2025 Flag Football

PLAYING AGE

BCS D6 – D13 player Age Limits

In the BCS Spring 2025, none older than 13 – as of 7/1/2024. So a child can play at 13, but only if he turned 13 AFTER 7/1/2024 .

Kids aged 5 as of 7/1/24 – but not yet 6 on that date can play Future Stars.

Girls can play through 9th grade – age doesn’t matter (GBCS only).

What is my child's playing age?

BCS Age Divisions

GBCS Grade Divisions

All new players must show proof of age via birth certificate. No exceptions!

General GBCS Questions:

We are one of the only All-Girl flag football leagues in Southern California and one of the few in the entire United States.

We are helping prepare girls to play high school flag football – which is now an official CIF sport.

Two local high schools – Mira Costa & Redondo Beach already have teams, featuring former BCS players who played in our Boys/Coed division (before we had the GBCS).

Our first season we had 150 girls – in our third season we grew to 275 girls – talk about rapid growth!

In the Fall 2024 we added 9th graders and offer 3GU, 5GU, 7GU and 9GU divisions.

Again – unlike the BCS, GBCS teams are formed by Grade, not age.

When are games scheduled?

In the Fall, games are tentatively scheduled to start the first or second week of September. In the Spring they usually start the first week of March. Games are Friday Night, Saturday/Saturday Night or Sunday/Sunday Night.

For our Spring Season, we usually start in mid-March.

The season schedule will be posted online once field space is completely confirmed, which unfortunately isn’t generally until a week or so before the season starts due to field space assigning with municipalities/schools.

How are team rosters set?

The BCS (mixed boys and girls) is Draft format. That means Head Coaches may partner with ONE Assistant coach PRIOR to the draft. If the players are highly ranked, they may incur draft penalties – ie not picking until later rounds.

Due to the enormous popularity of the GBCS, and to ensure parity, the GBCS is now moving to a full-draft format in all divisions except 3GU.

Like the rest of the BCS, Head coaches will only be allowed to partner with one Assistant Coach prior to the draft. Coaches can of course have as many Assistants as needed – but must draft their kids.

We will continue to keep GBCS as a “by grade” league, vs. by age.

3GU – (1st – 3rd grade) will continue to be “Coach formed” – meaning no draft, and coaches can form their teams to keep our youngest kids playing with friends.

Note: League reserves the right to merge age/grade divisions if we have low (or high) registration in specific divisions. Our goal is as to have a small age/grade bands as possible!

Future Stars – League forms teams with input from coaches – various factors considered, including school affiliation, geography, friendships and talent parity.

The Draft is a week or so after the combine, and Teams generally start practicing a week or two before the season starts.

Teams generally carry between 12-14 kids. Each team is required to have 13 – as long as there are enough kids registered in that division. Since every player is required to get at least 14 plays, smaller teams are preferred, but with kids often playing multiple sports, teams need to make sure they can afford to miss a player or two. Over 15 years we’ve found 13 to be the sweet spot in terms of size.