It is a Tuesday night in Floral Park and you have two tabs open. One is the New Hyde Park Wildcats registration page, which lists every price in plain numbers: $120, $180, $235, $399. The other is the Floral Park Soccer Club, which lists no prices at all and tells you the intramural program is open only to families inside the Floral Park-Bellerose Elementary School District. You live eleven blocks from the Queens line and four blocks from a club that may not take your address. Here is every real soccer option for a kid in these two villages, the fees that are actually published, and when the honest answer is to stay exactly where you are.
Written by Fernando, founder of Tiempo Soccer Academy (Rockville Centre, NY). Last reviewed: August 2026.
The short answer for New Hyde Park and Floral Park families
These two villages sit next to each other, share a high school district, and run two clubs with almost nothing in common. New Hyde Park’s club takes the greater New Hyde Park area and posts every fee publicly. Floral Park’s club is restricted to one elementary school district and posts none. Your address, not your kid, decides which conversation you get to have. That is the fact nobody writes on a flyer, and it is the first thing to settle before you compare anything else.
The league underneath most of this is enormous. LIJSL runs roughly 60,000 players across 97 member clubs and more than 3,500 teams, including over 1,600 travel teams (NY Red Bulls / LIJSL, 2026). And the thing that decides most family choices is not talent. In the Aspen Institute’s April 2026 look at youth soccer across New York City and New Jersey, about 150,000 kids want to play and cannot get in, and 32% of families name fees as the main barrier (Aspen Institute Project Play, 2026). If the tier words are still fuzzy, read the Long Island youth soccer development guide and the rec, travel, academy and ECNL breakdown first. This page assumes you know the words and needs the local map.
The line that decides your options is not the village line
Floral Park Soccer Club states its residency rule on its own program pages, twice. The Junior Clinic for nursery through kindergarten is for children “residing within the Floral Park-Bellerose Elementary School District.” The intramural program, first through fifth grade for boys and up to sixth for girls, carries the same restriction. The Village of Floral Park’s youth organizations directory repeats it: participation is open to youth of the Floral Park-Bellerose School District.
Floral Park the village and Floral Park-Bellerose the district are not the same shape. Some Floral Park mailing addresses sit in other elementary districts. If yours does, the club four blocks away is closed to you and nobody will tell you until the form rejects the address.
New Hyde Park runs the other way. The Wildcats describe themselves as serving the greater New Hyde Park area, and New Hyde Park addresses are split across the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park district and the Elmont Union Free School District for K-6. There is no single line to fall on the wrong side of.
From seventh grade both villages converge. Everyone here feeds the Sewanhaka Central High School District, five high schools fed by four elementary districts: Sewanhaka, Floral Park Memorial, New Hyde Park Memorial, Elmont Memorial and H. Frank Carey. Your kid’s future high school teammates are being developed right now in four separate club systems, one of which will not let you register. That is worth knowing at age eight, not age thirteen.
Every door in New Hyde Park, with the price on it
The Wildcats are a volunteer club running kids from age 3 through high school, and they do something most Nassau clubs do not: they put the number next to the program. Here is the published Fall 2026 set from their registration page.
| Program | Ages | Published fee | What a week looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro Soccer | 3 to 5 | $120 | Eight Saturdays, one hour, coed |
| Intramural, Silver | 5 to 10 | $180 | Saturday games only, Denton Elementary |
| Intramural, Gold | 5 to 10 | $285 | Games plus one 75-minute practice a week for eight weeks |
| Intramural, Platinum | 5 to 10 | $375 | Games plus two 75-minute practices a week |
| Pre-Travel | 6 to 8 | $235 | Add-on. You must also be registered for intramural |
| Inter-Town | U11 to U15 | $235 | Eight Sunday games against nearby towns, one weekday practice, 9v9 or 11v11 |
| Travel | U9 to U18 | $399 for the full year | LIJSL, NYCSL or EDP. U9 to U12 includes North Hempstead Cup entry; U13 to U18 includes up to $300 toward one tournament. Selected by tryout |
| TOPSoccer | All ages | Not listed | Adaptive program for kids with disabilities |
Fall intramural runs September 12 to November 14 with a November 21 rain date, at Denton Elementary, 1050 Denton Ave. Uniforms are bought separately at Sport Loft on Jericho Turnpike, so add that to whatever line you picked.
