What does a Vermont family get from a soccer club that runs teams from under-10 through under-19? With Far Post Soccer Club, the answer is a year-round pathway: competitive teams across that whole age band, plus goalkeeper-specific training for the position most programs tend to neglect.
Far Post Soccer Club is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit out of the Essex Junction area, and its stated aim is to build a love of the game and better playing habits through a club-wide, progressive curriculum. The word progressive is doing real work there. The idea is that a player moving up an age group meets teaching built on the last stage, not a new coach reinventing the wheel every season.
The seasons are covered end to end. Spring, summer, fall and winter programs keep players on the ball, with summer camps and private lessons for anyone wanting extra time, and a futsal league to sharpen touch through the cold months.
What the club runs across the year
Beyond league play, Far Post Soccer Club fills its calendar with events it hosts and travel it arranges. It runs tournaments, the Alliance Cup among them, along with indoor competitions over winter, and it organizes international trips that take players abroad for a different kind of test. That is a wide slate for a club rooted in one small Vermont town, and it points to an organization trying to do more than fill Saturday fixtures.
The public face of Far Post Soccer Club is a site built around clear sections, Teams, Programs and Camps, Tournaments, Futsal, College Corner and Try-Outs, plus a blog running coaching advice and player-development pieces. A parent can find the relevant page without digging for it, and the blog is a small sign that the club wants to teach beyond the training ground.
College Corner and the recruiting claim
The most eye-catching part is College Corner, the club's college-prep and recruiting section. Far Post Soccer Club states it has produced more than 100 alumni who went on to play college soccer, including National Champions and All-Americans. That is a strong claim, and for a family weighing years of fees and weekend drives, it is the number worth pressing on: which colleges, which years, and how much of the pathway the club itself drives.
The recruiting support around it is the sort of thing that separates a serious club from a recreational one, and for a teenager with college ambitions it may be the single biggest reason to look at Far Post Soccer Club over a local rec league.
Try-outs and the competitive teams
Entry runs through try-outs, which sets the tone honestly. This is competitive youth soccer, not a sign-up-and-play rec league. Teams span U10 to U19, and the goalkeeper training deserves a second mention, since keepers are so often left to work it out alone.
For a player anywhere from ten to nineteen who wants to be pushed, Far Post Soccer Club is built for that ambition, and the try-out gate is part of why the standard holds. Families after a relaxed, everyone-plays experience should know that going in.
Futsal, camps and the off-season
The off-season offerings keep the club relevant when the fields freeze. A futsal league, indoor competitions and summer camps mean a committed player is rarely without somewhere to train, and private lessons fill the gaps for anyone chasing a specific weakness. I like that Far Post Soccer Club treats winter as a training window instead of a dead stretch. Partnerships with local businesses sit behind some of this, the ordinary machinery of a community non-profit keeping the lights on.
Outside verification is where the trail runs short. Charity Navigator rates Far Post Soccer Club Inc. at three out of four stars, a decent mark that speaks to the non-profit's finances and accountability more than to coaching on the pitch. RateMySoccerClub carries a listing praising player development, coaching and community engagement, though with no numeric score or review count attached.
GuideStar holds a nonprofit profile, but it sits behind a subscription and shows no rating. One stray 2012 review floating online complains about unreturned camp calls, yet it is tied to a venue, the Champlain Valley Expo Center, and cannot clearly be pinned to this club. No Google, Yelp or Facebook rating figures turned up.
Contact details, by contrast, are complete and easy to find: a phone number, an email, a physical location in Essex Junction and a mailing address are all listed, which is what a parent wants from a non-profit like Far Post Soccer Club handling other people's children and their fees. The financial star from Charity Navigator adds a bit of reassurance on the money side, even if it says nothing about the training itself.
For the money, that spread, teams, camps, keeper sessions, futsal and a recruiting track, is a lot of program under one roof, and Far Post Soccer Club clearly means to be a player's main club instead of a seasonal add-on. Whether the coaching lives up to the structure is the open question, since the public record says more about the paperwork than about what happens on the practice field.
So the verdict lands split. On what it offers, Far Post Soccer Club looks genuinely substantial: a real curriculum, a full-year program, keeper training, a futsal league and a college-recruiting track most small clubs cannot match. On outside proof it is light, since one charity-finance rating and an unscored listing tell a parent little about the day-to-day coaching. The deep programme is the real draw here, and the recruiting numbers are better treated as a conversation to raise at try-outs than as a promise taken on faith.
