The SJCYFL is a volunteer-driven, community-based youth football league where “no one is paid and everyone plays!” It not only gives every boy a chance to be on a real team, proudly wear a jersey and look forward to weekly matches, it also becomes a breeding ground for the truly talented footballers to emerge.

Core Values

The league gives parents an opportunity to get involved in the lives of their children and interact with others in the community. All of the coaches, team helpers and league officials are parents and other volunteers from the community. Our core values include discipline, unity, teamwork, service, family and sportsmanship. The league is primarily based at the SMK USJ 4 field in partnership with the School authorities.

Family Support & Service

While no one would join the league without a love for football, our league is actually less about football and more about growing balanced kids and healthy families. We strongly encourage all parents to attend their children’s games, support them as they play and make life-long family memories. Many of our families closest friends have been made through the league. With one of our core values being service, each year the league designs a project to help communicate to social responsibility to our children. Since our inception we collected more than 1,000 food hampers for the underprivileged.

Boys Football

Beginning in 2000 with 14 teams and 145 players in grades one through six, the league has grown to to over 250 players represented in the four age based divisions (U8, U10, U12, U14) across fourteen teams in 2008. Weekly training sessions are on Saturday afternoons from 4-7pm with matches held on Sunday afternoons from 4-7pm. The ten match season runs from January through May and is always followed by a one day tournament which serves as the season finale. In the months that follow, our age-based "select teams" are formed to give the "cream of the crop" in each division the opportunity to compete against their peers in numerous friendlies and tournaments.

Girls Futsal

The League has also responded to the requests of many parents and introduced a girls’ futsal in 2003. Today our girls futsal league is a popular mainstay with approximately 100 girls (from ages of 6 to 16) participating.

Subang Jaya Community Sports Club

In 2004, the SJCYFL led to the formation of the Subang Jaya Community Sports Club. The club has helped to organise not only our boys football and girls futsal leagues, but also a swimming and also a veterans (SJ SOL) football team. Many other events have been organised by the club including non-sporting activities that reflect our core values. Some of these include parenting seminars, charity food drives and many more.

Diversity

One of the strengths of the club is the diversity it represents. In addition to the obvious ethnic diversity and deliberately balanced teams, our players and more than 200 families members reflect tremendous socio-economic differences. Volunteer coaches and team managers have been parents and kind souls representing all walks of life.

The uniqueness of the league rooted in its core values has attracted the support of Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and also the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM). Our own local municipal council (MPSJ) has been supportive of our efforts.

Many countries that have made significant progress on the international scene over the last decades have done so in part because of the blossoming of community-based leagues that attract millions of youth. We believe that youth leagues such as SJCYFL will not only continue to add value to community, but will assist Malaysia’s return to lasting football glory!

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