Now the honest part about that table. The gap between Silver at $180 and Platinum at $375 is $195 for two practices a week instead of none. For a five-year-old, buy the $180 one. For a nine-year-old who asks to go to the park to juggle, Gold is one of the better values in western Nassau, because a weekly 75-minute session with the same coach for eight weeks is the actual mechanism by which kids improve. Not the number of games.
The other thing worth naming: Inter-Town is explicitly built for U11 to U15 players who are not on a travel team. Eight real Sunday games against other towns, a weekly practice, $235, no tryout. If your kid did not make travel, or you do not want travel, this is not a consolation prize. It is a well-designed third door, and a lot of parents never find it because they stop reading after the word travel. If you are still weighing that jump, the travel readiness checklist is the piece to read before June.
Every door in Floral Park, and the price that is not posted
Floral Park Soccer Club has been running since 1973 and is a division of the Floral Park Indians Athletic Club. The programs are real and the structure is clear. The pricing is not.
The Junior Clinic covers nursery through kindergarten with NYCFC-certified trainers. Fall 2026 is eight weeks, early September to mid-November; Spring 2027 is seven weeks, mid-March to mid-May. Boys play Saturday, girls play Sunday, by grade: kindergarten 9 to 10, pre-K 10 to 11, nursery 11 to 12. The intramural program takes first through fifth grade boys and up to sixth grade girls, with older divisions confirmed this year for boys grades 3-5 and girls grades 3-6.
Travel is where the shape gets interesting. The club’s travel page lists tryouts for U9 through U13 only, boys and girls, at Floral Park Bellerose School, with U9 registration closing May 1 and U10 to U13 closing May 15. Its field directions then list two venues for U13 and up: Floral Park Memorial High School on Locust Street, and the Alva T. Stanforth Sports Complex at 700 Hempstead Turnpike, which is in Elmont. So older teams exist, but the published entry cycle stops at U13, and by U13 your Saturday morning is already a drive to the next town. Ask the travel coordinators directly what the path looks like past that age before you assume it is there.
What you will not find anywhere on the site is a dollar figure. Not on the clinic page, not on the intramural page, not on the travel page. The only number published is the discount: register by August 6 and take $20 off, with a final clinic deadline of August 13 and a final intramural deadline of August 20. To learn what anything costs you have to click into GotSport and start a registration.
I am not going to pretend that is malicious. It is a volunteer board using the tool their registration platform gave them. But it has a real effect on real families, and it is the same effect the Aspen numbers describe: the household that most needs to know the price before committing is the one least likely to click through three screens of a registration system in a second language to find it. If cost is the deciding factor for you, our Nassau County youth soccer cost breakdown gives you the ranges to sanity-check against, and the one-line email to send is at the end of this piece.
One more practical note. The village directory still points to fpindians.com for soccer, and that domain now lands on the Floral Park Indians basketball site. The live soccer club is at floralparksoccerclub.org. If you hit the basketball page and assumed the club folded, it did not.
Queens is not a detour here. It is the next block.
This is what makes these two villages different from every other town in this series. Floral Park’s northern and western boundaries are the New York City line. Glen Oaks in Queens gets its mail through the New Hyde Park 11040 post office. For a family here, a Queens program is often a shorter drive than a Nassau one.
Auburndale Soccer Club at Fort Totten runs ages 2 to 19: First Kicks for 2 to 5, a no-tryout Intramural Development program for 5 to 13, Premier Travel from U8 to U16, and TOPSoccer. Their own site names Long Island families in the group they serve. Blau Weiss Gottschee in Middle Village has been going since 1951 and is the highest-ceiling door in reach: Academy at U13 to U19, Pre-Academy at U6 to U12, a girls program U8 to U19, an intramural for 4 to 9, and affiliation with MLS NEXT and the NY Red Bulls Academy program. Neither club publishes fees either, so the same email applies.
And the brand comes to you. NYCFC runs camps at Floral Park itself, linked directly from the club’s own site: a spring break week in April and two summer weeks in July and August. If your kid wants the badge experience, you can buy a week of it without a single highway.
