CSA Futsal Programming

CSA Futsal is back for 2025-2026!!

CSA offers high quality futsal training for our members. Programs are available year-round. The CSA Futsal program has been implemented and created as an “add on” program for your child’s development as a soccer player. The programs are set up to NOT interfere with your current club team schedule!

New to Futsal? Overview & Benefits of Futsal

Futsal is a 5-a-side version of futbol played on a hard flat surface (court) just a bit bigger than a basketball court, with a smaller, low-bounce ball. Futsal was created in Uruguay in the 1930s as a way to play futbol indoors. It spread quickly throughout South America and is widely acknowledged as a key factor in the development of talent there as well as in Spain and Portugal. Players like Iniesta, Messi, Ronaldinho, and Neymar Jr. all played futsal when they were young and recognize its role in their success in futbol.

Futsal is a great sport on its own merit and its popularity is growing in the US and across the world. In the US we now have both a men’s (est. in the early 1980s) and women’s national team (est. 2024) for futsal and we are looking forward to the first ever Futsal Women’s World Cup in 2025!!

Futsal is widely recognized in the US for its value in technical and tactical development for young soccer players. The parameters of the game (small-sided, low bounce ball, no walls, limitations on GK, 4 second restarts, etc.) help develop certain skills better than other versions of futbol. Here are a few aspects of the soccer game that Futsal is particularly good at developing:

• technical ability in tight spaces
• 1v1 ability (attacking and defending)
• movement off the ball to create space and unbalance defenders
• quick decision making
• precision passing
• creative and opportunistic finishing
• combination play in tight space
• defending in 2s and 3s
• GKs reaction speed and ability/comfort with their feet.

 

CSA Futsal Technical Training (Fall – Spring)

Futsal Technical Training: appropriate for all experience levels u6-u19. Focus is on individual technical development and ball mastery. For any players who want to want to focus on improving their technical ability through futsal.

• Training blocks of 5 sessions per block offered. 5x1h training sessions. $125 per block or $400 for all 4 blocks. Make-up sessions will be allowed.
  • Block 1:  Sundays from September 21-October 19
  • Block 2: Sundays from October 26 – November 23
  • Block 3:  February 8 – March 8
  • Block 4: March 15 – April 9 (no session on April 5)
• Players will be separated into smaller groups by ability for some parts of the sessions.

Questions:

Program Director: Mary Rea

Summer Futsal 2026 – Registration Opening Soon!

Options for beginners through advanced players!

Advanced Futsal Training Camps

These 2-day camps include 12 hours of technical/tactical Futsal training and full-sided games, geared towards experienced futsal players and teams preparing for National ID Trials, National Championships, international play, or are looking for high-level training to advance their futsal knowledge and skill.  Players will be separated by age/level. Attendance is limited to 30 players.
Camps are open to players U10 and older!

Advanced Training Camp 1 – May 23rd and 24th
Intermediate-Advanced futsal players only.
Saturday, May 23rd: 8am-11am, 1pm-3pm, 5pm-7pm
Sunday, May 24th: 8am-11am, 1pm-3pm
$160

Advanced Training Camp 2 – June 13th & 14th
Intermediate-Advanced futsal players only.
Saturday, June 13th: 8am-11am, 1pm-3pm, 5pm-7pm
Sunday, June 14th: 8am-11am, 1pm-3pm
$160

Futsal Clinics

These clinics feature technical training, small-sided games, scrimmages, and are geared towards individual player development and ball-mastery.  Great for players looking to enhance their soccer game through futsal.  Players will be separated by age/level. Clinics are appropriate for beginner to intermediate soccer and futsal players in age groups U6 through U14!
$45 per clinic, $160 for any 4 clinics, $280 for all 8 clinics.  Limited to 60 players.

• Clinic 1: Saturday May 23, 11am-1pm
• Clinic 2: Saturday May 23, 3pm-5pm
• Clinic 3: Sunday May 24, 11am-1pm
• Clinic 4: Sunday May 24, 3pm-5pm (Aerial Control/Freestyle Clinic)
• Clinic 5: Saturday June 13, 11am-1pm
• Clinic 6: Saturday June 13, 3pm-5pm
• Clinic 7: Sunday June 14, 11am-1pm
• Clinic 8: Sunday June 14, 3pm-5pm (Aerial Control/Freestyle Clinic)
  

Preseason Camp – Details coming soon!

Planned for July – please check back!

Returning in September 2026 – Competitive Futsal Teams!

For players u8-u19 who want to experience the highest level of futsal training and competition. Focus is on individual and team development with the goal of competing nationally.

• Team training September through January scheduled around the soccer calendar. Players will gain mastery of both futsal-specific techniques and tactics
• Competitions will include minimum of the USYF Futsal League in Rock Hill (Nov-Jan games) and one high level futsal tournament
• Tryout required and number of teams limited.