Barça Residency Academy is the ideal place for players to develop on the field, in the classroom, and as a person among the most elite youth soccer players from the United States and around the world.
Barça Residency Academy teams compete in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy along with the highest caliber youth academies and MLS youth academies in the United States. The Development Academy provides the highest level of youth competition for the best youth players through a focus on an increased number of training sessions and fewer games. Like Barça Residency Academy, the primary focus of the Development Academy is player development.
Tryouts are required to be amongst the most elite soccer players in the United States. We have nine teams that compete for every age group from U15 to U19.
Our coaching staff includes top FC Barcelona coaches and is nationally and internationally recognized for their professional playing and coaching careers at the highest levels collegiately, professionally, and internationally. They are committed and dedicated to providing superior youth development, training, and coaching for our student-athletes.
Alongside our exceptional top-level coaching staff, we offer more than 150 Grande Sports World employees who support the student-athletes and help them achieve and maintain elite levels of performance.
Having fun and staying busy is easy when you live on our award-winning campus Barça Residency Academy students are friendly, diverse, creative, and eager to reach their next level. The entire campus has wifi and every dorm room is equipped with a flat-screen TV. Our community game area includes a pool table, ping pong tables, basketball hoops, video games, flat screen TVs to watch Champion League, EPL, La Liga, MLS, and Bundesliga League games. Soccer tennis, swimming, fitness, and playing pickup games on the fields are common activities when student-athletes are not on an excursion or community service project.
