Indiana Youth Soccer State Cup

About the Indiana Youth Soccer State Cup

WHEN:	Preliminary Games 5/15-18, Final Games 5/31-6/2
WHERE:	Various locations around Indiana
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, Jun 9, 2008

Indiana supports two major Cups annually. The Indiana Challange Cup and the Indiana State Cup.

The Indiana State Cup is part of the US Youth Soccer National Championship. This National Series is the country's most prestigious national youth soccer tournament, providing approximately 185,000 players on over 10,000 teams from US Youth Soccer State Associations the opportunity to showcase their soccer skills against the best competition in the nation while emphasizing teamwork, discipline and fair play.

The US Youth Soccer National Championships cap a yearlong series of competitions for boys and girls teams in multiple age brackets as teams earn their way from the top teams in their state to the regional championship tournaments. US Youth Soccer State Champions and selected wildcard teams through US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues in most age groups are eligible to compete in one of four US Youth Soccer Regional Championships. The champions in the Under-14 through Under-19 age brackets from each regional event will converge in July for the US Youth Soccer National Championships.

Annually the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series provides the nation's top collegiate coaches with the premier stage to identify and scout the most coveted players in the country. In 2007, over 500 coaches attended the US Youth Soccer Regional Championships including the majority of the top 25 men's and women's programs based on the final 2007 NSCAA/adidas National Rankings for NCAA Division I schools.