REC 6U, 7/8U, 9/10U

SUMMER 2024 SEASON

Check your player's age group

Registration

Registration Opens Early Spring

Registration Deadline - Friday, April 26, 2024

Late fee starts April 27, 2024

Questions?

Send an email with child’s name, gender, and birth year to staff@mankatounited.org

Late registration includes a late fee. Late registration depends on roster space. 

Summer Season Overview

Program Objectives

• Have fun
• Learn basic soccer fundamentals such as dribbling, passing, shooting, and using feet instead of hands.
• Good sportsmanship and develop self-confidence.
• No tryouts and no players are cut.
• All registered and paid players will be on a team.

Fee

• 5/6U Boys/Girls - $65 registration fee
• 7/8U Boys/Girls - $90 registration fee
• 9/10U Boys/Girls - $145 registration fee
  * A late fee is added for late registration

Financial Aid information available at https://www.mankatounited.org/fa

Practices

• 5/6U: Friday and Sunday consisting of a 15-minute practice session followed by a game. Practices and games are held at Good Shepherd Fields in North Mankato (next to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church). 
• 7/8U: Practice on Tuesday evenings at Good Shepherd Fields in North Mankato (next to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church). 
• Girls 7/8U practice at 5:15 pm
• Boys 7/8U practice at 6:30 pm
• 9/10U One practice each week during a weekday evening at the SCC Fields. Day and time set by Hisham Sorour, the club's director of coaching.

Summer 2024 Practice Dates

• Practice for U5/6 starts with the first game on Friday May 31 and continues each Friday and Sunday before games.
• Practice for U7/8 starts Tuesday, May 28 and continues each Tuesday.
• Practice for U9/10 starts during the week of May 27-30. Specific day/time depends on number of teams since teams share the practice fields with the competitive U9 and U10 teams.

Summer 2024 Games

• Friday, May 31
• Sunday, June 2
• Saturday, June 8 - SoccerFest!
• Friday, June 14
• Friday, June 16
• Friday, June 21
• Sunday, June 23
• Friday, June 28
• Sunday, June 30

Game Times

• Boys 5/6U = 5:15 pm
• Girls 5/6U = 6:30 pm
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• Girls 7/8U = 5:15 pm
• Boys 7/8U = 6:30 pm
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• Boys 9/10U = 5:15 pm
• Girls 9/10U = 6:30 pm

Game Format

• 5/6U: 3v3 with no goalie. Games are two 15-minute halves with a 5-minute half-time.
• 7/8U: 4v4 with no goalie. Games are two 20-minute halves with a 5-minute half-time.
• 9/10U: 7v7 with goalie; 6 field players and 1 goalie. Games are two 25-minute halves with a 5-minute half-time. All game rules for 9/10U teams apply. 

Uniforms and Gear

• Rec uniforms consist of a green shirt and a white shirt, green shorts, and green soccer socks.
• Shin guards, gym shoes or soccer cleats, a size-3 soccer ball for 5/6U and 7/8U, a size-4 soccer ball for 9/10U, and a water bottle. 
• Purchase rec uniform package at https://www.newgensports.store/mankato-recreational
• Home is the green jersey; Away is the white jersey.

Team Formation Guidelines

1. Players are placed on teams by school they attend.
2. Mankato United will try to place a player with at least one other player from the same school.
3. Schools with large number of players may have players placed on different teams.
4. All practice and games are at Good Shepherd Fields in North Mankato (parents can still coordinate car pools with players on different teams since everyone is at the same site).
5. Requests for team/coach placement based on a medical condition will be taken into consideration. Please send medical-condition requests to staff@mankatounited.org