For over 10 years, Gateway Flag Football has provided an opportunity for young men and women (ages 4-17) to participate in flag football year-round. Gateway Flag’s youth league provide the best possible experience for the 2000+ youths who participate annually in our program. Featuring a fall, winter, and spring season every year we focus on team building combined with individual player improvement all within a fun, competitive environment. We welcome all of Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres and surrounding areas. Practices and games are conveniently located in Gateway at the Sherman Soccer Complex. Games are played "under the lights", a great family friendly event every week. Practices for are once a week on Mondays or Wednesdays and games are on Friday nights.
NFL Flag at Gateway is part of NFL Flag, the largest youth flag football league in the US with 1600+ teams, and 500,000+ youth players, with leagues operating in all 50 states. It is the official Flag Football program of the NFL (real NFL-branded uniforms) and has an NFL Flag Tournaments where winners of each region are invited to play at the NFL Pro Bowl as well as an NFL FLAG Open Tournament that gives winners a chance to attend the national NFL FLAG Bowl at the Super Bowl. Gateway Flag was recently honored as one of NFL Flag top 100 programs.
Here are the details on our league:
- There is a Fall (Sep-Nov), Winter (Dec-Feb), and Spring (Mar-May) season.
- Registration for the Fall opens in May, Winter in August and Spring in November.
- Practices will be held on Monday or Wednesday nights at 6 or 7 PM or Friday before the game. The coach chooses the night/time.
- All games are played in Gateway at the Soccer Complex at 13260 Griffin Drive.
- The regular season games are played on Friday nights from 6:15-9:00 PM. Playoffs for the top teams in each division will be on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights the week after the last regular season game. For the winter season, one or two games may be played on a weeknight (Mo/Tu/We).
- We have multiple age divisions that will be adjusted based on registrations.
- There are early bird and sibling discounts that will automatically be applied when registering.
- Shorts are not included with the registration. There is an option to purchase pocketless shorts during registration; prices are $14.95 for core shorts and $22.99 for reversible team shorts. The shorts and any other item purchased during registration (gloves, socks, sleeves, mouthpiece) will be shipped with the uniforms after teams are assigned. The reason for the delayed shipping is so these items will match the NFL team color your child is assigned to.
- All players that register will make a team; evaluations (Combine) are for rating the kids for the draft.
- You do not have to live in Gateway or attend school in Gateway to play in our league.
- Teams are chosen automatically based on ratings by a computer program designed to make the teams as even as possible. We cannot take coach, teammate, practice night or carpool requests.
- Every player must have a mouthpiece. Mouthpieces will be available for purchase every week for $5.00.