About 1UP
Youth soccer training in Calgary since 2018.
Enjoy the process, supplement your club training and improve your game day performance, guaranteed. We are a well-established soccer academy in Calgary, offering technical training for players born 2005 to 2025. Our mission is to deliver top-quality training and create a clear pathway for youth to excel in our sport. Since 2018 we have trained more than 10,000 players across Calgary and Alberta.
Small group training, all year round
Our weekly small group training sits alongside club soccer: focused technical work in groups of no more than 8, grouped by birth year and level. Sessions move indoors for the Calgary winter and outdoors from spring, in the Southwest, Northwest and Southeast.
A program for every birth year
Mini 1uppers for players born 2023 to 2025, Fun Weekly Training for players born 2019 to 2022, then small group training for players born 2005 to 2018. We also run two-day skills camps, no-school day camps, summer camps, an Okanagan skills camp, and 1on1 and 2on1 private training.
Planned by professionals
Our staff includes current Canadian Premier League players and coaches with national team experience. That standard, with a family-friendly culture, is why Calgary parents have left 306 five-star Google reviews, and why more than ten of our alumni play professionally or for national teams.
The 1UP Training Philosophy
Before the first session, players are sent our 1UP Training Menu for the season, complete with topics, coaching points and session objectives. We vow to:
- Seek areas of improvement and strengths to improve each player.
- Use question and answer and guided discovery coaching to accelerate problem solving and creativity.
- Grow confidence. Train freely. Mistakes will be made and that is okay. Keep working through them to grow. The sessions will challenge you, and they should.
- Game realistic environments, so players relate training to their games.
