About Us

San Fernando Valley FC is a Men’s semi-professional soccer team competing in PREMIER DIVISION of the United Premier Soccer League (UPSL), the nation’s largest FIFA and U.S Soccer Federation sanctioned semi-professional league.

San Fernando Valley Football Club (501c3) is a non-profit organization providing professional playing, training, education, and mentorship opportunities to young adults from the San Fernando Valley and surrounding Los Angeles neighborhoods.

There is no other organization offering a program like ours. Our players train and play at no financial cost so that provides all talented players an equal opportunity to try out and play at a competitive level. We train Monday thru Friday and provide our players with strength & conditioning, technical work, tactical work, team building, video analysis and sports psychology.

• COMPETING IN SOCAL NORTH PREMIER DIVISION of the UPSL
• UPSL Fall 2021 SoCal Division I Western Conference Champions with wins over SoCal South & SoCal East Champions
• UPSL Fall 2021 SoCal North Division I Champions with Undefeated Record
• 2022 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2nd Round

Our mission is to provide a safe and professional environment for young people to push themselves to not only the maximum of their soccer abilities, but of themselves.

The organization was founded in 2017 by former Peruvian professional player turned coach, Carlos Cortez. After having coached his youth competitive club team for many years, Carlos noticed a gaping hole in the system. What do these kids do after they finish playing and graduate high school? Some will play in college but very few will have professional opportunities while most will fall somewhere in between going to community college with a side job or getting back into bad habits that brought them to the sport in the first place. With a demographic mainly of first-generation Americans going to college, it is often not a viable financial option. There were and are so many amazing players and young people being left in the dust. It was here where the idea to continue providing a healthy, yet competitive environment was born.

It is our commitment to develop healthy human beings on and off the pitch. Regardless of if these players develop into full professionals, play college or decide to go another route, our mission is to prepare them to be kind, tolerant, confident and intelligent human beings that can go out and make a positive contribution to the world. We are hopeful that the values we’ve promoted as an organization will be carried on by them into their respective communities.