​Sporting Athletic Club is a youth soccer organization created to provide local Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania boys and girls youth soccer players the opportunity to compete at all levels of youth soccer in our following league platforms: MLS NEXT, Girls Academy League, National Academy League, Regional Academy League, Acela League, EDP League, and Central League. The Sporting Athletic Club Network is a collaborative player pathway relationship formed alongside our founding member clubs Lower Merion SC, Radnor SC, and Sporting Delaware (re-branded to Sporting Athletic Club in Fall 2023). The Sporting Athletic Club Network will be a collaboration of clubs working alongside each other to help families find the most suitable environment for each player. At the core of “Our Network” will be the founder partner clubs, formed from Sporting Delaware, Lower Merion SC, Radnor SC.

​No, this does not affect any current club recreational teams. All individual club programming for Lower Merion SC and Radnor SC will remain the same. The Sporting Athletic Club travel team programs providing an additional level to the player pathways provided by each founding partnership club.

Yes. Sporting Athletic Club, Lower Merion SC, and Radnor SC, and outside players may try out and play for Sporting Athletic Club in the 2024/25 season.

Please visit sportingac.com/tryouts to sign up for tryouts for the 2024/25 season.

​Sporting Athletic Club teams will be formed and finalized by the end of May and will begin training in August. Teams will be formed based upon Sporting Athletic Club tryouts, recommendations by current coaches of founding partnership teams, and potential outside players attending founding partnership team training sessions. Offers will begin to be made after the first round of tryouts and can be made until mid-May.

​Training sessions and competitions will be held at Chase Fieldhouse (401 Garasches Ln, Wilmington, DE 19801), WSFS Bank Sportsplex (2501 Seaport Dr, Chester, PA 19013), and Cabrini University (1250 Upper Gulph Rd, Wayne, PA 19087) depending on age, team level, and league.

MLS NEXT, Girls Academy League, National Academy League, Regional Academy League, Acela League, EDP League, and Central League.

This will be determined by the staff of Sporting Athletic Club. We do want to maximize the playing potential of all players and we will encourage player movement in training and games between age groups and sometimes even movement between genders if we believe this will benefit an individual. However, this will remain a player-by-player decision.

Sporting Athletic Club has partnered with Adidas in launching our 2024-2025 club uniforms. Uniform details will be released soon.

​We encourage families to find the right fit for child when it comes to their child’s playing ability. We understand that this is sometimes more difficult for parents than for children to come to terms with. However, at days end children want to have fun when they play soccer, regardless of level. If this means that they are not quite ready, or will ever be ready for the “highest” level but are enjoying their play, we value this as the greatest achievement. We probably speak for a lot of coaches when we speak of maintaining the importance of fun in sports as an end.

Please email info@sportingac.com directly.