It is a Saturday morning on Mahlon Brower Drive and you are at the fence at Oceanside Park with a coffee, watching a swarm of six-year-olds chase one ball across the turf. Your kid is in there somewhere. Next year she moves up a division, the fee moves up with her, and the club page lists five youth divisions, four prices and two fields. Somebody in the parking lot just said the word travel like it was obvious. Here is the whole Oceanside ladder, with the club’s own 2026 numbers, and an honest read on which rung your kid needs.
Written by Fernando, founder of Tiempo Soccer Academy (Rockville Centre, NY). Last reviewed: August 2026.
The short answer, by age and by goal
Through U8, the Oceanside United intramural program is the whole answer, and it runs $195 to $695 for the full year. From U9 to U12, travel at the same club runs $900 to $1,375 and buys two or three coached sessions a week. At U13 the club fee drops to $375, and that drop is not a discount. It is the year the club stops bundling training into the fee. Almost every decision an Oceanside family makes sits around those three numbers.
Money decides this for more families than anyone admits. In the Aspen Institute’s April 2026 read on soccer across New York City and New Jersey, about 150,000 kids in the region want to play and cannot get in, and 32% of families name fees as the main barrier (Aspen Institute Project Play, 2026). Oceanside plays inside LIJSL, which runs about 60,000 players across 97 member clubs and 3,500-plus teams (NY Red Bulls / LIJSL, 2026). Start with the Long Island youth soccer development guide for how the tiers connect, the rec, travel, academy and ECNL breakdown if you are choosing a tier rather than pricing one, and the LIJSL decoder for the league every Oceanside team plays in.
What Oceanside United charges for the little kids
Oceanside United has been running since 1962, and it does something most Nassau clubs do not: it publishes the entire price ladder on its own site instead of hiding it behind a registration portal. Use that. Here is the intramural side for 2026, fall and spring priced together.
| Division | Birth years | Fall and spring | What that buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munchkins | 8/1/2022 to 7/31/2023 | $195, program t-shirt included | 8 sessions a season, Saturdays at 9am at Oceanside Middle School |
| Pee Wee | 8/1/2021 to 7/31/2022 | $395, uniform included | A Monday 5pm session and a Saturday 10am game day, 32 dates a year |
| U6 and U7 | 8/1/2019 to 7/31/2021 | $480, uniform included | 9 midweek trainings and 8 Saturday games a season, 34 dates a year |
| U8 | 8/1/2018 to 7/31/2019 | $695, uniform included | 18 midweek trainings and 8 Saturday games a season, 52 dates a year |
Divide those out and the picture flips. Munchkins is 16 dates for $195, about $12 a date. U8 is 52 dates for $695, about $13. The price per time your kid stands on a field barely moves across four divisions. What moves is how many times. That is the real product at this age, and it is the right one to buy: reps, not instruction.
Expensive for Nassau? Depends what you hold it against. Rockville Centre’s InterLeague is $325 plus a $60 kit for eight games a season and one weekly practice. East Meadow charges $185 a season plus an $80 uniform. Oceanside’s U8 costs more than both and delivers 52 dates, with training overseen by Showtime Soccer, the club’s training partner. Compare dates and who runs them, not headline dollars. County context is in the Nassau cost breakdown.
Travel from U9 to U12, where the price tracks the training
Read this table across, not down. The fee is not a function of your kid’s age. It is a function of how many coached hours the club folded in.
| Division | Birth years | Fall and spring | Training per week |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-9 | 2017 to 2018 | $900, uniform kit included | 12 weeks a season, two 1-hour practices |
| U-10 | 2016 to 2017 | $1,145 plus kit | Two 1-hour practices and a 1 hour 15 scrimmage |
| U-11 | 2015 to 2016 | $1,375 plus kit | Two 1 hour 15 practices and a 1 hour 15 scrimmage |
| U-12 | 2014 to 2015 | $1,095 plus kit | Two 1 hour 15 practices, no scrimmage listed |
| U-13 and up | 2007 to 2013 | $375 plus kit | No club training block. The trainer or coach sets it |
U11 is the peak at $1,375, and it is the peak because it is the only division buying three sessions a week at an hour and fifteen apiece. U12 falls back to $1,095 when the scrimmage comes off the schedule. U9 is the cheapest travel year at $900 and the only one with the kit inside the price. None of that is hidden. It is printed, which lets you do something rare in youth soccer: price the product by the hour and see what your money is attached to.
