The Downtown L.A. Soccer Club (DTLA-SC) is a youth soccer club established in 2007 and affiliated with the California State Soccer Association (CalSouth). We service approximately 800 young boy and girl athletes ranging in age from 6 to 18 and currently compete in the Coast Soccer League (CSL), the largest and most competitive club soccer league in the US. Our teams are represented in all the CSL competition brackets including its elite “Premier Bracket.”
The primary objective of our club is to provide a soccer club experience for young athletes, most of whom live in Los Angeles’ underserved communities where, although the passion and skill set to play the game is high, the economic reality is that, a large portion of our families would be unable to afford the high costs of playing soccer at the club level.
The guiding principle of DTLA-SC is a simple one: