Announcement - Attention AYSO Referees: You are all welcome to attend the Referee In-Service Clinic this Friday, Sept. 5 from 7-9 pm at the Davis Library, 315 E. 14th St. We will discuss the upcoming fall season, have a training session on "Offside", raffle off some prizes, AND collect your Volunteer Application Forms (VAF) for those who have not yet turned one in this year. Pizza and drinks will be served beginning at 6:45 pm. Contact Mike Goodison if you have questions at:

Announcement - 2008 Fall Picture Day Schedules are here

Announcement - VIP players will meet at Nugget Fields at 1:00PM this coming Sunday (Sep 7). Mainstream players will come at 1:30 to scrimmage against the VIP team. Coaches, please see the VIP page for how you can contribute to this program!

Announcement - 2008 Fall Game Schedules are here (All schedules are completed; there were some revisions 9/1/2008, please re-check the schedules).

Announcement - Parent handbook is now online and the AYSO Kids Zone document. We are making these and other documents available online; please follow the top website navigation under Resouces - Miscellaneous Forms. Parents, if your player will be walking or biking home alone or with another person besides her/his parents, please see Parent permission form or ask the coach for form to complete.

Announcement - New Team "Green Coordinator" beginning this season.

• A meeting for the Green Coordinators is scheduled for Aug. 30 (6:30-7:30PM) at the AYSO building.
• Questions, Email:
• Information and details can be found on the new Sustainability webpage.

Announcement - Coaches meetings start this weekend and coaches will be allowed to contact players starting August 20th. Please be patient if you do not receive a call soon after as our final coaches meeting is the 23rd and some coaches still might be on vacation. The season starts on September 6th.

Announcement - Attention U6-U8 Parent Referees: A new 2008 Field Guide is now available for your reading. Revisions have been made to reflect changes from the 2007 season and clarification on a few other items, primarily, the additional substitution period in the 4th quarter for U6 teams when playing with a 5 player roster has been deleted. U6 teams will have 4 players on each mini-team in 2008 so the regular substitution periods will work in order to get each player 3/4 playing time. Everyone refereeing the U6-U8 leagues this coming fall should re-acquaint themselves with this valuable document.

Announcement - Coaches reminder, upcoming fall coach meetings are (see Coach page for details):

• Aug. 16, Saturday.
• Aug. 20, Wednesday.
• Aug. 23, Saturday.

Announcement - Sacramento Soccer Legend Offers Free Soccer Clinics starting July 24; see Soccer camps page for details.

Announcement - Attn: Regional Referees: you now have another reason to upgrade to an Intermediate Referee. As an incentive for Regional Referees to upgrade to Intermediate certification, Davis AYSO is now offering reimbursement for the purchase of a new style referee jersey to any Davis AYSO referee becoming an Intermediate Referee. This is a great way to build up your alternate color jerseys while upgrading your referee skills.

Click here to view: NEW Intermediate Referee Incentive Program.

Announcement - AYSO - VIP soccer registration for fall Davis AYSO is offering an adapted soccer program for players with disabilities called VIP - Very Important Player program. For registration details, see Registration page.

Announcement - Fall Season registration may be mailed in. Fees are $140. Player is guaranteed placement on a Fall team if registered by June 30th. Registrations after July 1st will be wait listed. For registration details, see Registration page.

Announcement - AYSO Environmental/Green Meeting
A "Greening of Davis" AYSO meeting was held at the Community Park AYSO building on Tuesday June 10th. Information on this topic and meeting will be forthcoming. If you missed the meeting, we welcome your ideas and/or comments, please email:

Announcement - New for Davis Referees: Recommended Order to Purchase the New Design Alternate Color Referee Jersey, see: Recommended Order of Purchase.

Announcement - 2007 Referee Honor Roll: Do you remember the person awarded the Referee Service Award in 2007? Do you know how many new referee certifications we had in 2007? Can you name the three Davis referees who achieved the ultimate referee certification and became National Referees in 2007? Can you guess who refereed the most games (including the number of games) in 2007: 1. In total?, 2. By individual season?, and 3. By specific age division? If not….and, heck, even if you can…you will still want to check our new Davis AYSO Referee Honor Roll for 2007. We have compiled all the statistics fit to print to honor our dedicated Davis AYSO referees and their many accomplishments over the course of 2007. We recognize over 100 different volunteers by name. Click here to see if your name is one of them.

Announcement - New Referee Resource:

"Restarts: What can go wrong?". Here's a quick and easy look at the various restarts and some of the most common problems associated with each one and the proper actions to take.

Announcement New Referee Uniform Transition Plan and Incentive Program:
The powers that be have ushered in a new referee uniform, but don't rush out to buy it just yet. Davis AYSO has developed a transition plan to help our local referees understand how the new uniform will impact us over the course of the coming year, while also using this change to launch a new incentive program that could get our local AYSO referees outfitted in a new jersey free of charge just for refereeing 5 or more games during the 2008 Select Season. Check out the details of the transition plan and the new jersey incentive program by clicking here.

Announcement Uniform Donations:
Our uniform donation program will be accepting drop-offs all day tomorrow (Saturday, December 8) at the AYSO building located just south of community pool. Jerseys, shorts, socks, shin guards, and shoes are welcome.

Please contact: for dropoff dates and places after Saturday.

Announcement: Davis AYSO has been able to comply with National AYSO guidelines in implementing games involving fewer players on the field. We fully implement national AYSO's recommended short-sided games for U6 (3v3), U10 (7v7), and U12 (9v9). We play 7v7 in U8, and hope to reach the recommended 5v5 in the future if we can solve the need for adequate game fields and coaches for 77 teams rather than the current 60 teams. See: Short-sided games are here!! (pdf)