FC Denver Club History

      Club President Eric Fulton founded FC Denver during the winter of 2005/2006 with the vision of creating a more competitive playing environment than the local indoor and outdoor coed leagues were offering.  Initially the club was founded as one men's team, filled with players of various skill levels, ages, and nationalities that took the field for the club’s first game in March 2006. On that blustery day in March at the Foothills Soccer Fields in SW Metro Denver, FC Denver was born. After a fun, competitive and challenging first season, the team started to gel and take an important turn as more talented players were getting involved with the team.



After a few seasons of play as a single men's team, it became obvious that if the team was going to grow it would need to be able to add more talented players in the place of some of the less skilled teammates. With an already full roster, the time that every adult men's team will face had come – the time to determine its future, to make the decision on whether it would be willing to replace the less talented teammates with newer, more talented players? Or, would it keep the same group of guys that had become friends and acquaintances and just enjoy playing the game for the games sake? FC Denver decided that it could do both; allow the roster space for new, more talented players to join the club and give the current players a place to play by adding a second team. This addition allowed the club to grow competitively, while providing the clubs loyal returning players a team to play for. This decision would be the sign of growth to come for the club.

A few seasons later, FC Denver had grown and now had an array of teams including: three men's open teams, an Over 30 Masters team, two women's teams, and one coed team. These were busy, influential and downright exhausting times as the clubs brand was growing rapidly, but at the cost of rising fatigue for members of the clubs leadership. The club was fun and welcoming to all players at any skill level, which lead to teams of various skill levels being created. During this time, the club was not able to ensure a level of quality o uniformity between its teams. A rethinking of the clubs structure and associations during the 2009 year, lead the club to go in another direction that would forever change its course. FC Denver chose to drastically downsize its size while focusing on quality over quantity. Within one year, the Club went from 7-8 teams to 3 teams. These changes helped to create a new vision for FC Denver. One of less teams, and higher standards of player skill while creating tight-knit, focused, and quality teams. The results on the field improved dramatically.

Within a year of the change to a smaller, more quality-focused organization, FC Denver made it to the D1 Championship game in the top league of Colorado Adult Men's Soccer. Since then, the club has continued to push for league championships, regional tournament championships, and national accolades. FC Denver attended its first out of state tournament in February of 2011, participating in the 2011 Silver Mug Tournament in Las Vegas. The team did very well and qualified for the knockout stages of the tournament after making it out of the grueling round robin group stage.

During the Spring/Summer of 2011, FC Denver restarted its women's soccer program after a 1-2 year hiatus. The Women's program has taken a bit of a different approach. We are building a large network of players, offering many playing opportunities (outdoor, indoor, tournaments), and then holding tryouts for each of those events throughout the year. This structure gives the female players the most flexibility possible while being able to produce the highest quality team for each of these leagues/events.