We are so excited to get back to playing youth sports!! Get out of your house and back on the field with South Parkland Football, tackle football registration is now open!
We will be following the CDC, Pennsylvania, and local health department guidelines to keep everyone involved in our program as safe as possible with the current Covid19 environment.
We have several options available based on your child age/weight/experience. Please refer to the description of each team above the registration links.
We have also offered an option of purchasing your own game jersey for our cost of $100. Player socks will be at our cost of $15 each, if you have game socks from in the past there is no need to order. If you would like to offer a donation to help support our football program it will be used for player and team equipment! The registration fees include a $20 SPYA overhead fee to cover ongoing cost such as insurance, building rents, maintenance of property and websites. This fee is non-refundable.
South Parkland Youth Association (SPYA) is a member in the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Football League (EPYFL) www.epyfl.org This is a tackle football league played with modified Pennsylvania high school rules and has several opportunities for our elementary aged boys and girls. EPYFL is an age and weight-based league with five levels offered. The levels range from flags starting in Kindergarten to Varsity that the player cannot weigh more than 145 pounds or turn 14 in 2021. On the registration form please include players current weight so our league can make any adjustments to our weight classes based on registrations. Our season runs from August until October.
Below are the registration links and league criteria for each level;
Varsity level has a 145 pound weight limit, players cannot be turning 14 in 2021, most players are in 5th or 6th grade and 11 or 12 years old.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269488
Junior Varsity level has two separate league age/weight requirements.
1. Player weighs 125 pounds or under and does not turn 11 before August 1.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269487
2. Player is older & lighter; weighs 90 pounds or less and does not turn 12 before July 31.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269508
Pee Wee level has a 105 pound weight limit, players cannot turn 10 before August 1.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269485
Junior Pee Wee level has an 85-pound weight limit, players cannot turn 9 before August 1.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269484
EPYFL flags is different from NFL flags; the EPYFL flag teams are played at an instructional level, on a full field with 11 on each team, there is no weight limit, no player can be turning 8 in 2021, this level is designed for the younger players to get ready for tackle football.
Flag team is designed for players that have played organized flag football.
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/269483
