Rancho Santa Fe Youth Soccer

Our Mission: Soccer, It ’s More Than a Game

Rancho Santa Fe Soccer’s mission is to develop the passion for the game throughout the community and through soccer have fun, build character and develop and an appreciation for the rich spectrum of the world’s cultures. We believe and commit all that we do to understanding soccer is more than a game. To accomplish our mission, we pledge to provide all of the Rancho Santa Fe Soccer community with the resources and support needed to learn about the game, and for all youth who want to play, we pledge to provide the the highest level of coaching, the finest fields and equipment, and to organize quality competitions for all levels of play.

Player Divisions - Academy and Attack

The Academy division is RSF Soccer's recreational program which is more casual, with volunteer coaches, less expensive and less intense soccer. The Attack division is the competitive program. Attack is for the more serious players with professional coaches and a more aggressive and competitive nature.

Other Information

Loren Henry, Director of Operations
Rancho Santa Fe Youth Soccer
Email: Loren@rsfsoccer.com
Telephone: 760.479.1500 main, 760.479.1501 fax

The RSF Soccer Office is open 10am-5pm Monday thru Friday. The Winter hours are 10am - 2pm.

Team Numbering System

Because the BU14 or GU11 designators change every year as the players become older we have adopted a Team numbering system that does not require change each year. This is done by referring to the age "cut-off" year instead of the current calendar year. Our teams are designated by the year of the birthday limit dates established for the 'U8' through 'U19' age' numbers for the League Divisions in which they will play. Example: a boy born on or after August first of 1998 must play the 2008 Season at the Under 10 level (or older); next season at U 11 or older and so on. So all players in a Boys or Girls '00,' say G00W team, must have been born ON or AFTER August first 2000. And year after year they can play with the same team identified by the same number, as they get older. Any given squad of players, and their parents, don't have to bother with a new team number and a new website ID each year.The last G and the last W refer to the Green or White levels of team play - sometimes referred to as the 'A' or the 'B' team.

Board of Directors and Staff

RSF Soccer Club History

Rancho Santa Fe Soccer’s roots go back 30 years to middle of the 1970s when a small group of men filled a passion for a game of a rather foreign nature brought together 27 boys at the community center each week to learn their passion. These founders understood that, more than any other sport, could at once bring together a small community and immerse that community in the richest spectrum of the world’s cultures. Back then, teams were loosely formed among those who showed up, they had all come to Rancho Santa Fe from different parts of the country, and in many cases from other countries, they spoke with different accents, had different faiths, and represented different generations, but as they gathered each week, they shared one language: soccer. The old and young players would watch the game, talk about the game, and play the game, and, with that, the Rancho Santa Fe community had been changed forever.

As word of the wonder of soccer spread, the passion for the game spread, the ever-increasing numbers required more fields on which to play, and the community came together and with their bare hands and the ingenuity peaked by necessity, members of the community developed a overgrown, watersoaked thicket into one of the finest pitches in the land. More and more could now come to watch, talk and learn about and play the game.

And come, they did. From from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Rancho Santa Fe Soccer grew ten-fold. And for many, soccer was their first introduction to the community.   But, with over 300 players of all different ages and athletic abilities all turning up at the pitch each week to learn about the game, the time had come to bring in both professional training and organize teams into levels of play that would allow all players to learn and play the game to the best of their abilities, and develop the passion for the game throughout the community.

Rancho Santa Fe Soccer brought in Malcolm Tovey who had developed his passion for the game while growing up in Bristol, England and for the last 16-years had been the head of the Surf soccer program. With Malcolm at the helm, Rancho Fe Soccer brought together one of the finest staffs of coaches and trainers in the country who shared not only the skills and talent to coach at the highest level but a true passion for the game.   

And, since their arrival, by any measure, Rancho Santa Fe soccer has flourished. Over the last decade, the number of girls and boys who play Rancho Santa Fe Soccer has grown more then threefold from 300 to over 1,000. This includes boys and girls of all ages and abilities, from 5 year-olds experiencing their first touch of the ball on the pitch to 18 year old competing for the National championship.    But, despite the tremendous growth, soccer in Rancho Santa Fe continues to not only bring together the community of Rancho Santa Fe but also to introduce its girls and boys to the world’s rich diveristy of cultrual and ethnic heritages.   

Indeed, much of this continued success has been achieved, because Rancho Fe Soccer not only has not lost touch with its roots, but continues to feed off the passion of its founders. This passion is shared each regularly at the pitch as a number of the founders of all ages continue to gather regularly at the pitch to watch the game, talk about the game, and even play the game. For them, and for thousands who have been apart of Rancho Fe Soccer over the last few decades, soccer is more than a game.