Here is the part I will say plainly, as someone who sells development for a living. Do not take a nine-year-old to an MLS NEXT-affiliated club because the badge impressed you. Academy structures at that age are excellent for the small number of kids who are already training on their own without being asked, and they are a grind for everyone else. The AAP’s guidance still says delay single-sport specialization until roughly age 12 for most kids (Brenner, Pediatrics, 2016), and highly specialized young athletes carry about 2.25 times the odds of overuse injury of their low-specialization peers (Post et al., AJSM, 2017). Nassau, Queens, or anywhere. The number does not care which side of the line you signed up on.
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7 questions to ask before you pay anyone in these two villages
Every one of these is answerable in a two-line email to a volunteer coordinator. Send them all at once. How a club answers is data.
1. “Does my address qualify, and can you check it before I pay?”
Ask this first, always, and ask it of Floral Park in particular. District-based eligibility is the single most common reason a registration fails in these two villages, and the coordinators can resolve it in one reply. Do not find out on the payment screen.
2. “What is the total, including uniform, and what else will I be asked for?”
The Wildcats’ $180 is the game fee. Sport Loft is the uniform. Travel at $399 covers a year and includes one tournament benefit, North Hempstead Cup entry at U9 to U12 or up to $300 toward a tournament of the team’s choice at U13 to U18. Travel families still buy gear, winter training and tournament weekends on top of that. Get the whole number before you compare clubs.
3. “How many minutes a week is my kid actually coached?”
This is the only question that predicts improvement, and almost nobody asks it. Silver is games. Gold is games plus 75 minutes. Platinum is games plus 150. When you price two clubs against each other, price the coached minutes, not the seasons.
4. “Who is coaching, and are they a parent volunteer or a trainer?”
Both answers are fine. A trained parent volunteer who shows up for eight weeks beats a paid trainer who sends a substitute twice. You are asking so you know what you bought, not to catch anyone out.
5. “What happens to my kid at U13 and U14?”
Floral Park publishes travel tryouts through U13. New Hyde Park’s travel runs to U18 and Inter-Town runs to U15. If you are in Floral Park with a fifth grader, ask now what the path looks like in three years, because the answer shapes whether you should be building a relationship with a second club already.
6. “What is the refund policy if we sign up and it does not work out?”
Neither club publishes one. That is ordinary for volunteer boards, and it is exactly why you ask in writing before you pay instead of after. Get the answer in an email you can still find in October. A club that answers this one clearly and fast is telling you something good about the rest of its administration.
7. “Is there financial help, and who do I ask quietly?”
Fees are the number one barrier in the Aspen data, and volunteer boards in Nassau move on this more often than families expect. Nobody publishes it well. Ask the registrar directly. The worst outcome is a no, and you were already at no.
The drive question, answered honestly
We are in Rockville Centre. From New Hyde Park that is about seven miles on a map and twenty-five minutes at five thirty on a Tuesday, through the Hempstead Turnpike and Peninsula corridor. It is the longest regular drive of any town in this series, and I am not going to soften it.
So here is my actual advice for most families reading this. Do not add a weekly drive to Rockville Centre. Register with your local club, buy the tier that includes real coached minutes, and if you want more, add one deliberate thing close to home: a Queens intramural block in the off-season, a futsal winter, a standing hour a week with a ball in Memorial Park. Three miles of consistency beats seven miles of good intentions that stop in November.
The exception is narrow and specific. It is the kid who has a named gap, not a vague one. “He gets shoved off the ball with his back to goal and he panics” is a named gap. “He needs to get better” is not. When the gap is named, targeted one-to-one work is worth a drive, and the honest breakdown of when private training pays off lays out the test we use, including the cases where the answer is no. Private trainers on CoachUp start around $50 a session and Long Island academies run $75 to $125, which at thirty sessions a year is $1,500 to $3,750 on top of club fees. That is not a rounding error in a family budget. It should buy something specific.
Where Tiempo fits
We are not a club. We do not run LIJSL travel teams, we do not compete in tournaments, and we are not a replacement for the Wildcats or Floral Park Soccer Club. We are the structured individual development layer that sits next to whatever your kid already plays, built on the PaC Method and a six-week Athlete Development Blueprint that starts by naming the gap in writing.
For these two villages specifically, we fit in three situations and no others: the U9 to U14 kid between doors who did not make travel and is not being served by intramurals, the player with one named technical gap that eight weeks of Saturday games will not fix, and the stretch from mid-November to March when both village clubs have nothing scheduled and a kid who wants to train has nowhere to go.
