Madison Blaze Soccer Club

What the club offers

Programming targets players from about ages seven through eighteen in a competitive, growth-minded, family-friendly setting. Teams span girls and boys birth-year groups from roughly 2007 through 2015 and younger squads the club fields, with named head coaches for each squad. The club is all-volunteer on the coaching side, and coach fees are covered as a thank-you for volunteer hours, which helps keep team assessments lower than many comparable clubs.

Training sites, seasons, and match load

Practices take place at Redstone Arsenal, while home matches are played in Madison. For 2018–2007 birth-year teams, each Fall or Spring season usually runs about fourteen to sixteen weeks: Fall often runs August through November and Spring often February through May, depending on each team’s game calendar.

Younger groups (about U8–U10) train twice a week for ninety minutes. Older groups (about U11 through high school ages) train two or three nights a week for ninety minutes. Game counts step up with age: younger teams aim for at least eight exhibition games plus in-town tournaments and one or two travel weekends (often toward Birmingham or Nashville), while older sides add state-league or exhibition schedules and additional tournaments, generally landing near twenty to twenty-two games in a season when travel weekends are included. Away-league travel for state-league brackets can range across North Alabama and farther in-state depending on the bracket.

Typical fees and uniforms

Families should plan for about one hundred seventy-five dollars in uniform costs paid through soccer.com on a roughly two-year cycle; one full kit cycle used for budgeting runs Fall 2024 through Spring 2026 for home and away uniforms. Team fees are collected per season (Fall and Spring are billed separately when a team plays both). Approximate team-fee bands, which include estimated tournament costs but not family travel, run about four hundred fifty to five hundred dollars for the youngest competitive bands, about five hundred twenty-five to five hundred seventy-five dollars for the next band up, and about six hundred to six hundred fifty dollars for older travel-age groups. Those team fees bundle items such as tournaments, coach support, facility rentals for training and games, referees, extra technical-staff sessions, player insurance, Alabama Soccer Association and administrative charges, AYSO National fees, coaching curriculum tools including The Coaching Manual, and equipment.

Mission, vision, and community tone

The mission is to give kids room to learn soccer, sharpen skills, practice teamwork, and enjoy the game on the way to lifelong participation. The vision stresses development at every skill level, love of the game, enjoyment of competition, pursuit of excellence, and willingness to take risks and learn from mistakes. The club also emphasizes tight-knit teams and parent communities alongside on-field goals.

VERO FC and higher-level pathways

Madison Blaze partners with NASC, Cullman United, and Shoals Soccer Club on VERO FC, a regional initiative for players who want advanced development and elite-level competition without leaving their Blaze teams. Selected players keep training and competing with Madison Blaze while adding one extra weekly VERO FC practice; tryouts apply to those elite sides. VERO FC’s elite teams were not scheduled to begin play until the 2026 season when the partnership was announced. The extra training mirrors how Olympic Development Program pathways layer higher-level work on top of home-club participation.

How to join or follow along

During each year’s open tryout period, families complete tryout registration and evaluation steps the club runs for that season; outside those windows interested families should email info@madisonblazesoccer.com so a team representative can respond. Social updates also run on the club’s Facebook and YouTube channels under the Madison Blaze Soccer name.