Division Coordinator Duties

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The Division Coordinator serves as a liaison between the Regional Commissioner (RC) and the coaches, referees and parents regarding any questions, problems or general information throughout the season.  An effective Division Coordinator will have a good understanding of the information contained in the AYSO Reference Book .

Division Coordinators are known by many similar titles including Age or Gender Coordinators or Directors. They are responsible for managing communications and team formation within a player division. Typically, their responsibilities include:

  • Organize and chair team formation night with all coaches and assistant coaches to review evaluations and modify as necessary;
  • Separate players by age and skill levels and form BALANCED teams;
  • Ensure each team has a coach, an assistant coach, a team representative, and a sponsor;
  • Generate complete team rosters (players, coaches, assistant coaches, and sponsor);
  • Ensure uniforms are properly distributed;
  • Schedule divisional games and fields;
  • Collect scores and standing to distribute appropriate plaques and trophies to teams for tournaments and regular season play;
  • Organize and schedule any make-up games if necessary;
  • Ensure all coaches complete player evaluation forms and collect forms by end of regular season;
  • Ensure evaluations fairly reflect demonstrated abilities of players;
  • Turn in player evaluations to regional commissioner; and
  • Serve as a liaison between regional commissioner, coaches, referees and parents regarding any questions, problems, or general information throughout the season.


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Division Coordinators are critical to AYSO’s philosophy of providing “Balanced Teams” for all participants and ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to experience youth soccer in a fun, fair, positive and safe family environment.

Any size Region can benefit from having Division Coordinators whether one Girls and one Boys Coordinator for the entire Region or Division Coordinators for each gender and age division. Division Coordinators can play a vital role in helping the Regional Commissioner and Regional Coach Administrator manage the teams.

Division Coordinators should complete the training as outlined in the  Regional Board Member Training Grid