Return to Spring Challenge Main Page

12th Annual Palm Bay Spring Challenge  May 2/3, 2009

Entries, Schedules, Results and Important Information Page

  2009 RESULTS Click here

Multi Team Club Discount   click to see details

Click Here for 2008 Results  

Click here to see 2008 Action Photos

Click here for 2008 Highlight Video!

Photos of 2008 check-in - Melbourne Square Mall  

Click here for Maps to Sites, Satellite Views of Sites and Field Layouts  Maps  

Guest Players Available/Needed!

Teams can post requests for players and players who are without a team can look for a team to be a guest player on by using our GUEST PLAYERS

Information about Entries and Important messages to Teams below Click Here

Results will be posted online during the Tournament

Multi Team Discount This year we are offering a multi team discount in the form of a rebate for clubs who enter 6 or more teams.  Clubs with 6 to 11 teams that play will receive a rebate of $30 per team after the tournament.  Clubs with 12 or more teams will receive $60 per team. 

Teams will pay the regular entry fee when they enter (including the late fee for applications submitted or entry fees paid after the early entry deadline). A check for the rebate amount will be mailed to the Club Treasurer within 30 days of the end of the tournaments

Important Information

Important Links for teams

apply online  Check-in   application information         Maps     Forms & Information  for Registered Teams   

  Hotels      Rules  Guest Players Needed/Available     click for age division birth dates

 http://www1.challengesports.net/PalmBaySpring/2009/infospr09.htm

MAPS for the Spring Challenge SITES

click for General  MAP  of  BREVARD COUNTY  FL  with both HOTELS and FIELDS

Field Layouts

Palm Bay Regional Park  new!     Southwest Park   Hoover Jr. High School   

    Gemini/Flutie   Note that speed limits are strictly enforced in Melbourne Beach.  Keep within the limits

Crespino Park  (note that parking on East side at the north end of North Osceola Drive is closest to the field)

Satellite Beach Library (scroll Down)   Please do not park in the Library Parking Lot.  Access to the Soccer parking is only from

the north on Jamaica Blvd off DeSoto Parkway

Google Satellite Views of the Sites

Palm Bay Regional Park    Southwest Park   Hoover Jr. High School   

Gemini/Flutie    Note that speed limits are strictly enforced in Melbourne Beach.  Keep within the limits

Crespino Park  (note that parking on East side at the north end of North Osceola Drive is closest to the field)

Satellite Beach Library **New Please do not park in the Library Parking Lot.  Access to the Soccer parking is only from

the north on Jamaica Blvd off DeSoto Parkway

Directions between parks 

(You can select the reverse trip from the  menu on the left side of the map page)

Southwest Park to Crespino                          Southwest Park to Hoover            Southwest Park to Gemini

Note that Southwest Park is on Rachel Street (also known as West Florida Ave), about 1/4 mile west of Babcock St

Palm Bay Regional Park to Hoover                   Palm Bay Regional Park to Southwest Park

Palm Bay Regional Park to Gemini                     Palm Bay Regional Park to Crespino

                            Hoover to Crespino        Hoover to Gemini    Hoover to Satellite Beach Library

Crespino to Satellite Beach Library Fields

ENTRY FEE

$510 for U13 to U19 (11v11)

$450 for U11 & U12 (8v8)

$390 for U8, U9 & U10 (6v6)

Checks made payable to "Challenge  Sports" and mailed to 2440 Michigan St., Melbourne, FL 32904

Teams entering or paying the entry fee after  April 6, must include a $60 late fee with their entry fee.

Multi Team Discount

Multi Team Discount

 This year we are offering a multi team discount in the form of a rebate for clubs who enter 6 or more teams.  Clubs with 6 to 11 teams that play will receive a rebate of $25 per team after the tournament.  Clubs with 12 or more teams will receive $50 per team. 

Teams will pay the regular entry fee when they enter (including the late fee for applications submitted or entry fees paid after the early entry deadline). A check for the rebate amount will be mailed to the Club Treasurer within 30 days of the end of the tournaments

Entered Teams (Updated Tuesday April 21 at Noon)

Teams are asked to check their listing below to make sure they are listed correctly

TEAMS ARE SEPARATED INTO DIVISIONS

Comments or questions can be submitted by clicking here  Contact Us   

We can not accept entry or grouping inquiries by phone

The most experienced/skilled teams are placed in the National Division, the lesser experienced teams in the Continental Division and, where there are enough teams and a large enough gap in level of play, the least experienced teams are placed in the American Division.

NOTE TO U10 Boys Teams  and U11 Girls Teams - These two ages will play in combined divisions where the results of  Saturday pool play will separate the teams into brackets for Sunday.  After pool play the top team in each of the 4 groups will advance to Sunday morning National Division Semi Finals.  The second place team in each of the 4 groups will advance to the Semi Finals of the Continental Division.  The third place teams in each group will pay a consolation match for their 3rd game.

NOTE TO U12 Girls Teams - Changes in team in this Division and the late addition of a 16th team has made it appropriate for us to schedule the top 12 teams in the same self seeding format as the 10 Boys and U11 Girls as described above

Preliminary Sites have been added in the column at the left - These are the primary sites.  It is possible to have a game on a nearby site if it is necessary to optimize field utilization.  Site codes are explained above in the Maps section.

============================================================================================================

============================================================================================================

***IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR TEAMS***

Sunday afternoon Game changes  -  We have made the following adjustments to Sunday afternoon Matches.  Schedules posted above are current and correct

                U9 Boys        National  Championship at  1:30   moved from SA2 to GM07A at the same time

                U12 Boys      National Championship  at  1:30   moved from SA3 to GM03 at the same time

                U13 Boys      American Championship at 12:30  moved from SA4 to HV3  at the same time

                U16/17 Girls National Championship   at   3:00  moved from SA4 to GM05 at 3:30               

                U14 Girls      National Consolation at 1:30  on HV3  changed to 2:30 on the same field

Game Lengths - A reminder that for U11 and older Divisions all games except Championship Games will be played with 30 minute halves.  Championship matches will follow the standard age group times as stated in our rules.  U9 and U10 will play the standard 25 minute halves

Note for U8/9/10 Teams -   A reminder that the rules for 6v6 soccer vary from region to region across the state.  In this tournament we will be playing with the offsides rule and referees will award both Direct and Indirect Kicks  as a result of fouls according to the FIFA definition.

Congratulations Space Coast United

17 teams entered in the Spring Challenge

When we acknowledged the record number 16 teams entered by the First Coast Soccer Association, We had somehow overlooked the fact that the Space Coast United Soccer Club, from right here in Melbourne, had entered 17 teams in the Spring Challenge.

We want to acknowledge both clubs for their great showing in the Spring Challenge

Most teams ever entered by a club in a Challenge Tournament

17 by Space Coast United Soccer Club

Most teams entered by a club more than 100 miles away

16 by First Coast Soccer Association

Congratulations to both clubs and good luck in the competition

Entries

Entries will be listed below starting around April 8 

Schedules will be posted before 10PM on Sunday April 26

Teams are urged to read the information posted here

Forms & Information  for Registered Teams    

so that they will be prepared for a great weekend of soccer

Where Teams are Playing -   This is the preliminary list of  sites.

PB = Palm Bay Regional Park   SW = Southwest Recreation Complex   GM = Gemini.Flutie Park  

HV = Hoover Junior High School  CR = Crespino Park  SA = Satellite Beach Library Fields