer Program
Birth Years: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 & 2011 (Boys & Girls)
Leagues: NCSL & EDP
Player Development:
- Created to offer the best environment for whole player development.
- Curriculum and programs are designed around the players in each age group to maximize full player development and prepare players for High School and College Teams.
Primary Goal:
- Provide players with a challenging and competitive learning environment while enhancing developmental skills.
League Participation:
- Teams play in the EDP & NCSL Leagues.
- The Director of coaching and Technical Director determine the appropriate level of play and which league and division to place each team in.
Tournaments:
- All teams participate in a minimum of 3-6 tournaments per playing year.
Practices:
- Two to three times a week, on either turf or local grass soccer fields.
Training:
- Players will have an opportunity to train with our speed and agility coaches and professional technical coaches bi-weekly.
- Additional clinics such finishing, defense, offense, foot skills and goalie are available throughout the season.
Games:
- Home games located at Ballenger Creek Turf field, Utica Park Turf, and Othello Turf.
- Away games vary depending on the league your team is in.
Coaches:
- Our Coaches hold National D, National C or UEFA Licenses, with years of coaching experience.
- Several are current or former Collegiate and High School coaches.
Contact:
Email CLUBMGR@alliancesoccerclub.com for more details.
Alliance Soccer Club Travel Soccer Program
Birth Years: 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007 (Boys & Girls)
Leagues: EDP & US Youth Soccer National League Teams
Player Development:
- Created to offer the best environment for whole player development.
- Curriculum and programs are age-specific to maximize player development and prepare for High School and College Teams.
Primary Goal:
- Provide a challenging and competitive learning environment while optimizing technical & tactical skills. Preparing players for Collegiate Play.
League Participation:
- Teams play in EDP & USYS leagues.
- The Director of coaching and Technical Director determine the appropriate level of play.
Tournaments:
- All teams participate in a minimum of 4-6 tournaments per playing year including College Showcase tournaments.
Practices:
- Held two to three times a week on turf or local grass soccer fields.
Training:
- Every team at this level trains bi-weekly with a Club Trainer to offer new insights, evaluations, and concepts in conjunction with the curriculum.
- Additional clinics such finishing, defense, offense, foot skills and goalie are available throughout the season.
Games:
- Home - Ballenger Creek Turf field, Utica Park Turf & Othello Park turf.
- Away games vary depending on the league.
Coaches:
- Our Coaches hold National D, National C or UEFA Licenses, with years of coaching experience.
- Several are current or former Collegiate and High School coaches.
College Bound Players:
- We organize a college recruitment seminar elucidating the essential steps to garner attention from preferred colleges. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive seminar covering the entire college selection process from finding the right college for your player, academic registration, scholarships and more.
- Highlight videos can be created from our game VEO footage.
- College Seminars are held to guide players through the soccer recruiting process and the academic registration & scholarship process.
Contact:
Email CLUBMGR@alliancesoccerclub.com for more details.
USYS National League P.R.O.
National League P.R.O. (Player. Recruitment. Opportunity.) serves as the competitive national league format in which teams compete for direct advancement to the annual US Youth Soccer National Championships. Teams earn their place into National League P.R.O. each season through their performance in the Conferences.
USYS National League MID-ATLANTIC EDP CONFERENCE
The US Youth Soccer Mid Atlantic EDP Conference is one of 13 Conferences under the US Youth Soccer National League in the Multi-State Tier. The Mid Atlantic EDP Conference consists of teams primarily from Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The top teams in the Conference will earn advancement to the US Youth Soccer Regional Championships, part of the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series. Mid Atlantic Conference teams also have a pathway to participate in the new National League Showcase Series.
EDP- Eastern Development Program
EDP strives to attain a level of performance above industry standard for league and tournament administrators. EDP offers clubs a strong competitive league bracket with minimal travel, developmentally-appropriate opposition and a maximum average goal differential of 2.0.
The goal of the league is to provide a 'Good Game Every Week' in order to maintain elite performance standards amongst young players from U9-U23.
NCSL- National Capital Soccer League
National Capital Soccer League (NCSL) is the DC Metro area's premier promotion-relegation soccer league, serving approximately 30,000 travel soccer players every year representing many of the most successful clubs in the nation. It is a club-based league, which requires clubs to meet league standards in order be considered for entry and must be voted in by other member clubs, and schedules games at the team-to-team level in order provide the most appropriate and competitive game-day experience.
It offers appropriate soccer competition for boys and girls teams aged 7 through 19. With approximately 1,100 teams competing in eleven age groups, NCSL is one of the oldest, largest, and most well-known travel soccer leagues in the nation. It currently features 72 member clubs centered in Maryland, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia.
MEET THE ALLIANCE SOCCER CLUB 2024-2025 COACHING STAFF & TEAMS
Director Of Coaching Illya Topovich
Director Topovich has devoted his evenings and weekends to youth soccer. His passion is helping youth soccer players find their love for soccer, while developing them to their fullest potential.
Director Topovich has been with the LOUYAA soccer program for 21 years and the Alliance SC program for 13 years.
Director Topovich loves being a part of LOUYAA Alliance’s soccer program, coaching multiple age groups at all levels across the Club. He has coached U4-U18 at the Academy, Recreational and Club Travel level, as well as mentored various coaches throughout the years. Director Topovich currently holds his National C License.
Director Topovich is the Clubs Director Of Coaching, he trains and recruits new Club, Academy & Recreational Coaches while mentoring and guiding existing Coaches.