THE VIRGINIA SPRING 2025 STATE CUP
Official qualifying tournament for the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship Series (NCS)
State Office ContactS
| Ray Ford | Director of Events | ray@vysa.com | O: (540) 693-1430 ext. 223 C: (434) 258-9711 |
The Spring State Cup Accepted Teams
OVERVIEW
The Virginia State Cup brings together the highest quality teams across Virginia and the District of Columbia to decide who will be crowned the State Champion.
The Virginia State Cup offers both US Club Soccer and State Association clubs to collaborate, aimed at providing our member teams and families a best-in-class experience by re-establishing a single state cup competition.
US CLUB & VYSA want to bring ALL the best players together for the Good of the Game!
This tournament style format is better for the competitive teams and clubs in Virginia. Currently, the highly competitive teams in Virginia are playing in several league platforms and therefore do not play each other.
Players will be observed in the group play competition for possible inclusion/recommendation to participate in ODP and ID2 programs.
Recognition awards (chosen by the participating coaches) in each age group/gender (from teams in Semi-Finals & Finals):
MVP
Best Offensive & Defensive Player
Best 11
All players/coaches/team managers receive a medal at the award ceremony, both teams in the final will receive a trophy.
Eligible Age Groups
Spring: 11U – 14U, Boys and Girls
Fall: 15U – 19U, Boys and Girls
Important Spring 2025 Dates:
| December 16th 2024 | Registration deadline |
| January 15th 2025 | Seeding & Draw release |
| January 27th | Preliminary games schedule deadline |
| March 5th | Roster freeze |
| April 27th | Play in games completed |
| May 10th & 11th | ALL Group Play Games at PVSTC, 2 Boys & 1 Girls games on Saturday, Girls 2 games & Boys 1 game on Sunday. |
| May 31st & June 1st | State Cup State Cup Semi-Finals & Finals at PVSTC. |
| Publix Virginia Soccer Training Center, Fredericksburg (PVSTC) |
Recommendations: This event is focused on those teams seeking to play in the highest level of State competition and the potential to advance onto Regional & National Events.
Fee Structure
Registration is $775 per team. 3 group games and possibly a semi-final & final game.
Note: Teams losing a First Round of PLAY IN game will be refunded $400!)
Tournament Rules: The State Cup Policies and the National Championship Series Policies can be viewed at the link below. It is the responsibility of each competing team to access these rules and become familiar with them. All competing teams are expected to be aware of the official State Cup rules when applying for competition. Click here to view the complete list of rules or view the ‘Rules’ tab.
Communication: To keep all teams up to date on game schedules, results, and sometimes changes to fields and times, it is important for each team to provide a primary contact and an email address. During the competition, the administrative information will be distributed by email. The game schedules and game results will be available here, on ‘The State Cup’ page at vysa.com.