Safe Soccer Clearance

In order to help create the safest environments for our participants, U.S. Soccer launched the Safe Soccer Clearance program.

The Safe Soccer Clearance program centralizes safeguarding elements in one, easy-to-use solution that includes the Center for SafeSport’s core training, purpose-built safeguarding education, annual verification of contact information, and a USOPC background check.This solution provides: 

1. Simplicity: This is a one-stop safeguarding solution for the entire soccer ecosystem that helps reduce the administrative burden and cost to scaled adoption
2. Transparency: Single database to allow members to see the status of those participating
3. Accountability: Allows members and U.S. Soccer to work together to keep individuals who pose a risk out of the game
4. Standardization: National minimum standard for clearance, reducing duplicative costs and efforts

By standardizing and in many cases reducing the cost of background checks, providing administrative dashboards exclusively for our members, and adjudicating the appeals process - we aim to make Safe Soccer Clearance the gold standard for safeguarding in America.

Following nearly two years of pilot and beta development, we officially launched the Safe Soccer Clearance program in June 2025.  Through just the first phases of implementation, more than 100,000 individuals became fully Safe Soccer Cleared, and organizational adoption continues to accelerate across the country.

To ensure we continue meeting member needs and upholding our commitment to continuous improvement, we commissioned an external expert review to identify evidence-based improvements to the program’s content and delivery, while also conducting a full evaluation of the platforms and processes behind Safe Soccer Clearance. These findings will drive targeted improvements over the next year, ensuring that the program remains effective, useful to members, and built to sustainably scale across the US Soccer ecosystem.

Please reach out to safesoccerclearance@ussoccer.org to find out how your organization can adopt the program.