D'Feeters Soccer Club History Page

CLUB HISTORY

The D'Feeters Soccer Club was founded in 1978. Currently, the D'Feeters Soccer Club has eight youth teams, one collegiate team, one women's amateur team and one over-30 women's team. Our youth teams participate in the Lake Highlands Girls Classic League. The LHGCL is considered by many to be the strongest girls youth soccer league in the United States.

D'Feeters teams have won North Texas State Cup Championships as well as Southern Regional Championships at the youth and women's levels. D'Feeters teams have competed for USYSA/USASA National Championships on eight occasions, winning the USYSA National Championship in 1981; Third in 1984; Fourth in 1996; Third in 2000; Fourth in 2001. Second in the USASA National Championship in the Under-23 Division in 1998 and 1999; Second in the Women's Amateur Division in 2000, 2004 and First place in the 1998 Kellogg's U/14 Girls National Championship.

D'Feeters teams have participated and won hundreds of local, regional and national tournaments since the founding of the club. They have traveled all over the United States winning such prestigious tournaments as WAGS tournament in Washington D.C., Junior Orange Bowl (Orange Classic) in Florida, the USA Cup in Minnesota, the Pikes Peak Invitational in Colorado Springs, the Pineapple Cup in Honolulu, Surf Cup in San Diego and The Dallas Cup in Texas.

D'Feeters teams have had great success in international competition as well. Over the years, D'Feeters teams have won the Dana Cup in Denmark, the Oslo Cup in Norway, the Gothia Cup in Sweden, the Robbie Cup in Canada and the Honk Kong Cup in Hong Kong. In 1987, as ambassadors of the USA, the '70 D'Feeters team was invited to travel as a guest of the Peoples Republic of China for 27 days, playing regional and national Chinese teams.

D'Feeters players have gone on to play for numerous college and university teams throughout the United States. These teams include; University of North Carolina, Southern Methodist University, Harvard University, Duke University, North Carolina State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas, University of Georgia, Texas Christian University, University of Florida, Kansas University, University of Alabama/Birmingham, University of Tennessee, University of Washington, University of San Diego, George Mason University, Brown University, Marshall University, University of Houston, Yale University, University of Virginia, University of Colorado, Texas A&M University and many others.

The knowledgeable and dedicated coaching staff for the D'Feeters Soccer Club has for many years been producing players that are highly recruited by colleges and universities throughout the United States.