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State of Texas Youth Soccer 2026

PitchRank's first-party Texas youth soccer report: 7,992 ranked teams across 18 groups, drawn from 117,747 matches over the past year — biggest movers, league parity, and age-group depth.

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This is PitchRank's first-party snapshot of competitive youth soccer in Texas. Over the past year we processed 117,747 Texas matches to rate 7,992 ranked teams across 18 age-and-gender groups — every team with enough games to earn a PowerScore.

No surveys, no reputation, no pay-to-rank. Every number below comes from real game results and updates every week. Here's what the 2026 season looks like in the data.

Texas Youth Soccer by the Numbers

7,992

ranked teams

117,747

matches analyzed

18

age & gender groups

Boys and Girls

5,242

Boys teams (66%)

2,750

Girls teams (34%)

Where the Depth Is: Texas Teams by Age Group

The deepest group in Texas is U12 with 1,385 ranked teams. Here is the full breakdown of ranked teams by age group:

Age GroupRanked Teams
U121,385
U111,302
U101,244
U131,123
U14989
U15724
U16516
U19359
U17350

Why the younger groups are biggest: the youngest age groups carry the most teams because nearly every club fields multiple squads there. Depth thins at the older groups as players consolidate onto fewer, more competitive rosters.

League and Conference Parity

PitchRank rates every Texas team on one scale, so an ECNL team and a state-league team are directly comparable. Most ranked Texas teams compete in state and local leagues that carry no national-league tag; the teams playing in national and regional showcase leagues break down like this:

ECNL RL770 teams
ECNL170 teams
NPL159 teams
MLS Next AD67 teams
DPL56 teams
MLS Next37 teams
Aspire36 teams
GA34 teams
NL29 teams
EA7 teams

ECNL and its Regional League make up the bulk of Texas's national-showcase teams, with the GA, NL, MLS Next, and EA pathways adding depth across age groups. These counts cover only league-tagged teams — they are not the full 7,992-team ranked population, most of which competes in state and local leagues.

Biggest Movers in the Last 30 Days

These are the teams that moved the most while climbing into — or holding near — the top 100 of their Texas group over the last 30 days.

Climbing

El Paso Locomotive FC Lopez Eppl Locomotive (U10 Boys) — climbed 295 spots to #12 in Texas.

FC Dallas Midland-Odessa (U14 Boys) — climbed 246 spots to #66 in Texas.

Solar SC Rlntx Tremblay (U13 Boys) — climbed 245 spots to #41 in Texas.

Gulf Coast SC Gc White (U10 Boys) — climbed 243 spots to #78 in Texas.

Spindletop Youth Soccer Association Nabor Kaos D2 Association (U13 Boys) — climbed 228 spots to #75 in Texas.

Sliding

Inwood SC Houston Allstars South Nlfc (U13 Boys) — slipped 77 spots to #100 in Texas.

Aspire FC - AFC 2007 Black EDPL (U19 Girls) — slipped 77 spots to #93 in Texas.

Dallas Hornets Dfw (U17 Boys) — slipped 72 spots to #88 in Texas.

Sting SC NPL Rodriguez Pitcock 100 (U13 Boys) — slipped 71 spots to #90 in Texas.

Sting SC Robles (U13 Girls) — slipped 68 spots to #99 in Texas.

Top of the Table: Texas's League Leaders

The highest-rated Texas team in each national showcase league right now:

EAEast Austin SC EA Aguilas (U15 Boys)

ECNLSting SC ECNL Black (U17 Girls)

NL2010 North NL TX-S (U16 Girls)

How We Built This Report

Per PitchRank's analysis of 117,747 Texas matches over the past year, every ranked team earns a PowerScore from real game results — not surveys, tournament seeding, or reputation. Our rating engine weighs strength of schedule, goal differential, recency, and consistency, then recalculates the full board every Monday.

A team appears in this report only after it has played enough games to be ranked; teams with too little data are held out rather than guessed at. Match counts cover the trailing 12 months and exclude futsal and other non-counting results, so the 117,747 figure reflects the competitive Texasgames behind this season's rankings.

Find Your Texas Team

This report is a snapshot — the live rankings move every week. Browse the full Texas board by age group and gender, or search for your club to see exactly where it stands among 7,992 ranked teams.

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