NCAA D1 Soccer in Dublin and Galway

Participate in a training session at a local field in the area.

Get a friendly introduction to Ireland’s capital city, led by your Tour Director. Discover an urban landscape of Georgian buildings, castles, and cathedrals. Stroll bustling O’Connell Street, once (at 150 ft wide) the widest street in Europe, and still the busiest thoroughfare in Dublin. Pass shop after shop of local and global wares and flairs, along with a lush street-meridian lined with tall trees and ebony statues of Irish leaders. Make your way to Parnell Square, an antique scape of red brick townhouses and classic Irish theaters. As you wander the streets, take in the international glamour of Ireland’s most cosmopolitan city.

Discover Trinity College, the oldest university in Ireland. Trinity was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. The beautiful campus features cobbled squares, gardens, a picturesque quadrangle, and buildings that date from the 17th to 20th centuries. Trinity College is also home to the Book of Kells, an 8th-century version of the four Gospels decorated with elaborate scripting and illumination. We will view this famous treasure and other early Christian manuscripts in the Colonnades, an exhibition area on the ground floor of the Old Library.

Play an international friendly match against a local club or academy team. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels and have the opportunity to make friends for life.

Participate in a light training session or a walk through at a local field. This training session is designed to prepare your team for upcoming friendly matches.

Attend a professional soccer match featuring teams from the top leagues. Seeing the top talent in the world in person would itself be an unforgettable experience, but add the passionate crowds singing, cheering, and chanting, and you will enter an atmosphere that can only be understood through personal experience.

Croke Park has been at the heart of Irish sporting life for over 100 years. This magnificent stadium is actually the third largest in Europe. Its size is only part of its greatness, however, as you’ll discover on this eye-opening, access-all-areas tour. From quirky insights into why Croke Park’s grass is always greener to learning about defining moments in Irish history, the passionate Tour Guides will take you on an inspiring journey.

Play an international friendly match against a local club or academy team. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels and have the opportunity to make friends for life.

Participate in a light training session or a walk through at a local field. This training session is designed to prepare your team for upcoming friendly matches.

Visit Newgrange, Ireland's best-known prehistoric monument and one of the archaeological wonders of Western Europe. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is an amazing feat of engineering that measures 36 ft high, 260 ft in diameter, and consists of 200,000 tons of stone, including a 6-ton capstone.

Meet and greet the bayside city likened to San Francisco on a walking tour led by your Tour Director. Discover a traditional Gaelic culture turned trendy with college students, artists, and writers in the midst of a buzzing Bohemian culture of 50,000 people. The journey begins at the Spanish Arch (actually a pair of stone arches speckled with greenery) constructed to guard the quays where Spanish merchants docked their boats. Stroll along residential Quay Street into bustling High Street, a micro shopping mecca lined with all kinds of shops, coffeehouses, and outside eateries. Venture outside the buzz and discover a one-of-a-kind pyramid-shaped spire atop Ireland’s second largest medieval parish house, St. Nicholas Church. Meander through Eyre Square’s Kennedy Memorial Park, a green oasis where locals gather to lounge, socialize, and attend musical performances. Bordering the lush grounds, find the 17th-century Browne Doorway, a real entryway transported in 1900 from its original location at the Browne Mansion. Another highlight is the original set of cannons from the Crimean War, and the bubbling fountain adorned with a steel sculpture of a traditional broad-masted ship (hooker).

Attend a professional teams' training session. Witness the conditioning techniques of a professional club, drills designed to enhance skills, and strategic and tactical training relating to an upcoming match. This is an ideal opportunity to learn from the pros and take that learning back to your club!

Play an international friendly match against a local club or academy team. Your team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels and have the opportunity to make friends for life.

Participate in a light training session or a walk through at a local field.

Enjoy one of Ireland's and Europe's most interesting and scenic areas, The Burren. Carved by nature from carboniferous limestone, the view manages to be simultaneously desolate and beautiful. Sheets of rock jut out and seem to undulate in a kind of moonscape as far as the eye can see. We will stop to view the unique rock formations, as well as the Poulnabrone Dolmen, a portal tomb dating back to 2500 BC. Somehow, delicate wildflowers and curling ferns thrive in this strange landscape that was created 300 million years ago. Spend time at the Cliffs of Moher, a series of dramatic undulating cliffs plunging 700 feet down to the Atlantic Ocean, offering unforgettable views of Ireland's west coast. On a clear day, we may be able to see the Aran Islands in Galway Bay as misty shapes off in the distance. Those who choose may climb O'Brien's Tower, a viewing point built for the benefit of Victorian tourists.

Attend a professional soccer match featuring teams from the top leagues. Seeing the top talent in the world in person would itself be an unforgettable experience, but add the passionate crowds singing, cheering, and chanting, and you will enter an atmosphere that can only be understood through personal experience.