The Connecticut Junior Soccer Association (CJSA) publishes a list of clubs, with a link to each club's website. This site's club directory is built from that list and records the town each club is based in. Laid over Connecticut's 169 towns, it shows things the list on its own doesn't: which counties have the most clubs, which towns have several, and which have none of their own.
165 clubs in 125 towns
CJSA's list had 162 clubs when this site recorded it in August 2026. This site also has detailed pages for three youth clubs that aren't on it: Connecticut FC in Bloomfield, Ginga FC in Woodbridge, Hamden and Madison, and Sporting CT in Middletown. Together that is 165 youth clubs, based in 125 of the state's 169 towns. One more, QVSA United, is listed under the Quinnipiac Valley rather than a single town, so it isn't counted in any town or county below.
Most are town clubs. 119 of the 162 clubs on CJSA's list carry their home town's name, such as Ansonia Soccer Club or Berlin Youth Soccer Association. The others are regional clubs, academies and clubs that compete beyond the town level, such as Beachside Soccer Club in Norwalk.
County by county
| County | Clubs | Towns that are a club’s home |
|---|---|---|
| Hartford County | 40 | 27 of 29 |
| Fairfield County | 32 | 21 of 23 |
| New Haven County | 31 | 25 of 27 |
| New London County | 19 | 14 of 21 |
| Litchfield County | 13 | 12 of 26 |
| Middlesex County | 13 | 11 of 15 |
| Tolland County | 10 | 9 of 13 |
| Windham County | 6 | 6 of 15 |
Ginga FC is listed under three New Haven County towns and counted once. Each county name links to its clubs in the directory.
Hartford, Fairfield and New Haven counties hold 103 of the 165 clubs, and 73 of their 79 towns are the listed home of at least one. The two most rural counties look different: 12 of Litchfield County's 26 towns are a club's home, and 6 of Windham County's 15.
Towns with several clubs
Hartford, Norwalk and Stamford each have four clubs on the list. In Stamford, for example, Stamford Youth Soccer is listed alongside Chelsea Piers Shoreline SC, JA Elite and JCFC Soccer Academy. Bridgeport, Enfield, Glastonbury, Hamden, Madison, Middletown and Norwich have three each, counting Ginga FC in both Hamden and Madison.
The 44 towns without a club of their own
No club on the list is based in these towns, but that doesn't mean children there have nowhere to play. A club is listed under one town, and many serve several. Here is what some of them, or their towns, say:
- RHAM Youth Soccer (listed in Hebron): its bylaws describe it as serving "the youth of the Regional Hebron, Andover and Marlborough communities".
- Coginchaug Soccer Club (listed in Durham): its mission, as published by Coginchaug Regional High School, is to promote soccer "within the towns of Durham and Middlefield".
- Valley Regional Soccer Club (listed in Deep River): the Town of Essex describes it as serving "over 500 children in Chester, Deep River and Essex".
- Pomperaug Soccer Club (listed in Southbury): "PSC is proud to serve the families of Southbury and Middlebury."
- Woodbury Bethlehem Youth Soccer (listed in Woodbury): its website describes "its commitment to Woodbury and Bethlehem".
- Highlander Soccer Club (listed in New Hartford): it runs travel teams "for children from New Hartford, Barkhamsted, Norfolk and Colebrook".
- Northwest United Soccer Club (listed in Sharon): it says its players come mainly "from the towns of Salisbury, Sharon, Kent, Canaan, Falls Village and Cornwall", and lists a field in Sharon. Falls Village is part of Canaan.
- NECONN Soccer Club (listed in Putnam): it serves "the youth of Northeastern Connecticut" and has board representatives for Eastford, Killingly, Pomfret, Putnam, Thompson and Woodstock.
- HK Soccer Club (listed in Haddam): it usually plays its home games "at the Killingworth Recreation Park or at Great Hill Park in Haddam".
Those clubs name 19 of the 44 towns. The other 25 are Ashford, Beacon Falls, Bethel, Bozrah, Bridgewater, Chaplin, Columbia, Franklin, Goshen, Hampton, Hartland, Lisbon, Lyme, Morris, North Canaan, Preston, Redding, Roxbury, Scotland, Sprague, Sterling, Union, Voluntown, Warren and Willington. Families there may play for a neighboring town's club, or in a program the town runs itself; one town recreation department, Ellington Parks and Recreation, is on CJSA's list in its own right.
If your town isn’t on the list
- Look at the clubs in the towns next to yours on the town directory. A regional club's website may say which towns it takes players from.
- Ask your town's parks and recreation department whether it runs a youth program.
- The club finder matches clubs by town, county and age group, using only what clubs publish.
How this was counted
The club list is the Club Directory page on CJSA's website, as this site recorded it in August 2026. CJSA's page gives each club's name and a link to its website; the town is this site's own record, corrected where a club's website shows a different home (WAM United Soccer Club, for example, is listed in Mansfield, where its home field is). A club listed under a village is counted in its town, so Terryville counts as Plymouth and Winsted as Winchester. Counties are Connecticut's eight historical counties, the ones the town directory uses. The state abolished county government in 1960, and the U.S. Census Bureau now uses nine planning regions as county equivalents instead.
Clubs join, merge and move, so these numbers will change. The town directory always shows the current list.
Sources
- Club Directory, Connecticut Junior Soccer Association
- Bylaws, November 18, 2022, RHAM Youth Soccer
- Parent Groups, Coginchaug Regional High School
- How can I get more information on the local youth sports organizations?, Town of Essex
- About PSC, Pomperaug Soccer Club
- Home page, Woodbury Bethlehem Youth Soccer
- Welcome to Highlander Soccer Club, Highlander Soccer Club
- Home page, Northwest United Soccer Club
- Home page, NECONN Soccer Club
- Home page, HK Soccer Club
- U.S. Census approves Connecticut request for nine planning regions, Connecticut Public, June 16, 2022