St. Louis CITY SC’s U-15, U-16 and U-19 teams will travel to California to compete in this season’s MLS NEXT Fest. The event will go from Friday, December 6 to Wednesday, December 11 at the Empire Polo Ground in Indio, California.
MLS NEXT Fest is the largest event in the 2024-25 season, as over 400 youth soccer teams from the United States and Canada will compete in the MLS NEXT Fest Showcase across four different age groups. The six-day event is one of the most attended by college, national team and professional scouts/coaches during the entire MLS NEXT season as more than 630 matches will be played in a single location.
The U-15, U-16 and U-19 teams enter MLS NEXT Fest having enjoyed a good run of success through the first halves of their respective seasons. The U-15s have a 13-3-2 record through 18 games this fall while the U-16s have gone 10-5-2 and are unbeaten in their last five games. The U-19s, the newest age group for CITY SC’s academy, have gone 11-4-3 picking up strong wins against various MLS academies throughout the season. CITY SC’s four academy teams have earned a combined 29 shutouts so far this season.
The MLS NEXT Fest schedules for each team can be found below:
U15
December 8: Toronto FC at 12:30pm CT
December 10: Orlando City at 10am CT
December 11: Inter Miami CF at 10am CT
U16
December 8: Atlanta United FC at 9:15am CT
December 10: Seattle Sounders FC at 1:30pm CT
December 11: Inter Miami CF at 1:30pm CT
U19
December 6: CF Montréal at 9:15am CT
December 7: New York City FC at 11:30am CT
December 9: D.C. United at 11:30am CT
