Camps with football in San Francisco, California 2025

• Perfection

Modern infrastructure, magnificent stadiums and gyms, a professional staff of coaches in combination with professional psychological and sports medical assistance form an ideal environment for the professional and personal growth of young athletes.

• International and multicultural environment

Along with residents of California and immigrants from other North American states, there are many immigrants from other countries in American sports camps. Communicating with each other, children and teenagers get an idea of different cultures, customs and traditions, find friends from other countries, forming an international sports community.

• Official licenses

International sports camps are licensed by the Association of Summer Camps of America (ACA), regional associations of football teams - this serves as a confirmation of the high quality of work, guarantees high results and safety of staying in such a camp.

• Variety of Extracurricular Programs

Any modern sports camp offers not only football training, master classes and individual lessons, but also a wide range of extracurricular programs - sports, music, creative and entertaining + all kinds of excursions and clubs.

• Professional staff

The staff of summer football camps in and around San Francisco are specialists with one or more higher educations in a medical or psychological profile and significant experience: your child will be under the supervision of a caring highly motivated professional 24/7.

• Immersion in the English language environment

The language of training in American sports camps is English, it is also used in everyday conversations with educators, coaches and peers. Such a dense immersion in the language environment will allow you to replenish your vocabulary and ensure high learning efficiency.

• Opportunity to take a look at your favorite school or college

Very often, football camps in San Francisco are organized on the campus of a school or college - by choosing the right camp, a student or applicant will get a unique chance to study their future alma mater before submitting documents. A week or a month of life on campus will allow you to learn such details that cannot be read on official websites and student forums!

• Opportunity to receive a scholarship

For international students, the summer football camp in San Francisco is also interesting because teenagers not only combine English and their favorite sport, but also get the opportunity to take a closer look at their future university. Football agents, on the other hand, treat expat students on an equal footing with local students and are willing to offer gifted young people sports scholarships that cover part or even all of the cost of tuition at the university.

When choosing a sports camp for their child, parents usually want to have a more or less detailed idea of the conditions in which the holidays will pass, what the child will be fed, where and how they will live, and how to spend their free time.

In a camp on the basis of a student or school campus, students have access to spacious halls, magnificent stadiums or football fields equipped with locker rooms, showers and other necessary equipment, professional coaching, medical and pedagogical staff.

• Living conditions

Students can live in a campus residence, professional host families, or (less often) residential buildings of the usual format. Each scenario has its pros and cons. For example, older teenagers will be more interested in being among their peers, especially since living with teammates will save a lot of time commuting to the stadium/football field, to the gym and back.

Host families are ideal for younger teenagers or those who still need care and supervision from their elders (these responsibilities can be assigned to professional guardians). In addition, living with a host family, students gain an invaluable experience of immersing themselves in everyday life in the United States.

As for living conditions, the difference here is not very great: on campus, children live in rooms of 2-6 people, in a host family, accommodation is individual, less often with a peer of the same sex (another student or a guardian's own child). Amenities can be both personal (shower, bathroom and toilet) and shared. Many camps offer older teens the opportunity to live in a separate room (but they often charge extra for this).

• Meals

The menu is adapted to intense training, taking into account their schedule and rhythms; Sports nutrition specialists are involved in its development. Great importance is attached not only to the qualitative characteristics of food, but also to its range and taste. In a host family, students share morning and evening meals, and on weekends, all the meals with the guardian's family; In this case, children have lunch in the camp canteen or cafes/restaurants in the city.

If necessary, official representatives or guardians can agree on a special menu - for example, vegetarian, vegan or halal.

As a rule, camps accept children starting from the age of twelve, but some institutions welcome students aged 8 or even 6 (in this case, students must be accompanied by parents or professional guardians). There is no need to worry - the child will be under the supervision of professional coaches and teachers with specialized education around the clock.

Enrollment in the camps is open and non-selective. The level of training of young athletes does not matter - neophytes and professionals will simply be divided into groups in which they will be comfortable training. Distribution takes place on the first day. First and foremost, physical fitness, age, special skills, or lack thereof are taken into account. The groups are quite small - 5-15 students. For younger students, training is full of a game component, but the older the child becomes, the more strict and tough the coaching becomes. The duration of training depends on the chosen course - from several weeks to a year (football academy), every day there are 2-3 training sessions with a total duration of up to 6-8 hours.

Some camps offer additional classes in English, mathematics or science (both as part of the general program and for a fee, optional). The intensity of such lessons can vary from 10-12 to 25-30 academic hours per week. Language classes complement the training and are held in the afternoon. Optional classes are held for individual money - personal or in a group, general education or special (specialized vocabulary or preparation for standardized language exams).

Sending a teenager to an American football camp for the summer is not cheap, especially in California: a week of classes here will result in $1700-3000, the final amount depends on the chosen program, the number of additional options and accommodation conditions.

What is included in this amount?

• Training
• accommodation in a camp or host family,
• good meals,
• camp identity (uniform, caps, key chains, backpacks, water bottles, etc.);
• incentives and souvenirs in various forms (medals, cups or certificates),
• one or more sightseeing trips,
• textbooks and sports equipment.

Air travel, medical insurance and transfer to the camp and back, and electives are paid separately. In addition, the teenager needs pocket money for personal needs.