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Own your future.

Play your sport at a US college while you study. See which teams sign players from your country, and what a place there costs you.

Start the quizHow it works

For soccer, tennis, golf and swimming. Free, no account needed, and you get your first three matches right away.

Example: A midfielder from Germany, GPA 3.6, SAT 1400, budget $20,000 a year

  1. 1. Western Iowa Tech Community College

    NJCAA (two-year junior college)Strong fit

    Recruits from Germany: 2 players in its history, 2 in recent seasons. Full price about $14,944 a year. That is within your budget.

  2. 2. Genesee Community College

    NJCAA (two-year junior college)Strong fit

    Recruits from Germany: 4 players in its history, 4 in recent seasons. Full price about $16,733 a year. That is within your budget.

  3. 3. Barton County Community College

    NJCAA (two-year junior college)Strong fit

    Recruits from Germany: 3 players in its history, 3 in recent seasons. Full price about $18,702 a year. That is within your budget.

The real list the quiz gives this profile today. Yours is worked out from your own answers.

In the US, universities run the top level of sport for players aged 18 to 23.

More than 500,000 students play for a college team, and the schools give more than $4.3 billion a year in athletic scholarships.

NCAA figures, ncaa.org, 2026.

A year at a US college

You train with a team every day, travel to away games, study for a degree and live on a campus with other students your age.

Two players chase the ball in a night game between Stony Brook and Penn State
Women's soccer, Stony Brook against Penn State. Photo: Noah Riffe, CC0.

  1. August: you arrive early

    Fall teams start training a few weeks before classes begin. You meet your teammates before you meet your professors.

  2. Autumn: season and semester

    Classes in the morning, training in the afternoon, games during the week and at weekends. The school pays for the trips to away games, by bus or by plane.

  3. December: exams, then home

    The first semester ends with exams, followed by a winter break of about a month.

  4. Spring: the second semester

    Tennis plays its main season, golf its championships, swimming finishes in March. Soccer trains and plays friendlies.

  5. Summer: home, or summer classes

    From May to August most athletes go home, train on their own or take classes to get ahead.

A season week by week, and the hard parts too

A Christopher Newport University player shields the ball in a men's soccer game
Men's soccer at Christopher Newport University, Virginia. Photo: c w, CC BY 2.0.
Stanford players celebrate together on the field after a goal
Stanford celebrates a goal. Photo: Michael Marconi, CC BY 2.0.

Three things you find out

Who signs players like you?
Every roster lists each player's hometown. We count them per team, for many teams back to 2009, so you see which coaches have signed players from your country.
Where does a place open?
We estimate how many players leave each team after this season, and in soccer at which position.
What will it cost you?
The full price of every school, and your price after academic money where the school publishes its rules. Money for your sport you agree with the coach.
Players from outside the US
18,670
Roster entries, this season and past ones
357,904
Coach work emails
16,227
Schools whose scholarship rules we read
181

Counted today from the public pages of US college teams.

The steps, and what each one costs

From the quiz to your first day on campus. The costs are estimates for an athlete from Europe. Yours depend on your country, your sport and the school.

  1. Take the quizSix short steps. You get the teams that fit you, each with the reason. Give a budget and you also see each school's price.$0
  2. Build your profileYour athlete profile and a highlight video that you film yourself. We list what coaches expect to see in it.$0 to $350
  3. Take the testsAn English test (Duolingo or TOEFL). The SAT or ACT only if you want to: most schools no longer require them.$70 to $400
  4. Register as eligibleRegistration with the NCAA or NAIA Eligibility Center, which checks your school record, and a translation of your transcripts.$150 to $450
  5. Write to coachesYou write to the coaches yourself. Recruit, which opens soon, will add their work emails, openings by position and a draft for your first email.$849 a year, not on sale yet
  6. Talk, visit, decideYou speak with the coaches and agree your scholarship with them directly. Nobody takes a placement fee.$0
  7. Visa and flightThe F-1 student visa (the $185 application fee, the $350 SEVIS fee, possibly a new $250 visa integrity fee) and your flight.$1,000 to $1,500
  8. ArriveYour scholarship pays part of the bill, sometimes most of it. The rest is what you pay each year.your estimate

Before you fly you spend roughly $1,500 to $3,000 once, on fees, tests, the visa and the flight. From then on your scholarship covers part of the yearly cost, and the rest is yours to pay.

See which teams sign players from your country

Six short steps: your sport, your level, your grades, your budget. Your first three matches come right away, free.

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