What is not printed is the tournaments, the winter and the gas, which is why $2,000 to $5,000 a year stays the honest all-in bracket even when the club line reads $1,145. Before you price any of it, work through the travel readiness checklist. The schedule breaks more families than the invoice does.
The $375 that is not $375
From U13 up, OUSC lists travel at $375 for fall and spring, and this is the line that catches Oceanside families, at the exact age the sport gets expensive everywhere else. Every younger division on that page carries a training block: twelve weeks a season, two or three sessions a week, run by the club’s training partner. The U13-and-up listing has no training block. What it has instead is this sentence: “All training fees and any tournament fees will be collected by the Trainer/Coach or their designee from the ‘Team Family’ and are in addition to the registration fee that is paid to the Club for registration.”
Read it twice. At U13 the $375 is a league registration, not a season. Training, tournaments and the calendar move to your team’s coach and get billed to that team’s parents directly. It can land under $1,375 or well over it, and the club is not the one who knows. The parent on last year’s roster is. Ask that parent what the team collected, before you register, not in November when the invoice shows up.
The Oceanside options that cost almost nothing
School soccer. The 1968 Sailors were the first Nassau County team to win a Long Island championship, and the program still plays in Nassau Section VIII. There is no club fee. If your kid is in seventh grade or above, this is the cheapest competitive soccer in town and it belongs at the top of the budget, not fitted in around travel.
The town clinic. The Town of Hempstead runs a youth soccer clinic at Oceanside Park with Long Island Rough Riders staff, ages 6 to 14, three hours on a Saturday morning, $20. The fall date is October 10, 2026, with registration opening online September 8 at 10am. Twenty dollars is not a development plan. It is a cheap way to learn whether your seven-year-old likes being coached by someone who is not you.
Summer, and the turf itself. Showtime runs the OUSC summer camp at $215 a player, or $65 a day, for U7 through U17, and $100 for U5 and U6. And the turf at Oceanside Park is a town field: open hours and a ball cost nothing, which for a kid under nine is what most schedules miss.
One clarification, because the name misleads people: OUSC’s Scholarship Program is not registration assistance. It awards college scholarships to graduating seniors, more than $350,000 to over 200 kids in twenty years. Good program, wrong one if the fall fee is your problem. For that, email the registrar and ask about payment plans directly. Clubs answer that question more often than parents ask it.
6 questions to ask before you pay for anything in Oceanside
1. “What does this fee cover, and what gets billed to me later?”
At OUSC it is written down for U9 through U12 and handed to the coach at U13. Everywhere else in Nassau, get it in writing. Kit, tournaments, winter and referee fees are the four that arrive after you have paid.
2. “How many times a week will my kid be on a field?”
Not games. Dates. U8 intramural here is 52 a year. U12 travel is two practices a week for twenty-four weeks. Different products, and the pricier one is not automatically better for an eleven-year-old who still needs volume more than structure.
3. “Who runs the training, and is it the same person in April?”
OUSC names Showtime Soccer for U9 through U12, which is more than most clubs will tell you. Ask anyway whether your kid’s group keeps that trainer across both seasons. Continuity is most of what makes coaching work, and it is the first thing that quietly changes.
4. “At U13, what did the team collect last season?”
The club cannot answer this one. The team’s parents can, and they will, in the parking lot, in detail.
5. “Is my kid going to play, or going to be rostered?”
Ask what minutes look like for a mid-roster player in a league game. A kid who trains twice a week and plays eight minutes on Sunday is having a worse year than a kid in intramural who plays the whole game.
6. “What happens if this is wrong by October?”
Most Nassau clubs sell fall and spring as one purchase, Oceanside included. Ask the refund question in August, while saying no still costs nothing.
