Our league

Academy Super League

Western Canada's premier youth academy soccer league, operated by BCSAA.

Player Pathway Fields & Venues

U7 – U18

12 age groups

Sep – Mar

~30 week season

6 cities

Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley

Bio-banding

Grouped by maturity

The League

What the Academy Super League is

The ASL is the competitive platform operated by BCSAA. It exists so that licensed academies have somewhere serious to play — against opponents held to the same standards they are.

A licensed-academy competition

Every participating program holds a BCSAA licence. Teams are staffed by professional coaching personnel who are screened and certified before they set foot on a pitch.

Boys and girls, twelve age groups

Competitive divisions run from U7 through U18 for both boys and girls, so an academy can enter a full program rather than a single flagship team.

A real season, not friendlies

Fixtures are scheduled from September through March — approximately thirty weeks — primarily at weekends, giving players a continuous competitive rhythm.

Across six communities

Matches are hosted in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Moody and Surrey, with Empire Fields in Vancouver as the primary venue.

One safeguarding standard

The same SafeSport policy applies to every academy in the league, so the standard of care does not change depending on who you are playing.

A single disciplinary process

Competition rules, discipline and disputes are administered centrally by BCSAA under its Bylaws, with written notice and a fair hearing for every party.

Divisions

Twelve age groups, boys and girls

Divisions run from under-7 through under-18. Match format and squad size scale with age group.

U7

U8

U9

U10

U11

U12

U13

U14

U15

U16

U17

U18

Season Structure

September to March

Roughly thirty weeks of scheduled competition, played primarily at weekends.

1
Season opens
September
Registration closes, divisions are confirmed and the fixture list is published. Bio-banded groupings are set for the developmental age groups.
2
First block
October – December
Weekly weekend fixtures across all divisions. Standings and discipline records are maintained centrally.
3
Second block
January – February
Play continues through winter, moving to covered and artificial-turf facilities where weather requires it.
4
Season concludes
March
Final fixtures and end-of-season events, including tournament play for eligible age groups.

Why we group by maturity

Bio-banding

Two thirteen-year-olds can differ by thirty centimetres and twenty kilograms. Grouping them purely by birth year produces matches that are unsafe for one and unchallenging for the other.

Bio-banding groups players by physical maturity instead — height, weight and stage of growth — so that competition is matched to the body doing the competing.

Developmental stage

Lower injury risk

A real challenge

Space to develop