About
Woodland Soccer Club offers recreational youth soccer, including fall and spring recreational play and participation in the City Recreational Cup. The program includes recreational soccer teams that play in organized games.
• Schedule: Game schedules typically come out in late August or early September, with most games beginning the weekend after Labor Day; U6–U9 games are on Saturdays, and U10 and above play on Saturdays or Sundays.
Seattle’s first organized soccer matches were played at Woodland Park in 1906, and Woodland Soccer Club’s crest has been used as the club’s insignia since the late 1970s as the club approaches its 50th year. The club’s mission is to provide recreational soccer to more than 1,250 children within and around its boundaries in Seattle’s Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge neighborhoods, with players distributed among teams so there are no dominant or deficient teams and with parity and enjoyable, competitive games as the overriding priority. Woodland Soccer Club is the officially sanctioned organization charged with providing recreational youth soccer to children who live within its boundaries and is a member of the Seattle Youth Soccer Association and the Washington State Youth Soccer Association. It is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that relies on participating families to help prepare and stage soccer games for over 1,000 youth every fall, and it offers recreational youth soccer in Seattle for the Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge areas as an all-volunteer organization that offers low-cost and accessible recreational soccer opportunities.
Woodland Soccer Club has a leadership team that includes a president (Steve Simpson), vice president (Will Hays), treasurer (Becky Teipen), head registrar (Kevin Alkire), scheduler for Mod-age games (Diana Perrault), sporting behaviour lead (Will Hays), technical director (Ben Zulauf), Mod referee director (Christine Loftus), SYSA disciplinary representative (Mitch Furyglas), equipment co-director (Cheryl Tellier, with one open position), practice scheduler (Mary Schoen), fields/maintenance for Green Lake goals (Tony Soldato), SYSA commissioner (Michael Reneer), special projects lead (Doris Nguyen), and technology lead (Steve Kuhn), along with open positions for secretary, volunteer director, event coordinator, and community outreach. The club’s boundary is defined by N/NW 85th St, 8th Ave NW, I-5, the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and Lake Union, but there is no requirement that players live within this boundary, and there are no tryouts; if a player can register, that player can play. Players are assigned to teams by club registrars, coaches are not allowed to select their players, and parents are not allowed to influence placement, with the stated goal of parity among teams and enjoyable, competitive games.
At U10 and older age groups, each team is limited to three “select” players under Seattle Youth Soccer Association rules, and players who play on “Premier” league teams are not eligible for recreational play, while Seattle allows players on “select” teams to participate in its recreational league within those limits. All players must wear shinguards, and soccer cleats are recommended but not required. Woodland Soccer Club operates a Shoe Library at 5553 Wallingford Avenue N where families can obtain cleats and shinguards and are asked to leave any too-small gear for others. All players U8 and above need to order uniform shirts from the Woodland Soccer Club Uniform Shop, which typically ship within two weeks, and uniforms for U6 and U7 players are distributed at the field before the first game.
Woodland Soccer Club’s crest combines an evergreen tree and a soccer ball and has been used since the late 1970s. Woodland’s Fast Flying Tigers and Red Fire teams are City Champions in the U12 Gold and U11 Silver Divisions, and the Flaming Fireballs achieved a State Recreational Cup victory. A Woodland Soccer Club parent in fall 2009 described “spending sunny Saturdays at Wallingford Park with the community and with the children as they chase a ball across a field” as a source of joy.
Last updated February 5, 2026.
• Schedule: Game schedules typically come out in late August or early September, with most games beginning the weekend after Labor Day; U6–U9 games are on Saturdays, and U10 and above play on Saturdays or Sundays.
Seattle’s first organized soccer matches were played at Woodland Park in 1906, and Woodland Soccer Club’s crest has been used as the club’s insignia since the late 1970s as the club approaches its 50th year. The club’s mission is to provide recreational soccer to more than 1,250 children within and around its boundaries in Seattle’s Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge neighborhoods, with players distributed among teams so there are no dominant or deficient teams and with parity and enjoyable, competitive games as the overriding priority. Woodland Soccer Club is the officially sanctioned organization charged with providing recreational youth soccer to children who live within its boundaries and is a member of the Seattle Youth Soccer Association and the Washington State Youth Soccer Association. It is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that relies on participating families to help prepare and stage soccer games for over 1,000 youth every fall, and it offers recreational youth soccer in Seattle for the Green Lake, Wallingford, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge areas as an all-volunteer organization that offers low-cost and accessible recreational soccer opportunities.
Woodland Soccer Club has a leadership team that includes a president (Steve Simpson), vice president (Will Hays), treasurer (Becky Teipen), head registrar (Kevin Alkire), scheduler for Mod-age games (Diana Perrault), sporting behaviour lead (Will Hays), technical director (Ben Zulauf), Mod referee director (Christine Loftus), SYSA disciplinary representative (Mitch Furyglas), equipment co-director (Cheryl Tellier, with one open position), practice scheduler (Mary Schoen), fields/maintenance for Green Lake goals (Tony Soldato), SYSA commissioner (Michael Reneer), special projects lead (Doris Nguyen), and technology lead (Steve Kuhn), along with open positions for secretary, volunteer director, event coordinator, and community outreach. The club’s boundary is defined by N/NW 85th St, 8th Ave NW, I-5, the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and Lake Union, but there is no requirement that players live within this boundary, and there are no tryouts; if a player can register, that player can play. Players are assigned to teams by club registrars, coaches are not allowed to select their players, and parents are not allowed to influence placement, with the stated goal of parity among teams and enjoyable, competitive games.
At U10 and older age groups, each team is limited to three “select” players under Seattle Youth Soccer Association rules, and players who play on “Premier” league teams are not eligible for recreational play, while Seattle allows players on “select” teams to participate in its recreational league within those limits. All players must wear shinguards, and soccer cleats are recommended but not required. Woodland Soccer Club operates a Shoe Library at 5553 Wallingford Avenue N where families can obtain cleats and shinguards and are asked to leave any too-small gear for others. All players U8 and above need to order uniform shirts from the Woodland Soccer Club Uniform Shop, which typically ship within two weeks, and uniforms for U6 and U7 players are distributed at the field before the first game.
Woodland Soccer Club’s crest combines an evergreen tree and a soccer ball and has been used since the late 1970s. Woodland’s Fast Flying Tigers and Red Fire teams are City Champions in the U12 Gold and U11 Silver Divisions, and the Flaming Fireballs achieved a State Recreational Cup victory. A Woodland Soccer Club parent in fall 2009 described “spending sunny Saturdays at Wallingford Park with the community and with the children as they chase a ball across a field” as a source of joy.
Last updated February 5, 2026.
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