When private training is worth it here, and when it is not
Private sessions on Long Island run about $75 to $125 an hour, and the marketplaces list trainers starting around $50 (CoachUp, accessed August 2026). At thirty sessions a year that is $1,500 to $3,750, on top of a club fee already at $900 to $1,375. In most Oceanside households that is the second-largest number in the sports budget.
The test is one sentence: can you finish “we are hiring this person to fix ___ by ___”? Name the gap and the date and it is often the best money in the budget. If the honest answer is “he just needs more touches,” you are about to buy supervised repetition at $100 an hour, and your kid can get that at Oceanside Park with one friend for free.
For the youngest ones the answer is almost always no. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends holding off single-sport specialization until roughly age 12 (Brenner, Pediatrics 2016), and highly specialized kids carry about 2.25 times the odds of overuse injury (Post et al., 2017). Spending $100 to put a six-year-old on a cone grid alone is the wrong purchase, and I say that as the guy who sells the sessions. Long version in the private training piece, age-by-age version in the PaC Method guide.
Most training builds technique. Tiempo builds skill.
Where Tiempo fits
We are not a club. We do not run LIJSL travel teams, we do not compete for your kid’s Sundays, and we are a few minutes up the road in Rockville Centre. Tiempo is the structured individual development layer that sits next to whatever Oceanside program your kid is already in, built on the PaC Method and its four stages, with a six-week Athlete Development Blueprint that names one specific gap and then shows you whether it closed.
And we tell families no. If your kid is in Munchkins or Pee Wee, do not buy private sessions from us or from anybody. Buy the $195 and a ball for the driveway. If your kid just registered for U9 travel and is about to get twenty-four weeks of coached training, do not add anything in September. Let the season load settle and look again in November. If we are not the right answer, we will say so and point you at the program that is.
FAQ
How much is youth soccer in Oceanside this year?
At Oceanside United, intramural is $195 for Munchkins, $395 for Pee Wee, $480 for U6 and U7, and $695 for U8, each covering fall and spring with a shirt or uniform included. Travel is $900 at U9 with the kit, $1,145 at U10, $1,375 at U11, $1,095 at U12, and $375 at U13 and up, kit bought separately from U10. Tournaments, winter and driving sit on top of all of it. County-wide ranges are in the Nassau cost breakdown.
Why does the travel fee drop to $375 at U13?
Because the fee stops including training. Every OUSC division from U9 to U12 lists twelve weeks of training a season run by the club’s training partner. The U13-and-up listing says training and tournament fees are collected by the trainer or coach from the team’s families, in addition to the club registration. So $375 is the floor at U13, not the price of the year. Ask a returning family what their team actually collected last season, and budget from that number.
Is travel worth it at U9?
Sometimes. At $900 with the kit included, U9 travel here is twenty-four weeks of two coached hours a week, real volume for an eight-year-old. The question is not the money, it is the Saturdays. If your family cannot reliably deliver a kid to two weeknight practices plus a weekend game for two straight seasons, the $480 intramural year is the better purchase, and nobody holds it against your kid at a tryout two years later. Run the readiness checklist first.
We already pay for travel. Do we need private training on top?
Usually not in the season you start it. A U11 player at OUSC is already getting three sessions a week. A fourth paid hour gives you a tired eleven-year-old, not a better one. If there is a specific gap, do the work in the winter break or the summer, against a named target, and stop when it is hit.
Sources
- Oceanside United Soccer Club, intramural and travel program pages, 2026 fees, accessed August 2026. ousc.com
- Showtime Soccer Training, Oceanside United summer camp and Showtime FC pages, accessed August 2026. showtimesoccerli.com
- Town of Hempstead, Youth Soccer Clinics at Oceanside Park, accessed August 2026. hempsteadny.gov
- 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 (American Academy of Pediatrics). PubMed
- Post et al., American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017. PubMed
- CoachUp, private soccer trainer listings, accessed August 2026. coachup.com
Club fees, tryout dates and coach assignments change every season. The club’s own page and the club’s own registrar are the source of truth. This page is the shortcut to knowing what to ask them.
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