Washington state high schools saw an increase of over 3,000 soccer players from the previous year for the 2016-17 school year. In 2015-16 a total of 18,285 high school students were listed as playing soccer in Washington. For 2016-17 the number is 21,340.

In 2016-17, 172,000 students competed in high school athletics in the state of Washington according to the latest numbers from the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Over the years goalWA.net has posted the numbers of high school soccer players in Washington.

In 2016-17 in Washington Boys High School Soccer was played by 11,301 players from 291 school teams.

The numbers for Washington in Girls High School Soccer were 10,039 players from 287 school teams.

Numbers of Players

Here are the trends for boys over the last 3 reports:

(2014-15) 10,354

(2015-16) 9,770 (-584)

(2016-17) 11,301 (+1,531)

Here are the trends for girls over the last 3 reports:

(2014-15) 9,232

(2015-16) 8,515 (-717)

(2016-17) 10,039 (+1,524)

Numbers of School Teams

Here are the number of soccer teams fielded by Washington schools over the last 3 reports:

Boys

(2014-15) 278

(2015-16) 290 (+12)

(2016-17) 291 (+1)

Girls

(2014-15) 273

(2015-16) 290 (+17)

(2016-17) 287 (-3)