Tryout Registration

For Annual Tryouts, all candidates should pre-register via their family soccer account. On-site registrations will be accepted for new arrivals only if necessary.

Please pre-register for the highest level of program you are interested in participating with (not both tryout levels).  Players will be considered for all programs below the registered tryout program, but will not be considered for those above.  The order of select programs is as follows:  (from highest to lowest)  Augusta United Travel (Premier & Classic), Augusta United Challenge.

Late Tryouts and Mid-Year Tryouts do NOT have pre-registrations.  All candidates must register on-site the day of these tryouts.

Travel Age Group Rules

Important: All travel candidates must tryout in their birth date specific age-group. Please double-check your birth date with the tryout information below.

2024-2025 Birth Year Age Groups
U9 – 2016       *Challenge Only
U10 – 2015      *Challenge Only
U11 – 2014
U12 – 2013
U13 – 2012
U14 – 2011
U15 – 2010
U16 – 2009
U17 – 2008
U18 – 2007
U19 – 2006

All players seeking to “play up” an age group should contact Coaching Director Jeff Darling ([email protected]).

In general, “playing up” standards are as follows:

• Players should not play up below U13, especially between U10 and U12 or U12 to U13.
• Limited playing up is allowed with AUSC staff permission at U13 and older age groups.
• In order to form healthy team rosters, players from multiple age groups may need to be combined within one team.  This is done with the supervision and permission of Augusta United’s coaching director.

Challenge Age Group Rules

Challenge Teams are formed in the following age groups for both boys and girls:

U10 – (2015, 2016 birth years)
U12 – (2013, 2014 birth years)
U15 – (2010, 2011, 2012 birth years)

Age groups in the Challenge program are multiple year groupings and naturally provide opportunities for players to play both with older and younger players as they progress through the program.  Players should not seek to play up age groups unless given permission specifically by the Augusta United Coaching Director.  No players may play down age groups in any select program.

Gender Rules

Girls are eligible to tryout for boys programs. In the Travel Program girls must seek the approval of the Director of Coaching prior to trying out for boys teams. In the Challenge Program, no approval is necessary to tryout. Girls trying out for boys teams must register on site on the day of the tryout. No online boys registration will be available for girls.

Trying out for a boys team does not merit consideration for a girls team. Girls wishing to be considered for a girls team as well as a boys team must tryout separately for both programs. Girls may try out for both but will only be placed in one (boys first, girls second).

GoalKeeper Tryouts

Players interested in being evaluated as goalkeepers will be evaluated as such and may also be evaluated as a field player.  These evaluations will be done during the tryout times assigned for each age group.

Specific goalkeeper evaluations will be done for U11 and older players in the Travel Program.

In the Challenge program goalkeeper evaluations will be conducted at U12 and older. There are no specific evaluations conducted for goalkeepers at U10 Challenge. Players may declare their interest in playing goalkeeper and this will be utilized in U10 Challenge team formation, but all players will be evaluated as a field player.

Tryout Evaluators

Evaluators at tryouts are Augusta United SC staff members, coaches or other qualified soccer experts. Augusta United SC seeks the most knowledgeable and committed coaches to serve as evaluators during tryouts. Evaluators are assigned by the Director of Coaching.

During Annual Tryouts, candidates will be assessed by multiple evaluators assuring a fair and balanced evaluation. Parents are not used to evaluate their own children at Travel Tryouts. Parent Evaluators may have limited input with their own child’s evaluation at Challenge Tryouts.

Tryout Announcements

Annual Tryout Announcements will be posted in player’s Augusta United SC Accounts.  Either the team you have been selected for, or a Not Selected message will appear at the top of your available programs list.  Please click on the team name to read more about the program.

Late and Mid-year Tryout Selections will be notified directly with instructions on how to join existing teams for the upcoming seasons.

For all tryouts, Augusta United SC staff has the final say on player selections and team assignments.

Tryout Reschedules

In case of inclement weather please check the Augusta United SC weather line on the website for cancellation and reschedule information.

Tryouts will be rescheduled on a case by case basis to available dates and the new schedule will be posted online. Make-up tryouts are only done on a program-wide basis and individual tryouts will not be arranged.