Howell United
Holiday Cup Series Fast Facts:
· The Tournament accepts over 200 Teams from 7 states
· The Howell United Holiday Cup is Platinum rated tournament and is currently ranked the #24 Youth Tournament in the NATION for Boys and #152 Youth Soccer Tournament for Girls, by Gotsoccer.
· The Tournament is held at 4 or 5 different complexes around Howell NJ
· The Howell United Holiday Cup now has a Platinum ranking from Got Soccer and has become associated with the top tournaments in the Northeast, including the Spirit United Kickoff, FC Delco Players CUp, YMS Columbus Cup and PDA Spring Kick Off.
· We are 15 minutes from the beach and Boardwalk and 20 Minutes from Great Adventure!!! What a great way to End your SUMMER!!!
New for 2008:
- We are splitting the tournament into 2 exciting events, Labor day Tournament for Girls and Thanksgiving weekend for the Boys. Our Boys event is already one of the best in the Northeast, and we hope to Create a similar event for the girls over Laber Day Weekend
- Cup Flights - We are going to try to keep all flights to 8 Team Brackets so teams know their Schedules in advance. (2 groups of 4 with 3 group games and finals Sunday afternoon)
Registration Deadline –
Girls Labor Day Tournament July 20th
Boys Thanksgiving Tournament – October 25th
General Information:
The Howell United Holiday Cup is going into the 10th year of competition. Each year we strive to improve on the previous year’s event and take all suggestions seriously to make our tournaments the best they can be. We guarantee 4 games for all teams in the New Girl’s Holiday Cup Labor day Weekend. In the Boys competition we guarantee 4 games for all Small Sided teams and all Non-Cup flights of the Large sided competition.
Howell United Holiday Cup
Mission Statement:
The Holiday Cup is committed to quality above all else;
· Quality Competition
· Quality Event
· Fields
Quality Competition:
Selection Process:
The
Holiday Cup averages 200 applications for 150 +- spots per year for entry into the event. We spend a painstaking amount of time trying to make sure every team is flighted correctly, we are not always right but we find as much information as possible to support our decisions.
· team history
· results (yes, a 1-0 loss to top competition is better than a 10-0 win against much lesser competition)
· placement in state, regional, and national competitions
· team make-up
· other events of acceptance
· rankings
Quality Event
We try every year to make our event better. We take constructive critism seriously and do everything possible to correct any problems that occurred in the previous year. Because our event continues to grow the preparation for the event gets more and more cumbersome, to try and eleviate some of the issues that occured last season we have decided to break the event into 2 events. Given our limited number of volunteers it became apparent that our Thanksgiving event was beginning to out grow the club. By breaking it up into 2 events we expect top be able to keep the event much more player and coach friendly, Fewer sites to mamange, fewer fields to maintain ( and hopefully fewer fields means better quality as well) Also this allows more teams to play on our better fields.
Fields
The Holiday Cup has had issues with the poor quality of our fields in the past, while we are not sure when it will open, we expect our NEW soccer complex to change that perception. Please forget what you have heard about our fields and try us out in 2008 for the competition, then return in 2009 when we hope to debut our New Soccer Complex it’s going to be a whole NEW PITCH!!! As stated above, by breaking our tournament into 2 tournaments we will now be able to double the number of teams that get to play on our better fields, and eliminate our worst fileds from the tournament.
Entry Fees:
Girls Labor Day Tournament
August 29th, 30th & 31st
$425 for U8 - U10
$475 for U11-U14
$550 for U15 - U18
Be a part of the 2008
Holiday Cup!
