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Season Kickoff

Updated: Sept. 26, 2026

The Gainesville Over-40 Soccer League season officially began on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 with over 90 players participating. The games are being played on Wednesday evenings, with rain-out games rescheduled for the following Friday. We have 8 teams in our inaugural season. At the Jonesville Soccer Park we use 2 fields simultaneously with games starting at either 6:30 or 8 pm. Directions and other info is linked here.

The league administration is done through Sporting Gainesville Inc. a subsidiary of Sporting Jacksonville. Official player and team registration and payments are done through their playmetrics server.

Our Mission

Updated: Sept. 26, 2026

Our mission is to provide an opportunity for fellowship and quality soccer play for the older members of our Gainesville area communicty

Our continuing need is to assess how many people are interested in playing in this league for the spring and subsequent seasons. We have currently 8-teams, with 14-20 players on each team's roster and over 100 total player participants. If there are enough interested players we will expand the number of teams starting with the spring season. If you are be interested in participating, primarily for the spring and after, then please complete the form linked here and at the top of this page.

League Rules

Updated: Sept. 26, 2026

This is an 8v8 competition on a 3/4 size field, with goalies and full-sized goals. The rules include:

  1. must be 40 years of age or older at the time of play.
  2. 35-minute halves, with a water break in each half.
  3. no slide tackles.
  4. subbing on the fly from midfield.
  5. no offsides.
The full set of rules are available here.