United Soccer Club was established to promote and enhance the soccer culture in the Huntsville, Alabama area with the objective of providing a positive soccer experience for youth players at all levels. The Club was founded on principles of Integrity, Loyalty, and Commitment that serve as its foundation. With these ideals, players, coaches, and parents can truly be United in their goal of a successful organization.  

To read more about United Soccer Club and who we are and what we mean, please read our manifesto. 

USC strives to develop players for all levels of play including high school, college, professional, or even adult league later in their lives.
Our Coaching Staff represents a highly experienced, professional group of coaches in the Mid South region, who promote a common playing/coaching style throughout the club and bring an international flare to their coaching. 

• USC believes in the importance of affording our players with the proper amount of time of training with our coaches in a fun, continuously challenging environment. 
   
• USC believes in the importance of a proper training to game ratio.  There will not be games every weekend of the season.  Please understand some of this is by design to give players rest and recovery time, especially in the height of their season.   USC schedules the proper amount of training sessions on a weekly basis according to the commitment of the group, versus playing multiple games per week or multiple games every weekend.  This differs from many clubs whom promote more games and tournaments over player development.
   
• USC aims to produce technically proficient and tactically intelligent soccer players, who can play the game in a possession (passing) based, creative attacking style. Therefore, our training sessions focus on technical repetition and possession exercises, providing players with opportunities for frequent repetitions with the ball via passing, receiving, and dribbling techniques and exercises.
   
• USC ensures our players get the proper amount of repetitions of passing, receiving, and dribbling in pressure situations.  This requires our players to find solutions in order to maintain possession, rather than just clearing the ball long, away from pressure every time.  Our coaches understand that in order to develop confidence and technical skill, they must be patient with our players and teach them multiple styles of play.  Learning from mistakes and wrong choices results in our players’ growth and development.  We also value and promote parent education, thus our coaching staff regularly communicates our vision and values to parents throughout the season.  We understand that player development is a process, and continuously reinforce this to our players and players’ parents.

• In addition to teaching the game of soccer, USC seeks to promote sportsmanship and leadership amongst our athletes. Character development is one of our ultimate goals: through emphasizing focus and self-discipline, we hope to teach the idea that accountability and responsibility are necessary life-skills.  USC players receive a terrific soccer education and also develop values such as teamwork, perseverance, worth ethic, and mental toughness.

With consistent effort and the application of many years of experience and positive perspective, we have seen our programs raise the level of soccer in our community setting the standard of soccer in Alabama with many of our teams leading the state in state league and tournament championships, as well as, consistent performances in our USYS Mid South Regional Conference. We have had teams competing in the top levels of that league with some age groups consistently winning the league in recent  years qualifying for National League competitions exposing our players to higher level play where we have been very competitive. We also have some relationships with various MLS Next Youth Academies exposing our players and staff to the highest standard of youth soccer in America, and as a result of our ability to provide meaningful competitions at these levels we have developed relationships with multiple MLS Youth Academies where players from our program have moved on to pursue their dreams of playing at the highest level.

The club crest has the three principles on which our club is founded. 

Integrity, Loyalty, and Commitment. 

We believe in doing things based on these principles, with a positive perspective and a deep passion for the game, we can provide an experience to our community that enables current & future generations of players to continue to progress in their education, passion and development in the beautiful game of soccer.

All youth soccer leagues provide competition, but depending on your child's development, the commitment of your team members, and your family's commitment level, which is it the best for you?   Some clubs are part of multiple umbrellas and split their teams, sending their "top team" down a certain path and their other teams down other paths.   
To really understand the level of play in each league, you must know how deep the player pool/age group is from each competing club to know the level of competition you will be competing against.  If they have 10 teams in their U15 age group, which number team will you be playing?  Does the "pathway" make sense if your not competing against competition that elevates your player?    

US Soccer has the following leagues under their umbrella:
SCCL (Southeastern Conference) Boys & Girls
DPL (Development Premier League) Girls only
NPL (National Premier League) Boys & Girls
ECRL (Elite Clubs Regional League) Boys & Girls
ECNL (Elite Clubs National League) Boys & Girls

Major League Soccer/MLS Next/MLS Next PRO:
The Major League Soccer has formed their own youth pathway called MLS Next for boys U13-U19, which consists of over 130 teams from around the US. 
Academies of the MLS teams, plus a few select club teams are part of a league deemed MLS Next and leagues are formed Regionally.  90% of the US Men's National Team youth player pool are part of a MLS Next club. 
Major League Soccer (MLS) is the highest level of soccer currently in the United States. 
MLS PRO is the second tier of Major League Soccer and is what the new team in Huntsville, Huntsville City Football Club is for Nashville SC. 

There are several other youth development leagues, but these are the largest ones. 

Adult Soccer:
USL 1/USL 2 and USL W: 
United Soccer League is considered the second tier professional league in the United States.   
USL has USL 1 teams (top tier), USL 2 teams (second tier), and then some of the franchises in bigger cities have USL Academies for youth players, providing their own league.    They also have a Women's League called USL W.   

WPSL and NPSL:
NPSL is a national men's U19-21 soccer league.
WPSL is the longest active women's soccer league in the US and is sanctioned by the US Adult Soccer Association.