Opportunities for you to develop your game throughout Europe.
Enhance your game and college recruitment prospects
An overseas soccer gap year will give players the opportunity to focus on their soccer development and give careful consideration to the next step in their career.
Having spent year’s carefully combining soccer and education throughout high school the soccer gap year opportunity represents a great time to really focus on soccer development and where better to do it than a European country, where soccer is the main sport!
Gap year opportunities range from 3 months to 9 months (entire European season) in length.
KEY FACTS
Gender: Male and Female
Ages: 16+
Education: Optional college entrance exams or language courses available
Duration: Options from 2 Weeks to 9 Months available
Choose a location and duration to best suit you
Players pursuing an overseas soccer gap year will be able to choose a programme to best suit their individual needs.
We will seek to present players a variety of opportunities in various locations throughout Europe so they can select the one that they feel will be most advantageous to their player development.
Advantages to pursuing an overseas gap year include:
Read more about the benefits of pursuing your education in the U.K. by clicking the link below.
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Consider Your Options
Time to carefully consider your options away from the pressure of the senior year in your high school.
Extend Recruitment
Extend your college recruitment process and improve your college options – both overseas and in the U.S.
Focus on soccer
Spend time focusing on your soccer career and develop as a player to improve your college recruitment prospects.
Experience a new culture
Become immersed with British culture and experience living in a country where soccer in the main sport!
What options can a player expect after a gap year?
Having spent a gap year overseas to experience soccer in Europe, student-athletes could expect to consider a number of potential pathways once their gap year is complete. Possible exit pathways after completing a soccer gap year include:
After completing a soccer gap year overseas you may wish to extend your stay and pursue your entire college career overseas. With our wide network of U.K. university coaches this is something we can help you explore during your gap year.
Any player who pursues a soccer gap year that wishes to explore their U.K. university opportunities will have our full support in finding suitable opportunities. Our staff will assist with promotion to U.K. soccer coaches, arranging university visits, soccer trials and assistance with U.K. university applications.
After spending a year in Europe working on your game you may then wish to return to the States to play college soccer.
Any students who need assistance during the college soccer recruitment process can be connected with our U.S. college recruitment partner who can help get their profile out there to U.S. coaches.
