Club Mission

The Woodland Soccer Club (WSC) is proud to provide recreational soccer opportunities to more than 1,250 children residing within and around our club boundaries in Seattle (Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge).

Recreational soccer is soccer that is open to any member of the public who qualifies to participate under WSC guidelines. There are no tryouts - if you can register, you can play. Players are assigned to teams by our club registrars. Coaches are not allowed to select their players, and parents are not allowed to influence the placement of their children onto teams.

The club's goal is to distribute players among teams in such a way that there are no dominant teams and no deficient teams. Parity among teams and enjoyable, competitive games are our overriding priority.

Woodland Soccer Club is the officially sanctioned organization charged with providing recreational youth soccer to the children who live within our boundaries. WSC is a member of the Seattle Youth Soccer Association, which is in turn a part of the Washington State Youth Soccer Association.

WSC is proud to to be an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization. It relies on effort and passion from participating families throughout the year to prepare and stage quality soccer games for over 1,000 youth every fall. If you are able, in recognition of the years of fun and excitement WSC has provided in your community, please consider giving back t by volunteering some time to help the club function and flourish. Visit our VOLUNTEER section to learn how you can contribute.

"There is no greater joy than spending sunny Saturdays at Wallingford Park with the community and with the children as they chase a ball across a field."

- Excerpted from a letter written by a Woodland Soccer Club parent in the fall of 2009.

Club Boundary

Woodland Soccer Club

As a Seattle Youth Soccer Association member, WSC’s designated boundary is defined as the area delimited by:

• N/NW 85th St

• 8th Ave NW

• I-5

• Lake Washington Ship Canal
  & Lake Union

Other SYSA Clubs

Refer to the SYSA website for a map & boundaries of the other SYSA clubs.

The goal of these boundaries is to fairly distribute oversight responsibility and resources (primarily field space) across the city. There is no requirement that you live within any given boundary (other clubs may be more appropriate and more convenient in relation to work, school, etc.).

Club History

Woodland Soccer Club is proud to call Lower Woodland its home field, grounds that have been a historic home to soccer in Seattle for more than 100 years. Seattle’s first organized soccer matches were played at Woodland Park in 1906 (!!!), while Lower Woodland field as we know it now has been a central site for Seattle youth soccer from its beginnings. Today, as Woodland Soccer Club approaches its 50th year as a club, it continues to welcome in new generations of WSC players and families!

WSC’s crest, bringing together an evergreen tree and a soccer ball in a nod to the club’s namesake park, has served as the club’s insignia since the club’s founding in the late 1970s.

Above, the Todd Dry Docks take on the Electro Dentists in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 spectators at the original Upper Woodland field, circa 1927. Barney Kempton, Washington's first inductee into the National Soccer Hall of Fame, featured in the match pictured here.

Jack Charlton (right) played with the '66 WC England team. He's seen here with Walter (left) and Brian Schmetzer (middle), part of the Lake City Hawks team in the early '70s which included Peter Hattrup & Fred Hamel.

 Club Kit, Color & Logo

Kit/Uniform

Colors

Logo

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