Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma, Etiwanda, and Cucamonga — this is our home, and for over 48 years, Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner has been serving this community with pride and purpose.
No other youth football organization in this city carries the history, experience, or legacy that we do.

Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma, Etiwanda, and Cucamonga — this is our home, and for over 48 years, Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner has been serving this community with pride and purpose. No other youth football organization in this city carries the history, experience, or legacy that we do.

Welcome to Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Football & Cheer — the heartbeat of youth football in the Inland Empire’s premier city Current page. We proudly compete in the Mt. Baldy Pop Warner Football Conference and continue to build on nearly five decades of service to our families and athletes Current page.

Our mission is simple:
Build leaders. Teach the game the right way. Develop character that lasts long after the pads come off.
We focus on fundamentals, discipline, teamwork, and life lessons that matter far beyond the scoreboard Current page.

We bring together boys and girls from across our city and give them a place to grow — not just as athletes, but as young people learning responsibility, respect, and unity through football and cheer Current page. Around here, we keep youth sports in the proper perspective: character first, community always, and team above self Current page.

Every volunteer in this program shows up with one goal — to make your child’s experience a positive and memorable one Current page.
As President, I’m proud to welcome every player, parent, and supporter into our RCPW family Current page.

We stand firmly behind the Pop Warner belief that scholastics and athletics go hand in hand. Excellence in the classroom and excellence on the field are both part of the standard here Current page.

RCPW is open to all youth who want to be part of something bigger — whether in football or cheerleading Current page.
Throughout the season, we work hard to keep our families informed with updated schedules, events, field locations, and conference standings Current page.

We are the Home of Champions — recognized as one of the finest youth football organizations in California, built on tradition, community, and heart Current page.

This is Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner.
This is our house.
And we’re just getting started.

Safety First

Kids compete with kids of similar age and size. Pop Warner is the ONLY youth football program (local, regional and national) that sets and enforces a strict AGE & WEIGHT MATRIX that reduces the risk and reality of injuries.

Did you know that Pop Warner football is safer than soccer? Pop Warner football has 12% fewer injuries per capita among 5-15 year olds than organized soccer in the same age range! (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS)

Why There Are No Personal Statistics

Pop Warner exists to use football, cheer-leading, dance and a respect for education to develop strong, smart, responsible, healthy young men and women. We give them experiences that build their appreciation for and understanding of leadership, teamwork, and discipline.

While individual statistics may be more common, particularly among older football players, Pop Warner only recognizes the athletic accomplishments of the team, not the individual. We don't track personal tallies of touchdowns or yards rushing per game. We don't count sacks or blocked kicks. We applaud the athletic efforts of the team to reinforce the importance of teamwork, with each member.

We don't try to build stars. We don't want to over-inflate a young ego, nor do we want to risk injuring the self-esteem of a young person. Whether our kids have good days or bad, they are still an integral part of our team…and always will be.

Getting to The Pop Warner Super Bowl

The road to the National Championship is a long one for the football players, cheerleaders and dancers of the Pop Warner Little Scholars program.

Players begin practicing on August 1 in preparation for their season openers, usually held during the last week in August or first week in September. A participant can be considered eligible for the season when he/she has met the four basic criteria for participation: A candidate must provide proof of age, parental consent, a medical examination, and academic fitness.

What makes Pop Warner unique as an organization is our commitment to academic excellence among our participants. A participant must maintain a 2.0 Grade Point Average/70 percent in school in order to participate during the season.

If a child doesn’t reach the 2.0/70% requirement, a Scholastic Eligibility Form is filled out by that child’s school to determine whether or not the PWLS program is beneficial for him/her. Once this is determined, the child’s grades are monitored throughout the season. Our objective is to build sound minds and bodies for our leaders of tomorrow.

A football team plays a 7 to 9 game schedule and at the end of the regular season, usually during the last week in October, a team prepares for league playoffs. Playoff games are only for the Junior Peewee, Peewee, Junior Midget, Midget, Junior Bantam and Bantam levels. We do not have playoffs at our Mitey-Mite level.

Once a league champion has been decided and a team has won the right to participate in regional championships, all report cards are verified to ensure that all the players are academically eligible. Those teams that win at the regional championships are invited to Disney’s Wide World of Sports™ to compete for a national championship in their division. In 2000, more excitement was added to Pop Warner football when a Division II national championship was added and in 2005, Pop Warner began crowning overall Division I champions for Jr. Pee Wee, Pee Wee & Jr. Midget.