Boston Bolts
Background
Scorpions SC (girls) and FC Greater Boston Bolts (boys) merged into FC Boston in 2015.
Club History
Boston Bolts Soccer Club (original name) was founded in 1986 making it the oldest soccer club in Massachusetts. The club boasts a top level and professional coaching staff. Bolts players come from throughout eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The soccer club was one of the original eleven youth soccer clubs selected for the US Soccer Development Academy.
The club merged with the Greater Boston Soccer Club in 1990 to form FC Greater Boston Bolts.
In the Spring of 2012 the FC Greater Boston Bolts was renamed the FC Bolts Celtic along with a new logo; this reflects the club’s development and global reach. The club has affiliations with the 1.) Bayside Bolts in Rhode Island 2.) established FC Londonderry Bolts in New Hampshire and 3.) has a partnership with Celtic FC, the premier soccer club in Glasgow, Scotland. The club’s goal is to continue to expand strategically, providing an opportunity for top players in New England to become part of the Bolts organization.
In July 2014 SCOR FC merged with FC Greater Boston; SCOR will operate under the FC Bolts Celtics name. Read the SCOR FC / FC Bolts merger announcement.
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In 2020 the FC Bolts Celtics were renamed and branded as the now current Boston Bolts.
Club Composition
Bolts teams compete in the local New England Premiership (NEP), USCS Per-Academy League, Region 1, and the U16 and U18 boys teams compete in the US Soccer Development Academy.
Older Bolts teams also compete in showcase tournaments throughout the country. Bolts players and alumnae play in college, on the Olympic Development Program, Regional and National pools, and professionally in the US and internationally.
Camps/Clinics
- Bolts Girls Summer Soccer
- Bolts Girls Soccer School (high school prep)
- Bolts Girls Soccer School (developmental)
- Bolts April Vacation Soccer Academy
- Ainscough Soccer
- Spring Goalkeeper Training Sessions
Young Players
FC Greater Boston has a dedicated Junior Academy to properly educate and develop players in the ages of 5 – 9.
Players learn the proper development skills; technical, tactical, physical, and psychological. All players are accepted and train in small groups broken up by age and ability. Players from the Junior Academy serve as a feeder system into the Bolts boys and girls NEP level teams.
Facilities
FC Bolts Celtic utilizes some of the top soccer facilities:
- Harvard Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium
- Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School – Edward Field
- Brandeis University – Gordon Field
- Middlesex School
- Citizen’s Bank Fields at Progin Park
- Salem State College
- Mount Ida College
- Framingham State College
- Belmont Hill School
- The Rivers School
- Brimmer & May School – Orr Field
- ForeKicks II
- Sudbury Fieldhouse
- Solomon Schechter Day School
- The Meadowbrook School
Website
- FC Bolts Celtic has an informative and easy-to-use website.
- News and current events are very current and informative for all levels – whether players or coaches or just the casual interested party.
- The site does a great job of highlighting alumni and the origins of the club which dates to 1986.
- The website is “plugged into” the major social media sites allowing great communication.
- No “search” feature allowing users to look for information quickly.
We were with the Bolts before they merged with the Scorpions and then after. They really went downhill after the merger (as evidenced by the recent reverse merger). I don’t recommend.
Parents, if you have child under the age of 13 and want him/her to develop and become a good player, don’t ever bother to go to Bolts. They do not care and coaching is not good at all. It is all about Academy. You will be just another “cash cow”. Look at all U11-U13 Bolts teams, they are the average at least or not good at all. Only older academy teams have a great coaching and club really care about these team. All my rating for younger age groups.
Maybe the club has changed since 2012, we are new to the Bolts. However with U12 and U14 players, we have 2 excellent teams with good rankings and Excellent coaching! Just to point out – there have been many changes at the Bolts in the last 2 years.
Love the Bolts; not many tournaments and love the coaches; good experience all around
We liek the Bolts too! We especially like the coaches as they are great with the kids, some can be VERy serious but, for the most part, all are great.
Good and competitive tournamounts.
Our experience with the Bolts has been very good. The development of younger players coming through from NEP to Pre Academy teams and the ability to play up when developmentally right for kids. Tournaments they have played in of high quality and competative for the teams.
Coaches are of very good, with many years experience of youth club and college coaching. Camps this past year had youth coaches from the Glasgow Celtic FC club involved and was very well done, many of the clubs coaches there observing the sessions.
Facities, have also been very good.