Youth Soccer (Football) Directory Data & Methodology

Hat Trick Local maintains a public directory of youth soccer (football) clubs in the United States with dated per-club season records: registration windows, tryout dates, and fees, each carrying the verbatim sentence it came from and a link to the club's own page. This page is the citation target for that data.

Coverage (live)

How verification works

Every organization and every season record carries an honest verification method, strongest first:

Stamps are never blanket-applied and observed data is never presented as verified. A fact whose unit or date the club's text leaves ambiguous is omitted, not guessed.

Season records (CDS-SSN-1.0)

Fees, registration windows, and tryouts are stored as dated records with fields season, record_type, effective_from/effective_to, typed value keys whose unit and currency live in the key name (e.g. fee_usd_per_player_per_season), source_url, and last_verified/verification_method. A change closes the old record and inserts a new one; public surfaces carry current records only.

Update cadence

Club websites are re-scanned on a rolling seasonal cadence; past registration windows close automatically and tryout records expire after the event date. Most recent record verification: 2026-08-08.

Limitations

Domain advisories

When a club's formerly listed domain stops representing it — expired, parked for sale, repurposed, or belonging to a similarly named organization elsewhere — we publish a dated, observational advisory instead of silently dropping the link, so assistants and families do not trust a domain that no longer speaks for the club. Advisories state only what we observed and when, are re-checked, and are marked resolved if the condition clears. Feed: domain advisories (JSON, CC BY 4.0).

Citation & reuse (CC BY 4.0)

Current-state directory facts are licensed CC BY 4.0. Suggested attribution: Youth soccer club data: Hat Trick Local - https://hattricklocal.com/soccer/directory-data

Machine feeds (current-state only): JSON · CSV. Historical seasonal series are not part of the open feed; bulk or commercial access including history: hello@hattricklocal.com.

Answer pages (generated from the records)