If you are outside those three, we are the wrong purchase and we will tell you on the call. Confianza, Responsabilidad, Habilidad, Pasión. Those are not translated values here, they are the ones we work in, and the first one means we do not sell you something you do not need. For Spanish-speaking families in Floral Park and New Hyde Park, the whole conversation happens in Spanish if you want it to, and the guide for Spanish-first families on Long Island covers the system friction in more depth.
FAQ
Can my kid play for Floral Park Soccer Club if we live in Floral Park but outside the Floral Park-Bellerose district?
The club’s own clinic and intramural pages restrict those programs to children residing within the Floral Park-Bellerose Elementary School District, and the village directory says the same. Village boundaries and district boundaries are not identical, so email the intramural coordinator with your street address before you fill anything out. If the answer is no, the New Hyde Park Wildcats serve the greater New Hyde Park area and are the nearest open door.
How much does youth soccer cost in New Hyde Park?
The Wildcats publish Fall 2026 fees openly: Micro Soccer $120 for ages 3 to 5, intramural at $180, $285 or $375 depending on how many weekly practices are included, Pre-Travel $235 as an add-on, Inter-Town $235, and travel at $399 for the full year, which carries North Hempstead Cup entry at U9 to U12 or up to $300 toward one tournament at U13 to U18. Uniforms are separate, through Sport Loft on Jericho Turnpike. Neither club publishes a refund policy, so ask for it in writing before you pay.
Why does Floral Park Soccer Club not list prices?
The pricing sits inside the GotSport registration flow rather than on the public pages. The only public number is a $20 early-bird discount for registering by August 6, with a final clinic deadline of August 13 and intramural deadline of August 20. Email the program coordinator and ask for the flat fee, what it includes, and whether a uniform is extra. It is a fair question and volunteer boards answer it.
Is a Queens club a realistic option from these towns?
Yes, more than anywhere else in Nassau. Floral Park’s north and west boundaries are the city line. Auburndale Soccer Club at Fort Totten runs ages 2 to 19 including a no-tryout intramural for 5 to 13 and names Long Island families among who it serves, and Blau Weiss Gottschee in Middle Village runs an MLS NEXT-affiliated academy from U13. Neither publishes fees. Treat them as two more emails, not as a step up.
My kid did not make travel. What is the next real option?
In New Hyde Park it is Inter-Town, U11 to U15, $235, eight Sunday games against nearby towns plus a weekly 75-minute practice, and it is designed specifically for players not on a travel team. That is a genuine competitive season, not a holding pattern. Then spend the winter on one named skill rather than on another tryout, and read the tryout preparation guide in March, not in May.
Which high school will my kid play for?
Both villages feed the Sewanhaka Central High School District from seventh grade, which runs five high schools: Sewanhaka, Floral Park Memorial, New Hyde Park Memorial, Elmont Memorial and H. Frank Carey. Which one depends on your elementary district, so check with your district office. It also means your kid’s eventual teammates are spread across four separate club systems right now, which is a good reason to be friendly with the neighboring town’s program.
Sources
- New Hyde Park Wildcats Soccer Club: Fall 2026 registration and fees, intramural, Inter-Town and travel, accessed August 2026.
- Floral Park Soccer Club: Junior Clinic, intramural, travel tryouts and field directions, accessed August 2026.
- Incorporated Village of Floral Park, youth organizations directory, accessed August 2026. floralparkny.gov
- Village of New Hyde Park, Children’s Summer Recreation, accessed August 2026. villagenhpny.gov
- Auburndale Soccer Club, Queens, programs page, accessed August 2026. auburndalesoccerclub.org
- Blau Weiss Gottschee, Middle Village, Queens, accessed August 2026. bwgottschee.org
- Sewanhaka Central High School District, member high schools and feeder districts. wikipedia.org
- NY Red Bulls / LIJSL league partner page, 2026. newyorkredbulls.com
- Aspen Institute Project Play, State of Soccer in NYC and NJ, April 2026. aspeninstitute.org
- Brenner JS, Pediatrics 2016;138(3):e20162148. PubMed
- Post et al., American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017. PubMed
- CoachUp, private soccer trainer listings, August 2026. coachup.com
Fees, divisions and deadlines change every season, and both of these clubs are run by volunteers. The registrar is the source of truth. This page is the shortcut to knowing what to ask. If you want the wider Nassau view before you commit, the club selection guide and the Franklin Square and Elmont guide cover the towns on your southern border.
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