Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association
Travel / Select (L5) · Boys & Girls
The US Youth Soccer state association for New York east of Interstate 81.
Overview
ENYYSA is the US Youth Soccer state association for New York City, Long Island, Westchester and every part of upstate New York east of Route 81, which takes in the Capital District and Central New York. New York has two state associations and this is the eastern one. It was founded in 1972 as the Southern New York Youth Soccer Association and renamed in 1984.
It registers players aged 5 to 19, runs the State Cup and the state Olympic Development Program, and charters the ten member leagues that run day-to-day play, so the league a club names at a tryout usually sits under ENYYSA rather than being ENYYSA.
- The official US Youth Soccer body for the area
- Runs the State Cup and the state ODP, and charters the ten leagues most local play happens in
- A governing body, not a league, it sets the framework, not the level
Who plays here
383 clubs we catalogue play in ENYYSA. Open one to see every league its teams actually enter, not just this one.
06 United FCTravel / SelectNY
5 Star Soccer AcademyState & PremierNY
AB7 Future Soccer AcademyState & PremierStaten Island, NY
AlbaTravel / SelectBronx, NY
Albany SCTravel / SelectAlbany, NY
Albertson Soccer ClubState & PremierNYAlbertson SUSAPre-ProfessionalCentral Islip, NY
ALBION SC BrooklynNational EliteBrooklyn, NY
Aldirtor SoccerTravel / SelectNYAll Faith Soccer LeagueTravel / SelectNY
Amityville SCState & PremierNYAmityville Soccer LeagueTravel / SelectAmityville, NY
College commitments
445 college commitments from 18 New York and New Jersey member clubs, taken from public commitment lists. Those two states are the only ones these counts cover.
These counts cover this league’s New York and New Jersey member clubs only. “Unverified” means the school matched but the program level did not. No league publishes college placement by youth league, so read this as one slice of two states rather than a scoreboard. We never print a current youth player’s name.
Rules
What this league asks before your kid can register: the ages it runs, whether they can still play the high school season, and who sanctions it. The college-exposure and cost lines are our read of the league, not a figure the league publishes.
Age groups
U6-U19
Geographic footprint
State
College exposure (our read)
N/A
Cost level (our read)
Low
Governing body
US Youth Soccer
Founded
1972
The other leagues at this level
Leagues on the same rung of the ladder, so you can hold a club’s pitch against what the alternatives actually ask of a family.
| Factor | ENYYSA This league | BWNYJSL | Thruway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Boys & Girls | Boys & Girls | Boys & Girls |
| Ages | U6-U19 | — | — |
| Clubs in directory | 383 clubs | 10 clubs | 9 clubs |
| HS soccer ok? | — | — | — |
| Footprint | State | Regional | Regional |
| What it is | The US Youth Soccer state association for New York east of Interstate 81. | Buffalo/WNY Junior Soccer League (BWNYJSL), a NY travel/club league. | Thruway League (Thruway), a NY travel/club league. |
Pathway from here
Most club players in the country are on this rung, and staying here is a normal plan. If your kid wants more, the next move is a state or regional league and it happens at a tryout. What decides how much they develop here is how many minutes they get and who is coaching them.
Which ENYYSA clubs are inside your drive time?
Put in your ZIP and the finder shows the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association clubs near you alongside everything else at that level. Or tell us about your kid and we’ll rank them with the reasoning spelled out.