Youth Football | Chicago Bears Official Website

The Chicago Bears and NFL celebrate "Play Football Month" every August. The Bears provide several hundred complimentary tickets to different youth football leagues throughout Illinois. Select youth football players attending the game get to participate in pre-game and halftime festivities, which includes joining Bears players for the National Anthem and scrimmaging at halftime.

Each year, the Chicago Bears host the Special Olympics Illinois Flag Football Tournament at the Walter Payton Center brought to you by United Airlines. United Airlines staff volunteer for the day to help facilitate the camp and Chicago Bears players visit with the athletes. We are proud to partner with Special Olympics and their athletes.

The Chicago Bears partner with USA Football to host a youth coaches clinic at Halas Hall every year. Hundreds of coaches from numerous Illinois youth football organizations attend the clinic. Join more than 100,000 youth football coaches across the country that have taken action by getting certified. Register for this clinic and advance your player health and safety education. In this clinic, you will gain the knowledge focused on health and safety, transformational coaching, quality coaching, abuse prevention, equipment fitting, shoulder tackling, blocking and defeating blocks

Junior Bear Tackle Football is a free, tackle football league serving over 700 boys and girls, ages 8-13, at 17 different parks throughout the city. Participants compete in either the 8-10 year old "PeeWee" Division or the 11-13 year old "Varsity" Division against kids their own weight and age. The program is supported by Bears Care and the teams are coached by park district staff as well as volunteers.

Bears Inner City Flag Football is a free flag football league designed for boys and girls, ages 9 to 12, who live in Chicago Housing Authority developments or scattered site housing. The league is administered by the Park District in partnership with the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Housing Authority. The program is supported by Bears Care and the teams are coached by community volunteers recruited with assistance from the Chicago Police Department (CAPS).

NFL FLAG is the National Football League's premier youth football program for kids 6-14 years old. Available nationwide, including all 32 NFL markets, NFL FLAG is a community-based turnkey program that provides all youth the opportunity to play in an organized NFL non-contact football league. Every team receives official NFL team-identified footballs and every participant receives their favorite NFL team-identified reversible jersey and official NFL FLAG belts. For more information, please visit www.NFLflag.com.