Every adult member (18 years and older) of all organizations affiliated with Massachusetts Youth Soccer must complete their annual Mass Youth Soccer Adult Registration, be Massachusetts CORI and National Background Check approved/cleared, and State and National Sex Offender Registry Search cleared.

Most participating adults must complete and pass both SafeSport Abuse Prevention and Concussion Awareness Training.

Adult Registration Process

IMPORTANT:

• Use your full legal name and the same email address when setting up all soccer-related accounts. This will ensure auto-uploading/verification when available.

• Approximately a 2 hour time commitment for new participants; 1 hour for returning participants.

1. Complete Mass Youth Soccer Annual Registration

Click here to complete your annual registration. Be sure to select Newton Youth Soccer as your Primary Organization.

2. Complete Required Trainings – Can be completed while background check is in process.

• SafeSport Abuse Prevention = every year (taken after 1/1/25 = valid for Fall 2025-Spring 2026)

• Introduction to Safe & Healthy Playing Environments, a.k.a. Concussion Awareness training = every two years (taken after 6/1/24 = valid for Fall 2025-Spring 2026)

Click here for U.S. Soccer Learning Center

• NEW: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026- Concussion awareness training must be taken through the U.S. Soccer Learning Center (Intro to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments)

For additional help and guidance, please click here.

In 2018 a federal law was enacted to protect athletes from physical and sexual abuse.  The law requires that coaches and other adults who come in contact with amateur athletes to report abuse or suspicion of abuse.
Massachusetts Youth Soccer (MYSA) describes the reporting requirements HERE.

NYS Director of Coaching Ed Jenkinson is the point person for reporting abuse or suspected abuse:  doc@newtonsoccer.org

NOTE: The fields rescheduling process has been revamped to become partially form-based instead of solely-e-mail based. This will allow for more uniformity of requests and (hopefully) quicker response times. 

How to reschedule a HOME game:

• Immediately contact the Referee Coordinator and Field Scheduler to alert them of the cancellation of original game time. This allows referees to be notified. 

• As soon as it become clear that a home game must be rescheduled, you should contact the opposing coach and arrange a mutually agreeable make-up date. It is also advisable to agree on a backup date in case the first reschedule date is unavailable. Please follow all BAYS guidelines for rescheduling - including offering the opposing team at least 3 alternate dates and scheduling postponed games no more than 2 weeks after the original game date. Preponed games can been rescheduled virtually any time.

• Once you and the opposing team have agreed on dates, use the rescheduling form to request a field.

• If you have multiple rescheduling requests, you must fill out a separate form for each one and send separate e-mail notifications. Each rescheduled game is its own unique request. No rescheduling request will be considered without a properly filled-out form

•  To fill out this form, you will need two crucial numbers: Your unique alphanumeric team identifier (G805, B302, etc.) and your BAYS game number. BAYS game numbers are located in the far left column of the schedule on your BAYS team page.

• Once you have sent the form, you should send an e-mail alerting the Referee Coordinator that your request has been submitted.

• You will receive an e-mail from the Fields Rescheduler. This e-mail informs you of your rescheduled field assignment and notifies the Referee Coordinator that it is OK to assign a ref or refs to the rescheduled game.

• After receiving your rescheduled field assignment, you should follow up with the Referee Coordinator and the opposing coach to confirm that all elements of the game are in place.

NOTES AND TIPS:

• Whenever possible, you should schedule makeup games for your approved practice time and field. This cuts down on player and parent availability issues and these requests will almost always be granted.

• Popular practice nights like Thursdays and at the lighted fields at Albemarle and Forte are very difficult to schedule due to their popularity and our limited space. Avoid these if possible.

• BAYS games take priority over scheduled practices. If need be we will bump teams off their practice fields to open space for rescheduled games. The Fields Scheduler will notify the practice team and help them find alternate space.

• Public school use of fields trumps our games and practices.  If you find that you have conflicts with school-based teams or activities, please calmly and patiently work things out at that time and send the Fields Rescheduler a note so the conflict can be avoided in the future.

Most of the time, Intramural games that canceled due to inclement weather, do not get rescheduled. However, if several weeks of games are canceled, the league might decide to add an additional week of games. This will be communicated to all families by the Intramural Age Group Coordinators.