About Us

In the late spring of 1986 a group of 3 soccer enthusiasts in the Western Pa area, became interested in bringing a indoor soccer to our area of Western Pa. At that time there were only two facilities for indoor Soccer in all of Western Pa. These where dasher board facilities. They were long distances away. They were suited for the dasher board game which at that time was the focus of indoor soccer in our area mostly cause of Pittsburgh's franchise in the now defunct MISL. When the Spirit went defunct in 1986, the future looked bleak for Indoor soccer. The Founders had contacts in the soccer world and one of them had seen an article about another version of Indoor soccer called Mini-soccer or Futsal. After contacting Alex Para then Operations Director of US Futsal, they received the data on Futsal. After reading the information, the founders liked much of what they read. Of particular interest was the fact that Futsal was played on a Basketball Court. They then decided they would look for a place to play and set up a league. The search was long and frustrating, eventually they discovered a old gymnasium in Manor, Pa. The three invested their own capitol and formed Keystone Indoor Kicks, to finance the repairs and equipment necessary to operate Futsal Leagues

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The 1986 season was the very first Futsal game played at Keystone Indoor Kicks in Manor. The game started out slowly and grew every year, West Penn Futsal organization was started the following spring. Futsal has seen steady growth with leagues forming at various locations across the Pa-West area.

The Organization is following a plan for a slow measured growth rate with emphasis on expanding in ways that do not adversely effect existing leagues. This is especially true of the interplay requirements that require leagues to hold interplay so new leagues can take time to grow despite a lack of numbers initially. The Syte Cup and various tournaments are also played every year in the Pa West Area.

Penn West Futsal is considered a hotbed of Futsal in the US and its teams have represented it well in the National Championship competition.

This past 2008-2009 season, there were 12 teams (from Keystone Indoor Kicks qualifying tournaments) go to the Northeast Regional Futsal Championship in New York City, and came away with three 1st place winners.  In the same year, there were eight teams that qualified for the Futsal Nationals, and Coach Steve Bradnam's U11G Foothills teams are "National Champions"!

With the formation of new Futsal Clubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Keystone Indoor Kicks should be sending more and more teams to the Regional Championship and the Futsal Nationals.