AB INITIO AD FUTURUM

The Ancaster Legacy Football Club was founded in 1985 as The Ancaster Youth Soccer Club Inc, and is the leading provider of soccer to youths & adults in the Ancaster, West Hamilton Mountain and surrounding areas.

Club Mission Statement

Ancaster Legacy Football Club (ALFC) is a proud and supportive non-profit organization, passionately committed to the ongoing development of players and coaches, valued by our members and our communities.

The mission of ALFC is to create a positive environment and supportive infrastructure in order to provide members of our community with the opportunity to develop physically, intellectually and socially through the sport of soccer.

Club Vision

To be recognized as a premier soccer club of choice where every player can expect an optimal learning environment with consistently superior coaching, and training facilities and where the community acknowledges that the Club consistently demonstrates its leadership in providing easy to understand and accessible player programs and volunteer opportunities which are exceptionally well conceived and organized and supported by clear timely communications.

Our Mission

Key Principles

In order to help achieve its mission, ALFC will strive to:

• Consistently create a fun-filled, positive experience for every participant in their respected programs and encourage the development of social aspects of the game
• Always put the best interest of the player above all others
• Promote sportsmanship, respect, and sensitivity to the other players, coaches, parents, and referees
• Enhance player self-esteem, confidence, emotional development and overall character
• Provide equal access to the highest quality and most appropriate of programs of development for both girls and boys
• Listen and seek to understand – our customers, our team, and our sponsors
• Provide an environment for referees to develop skills and techniques needed to referee the game of soccer
• Provide an environment for coaches to develop skills and techniques needed to teach the game of soccer
• Be a constructive contributor to the betterment of our community
• Assure that all adults associated with the program are exemplary role models of sportsmanship, leadership and support
• Maintain a balanced perspective on the outcome of games by being committed to first becoming best, then becoming first

Our Core Values

Commitment

• To making decisions in the club based on what’s in the best interest of the players
• To create a cohesive inclusive club environment
• To the continued development of coaching through ongoing education
• To clearly and effectively communicate to all club constituents
• To promote the growth, as well as the development, of the game in the community

Pride

• To take pride in the accomplishes of our community, and members
• To take pride in the growth and development in each and every player’s development
• To take pride in the teaching the value of teamwork, respect and a sense of accountability to each other

Passion

• For the game
• For loyalty to people and organization
• Balance
• That ASC club provides an environment which is as concerned with overall player development and retention as it is with talent identification and competitive excellence

Community

• To ensure a sense of responsibility and contribution to our community, its volunteers, our members and sponsors
• Providing the due respect to self and others and maintain the environment of team work, collaboration and growth
• Ensuring the safety of our players, volunteers, and volunteers and making sure to give them trouble free experiences