● 11 Months · Full Year ● German High School ● German League Eligible ● Host Family or Boarding House
This Isn’t Study Abroad.
This Is Your Season.
Designed for dedicated international high school players, the Full School Year program places you inside the German football system — not as a visitor, but as a registered club player. You attend a German school, live with a host family or in the boarding house, and compete in the German league alongside players your age.
No other program offers this level of German league eligibility. This is the complete player development pathway — soccer, education, independence, and cultural immersion in one year abroad.
This Is What a Real Soccer Gap Year Looks Like.
A soccer gap year only works if the year itself is real — not a shortened camp dressed up as a season abroad. This program is built for players taking a genuine soccer gap year: 11 months, one club, one school, one city. Enough time to actually adapt, actually improve, and actually be judged by what you can do over a full season rather than a two-week trial.
Most players considering a soccer gap year are choosing between finishing high school a different way, taking a deliberate pause before college, or simply deciding that one more year of serious development matters more right now than anything else. Whichever reason brought you here, this program gives that year structure: registered club soccer, real school, real housing, and a full German season to show what you can do.
From Abuja to Hamburg.
Two families, one shared path into the German game — proof that the Full School Year program isn’t theoretical. It’s already happening.
One recommendation. Two players in Hamburg. Chibby’s family introduced Davet’s — now both boys are training in the same city, at the same club, in the same school. This is what the Full School Year program actually looks like for the families who choose it.
Training. School. Housing. Everything.
German League Eligible
German High School
Host Family or Boarding House
Germany’s Second-Largest City
Train the Body. Train the Brain.
While you’re in Germany, you can also train with Matthias Timmer — a neurofeedback specialist who works with professional soccer players at the highest level in Germany. It’s computer-based brain training that helps with the split-second decisions on the field and bouncing back mentally after a mistake, available in Berlin as an add-on to your time abroad.
Focus, faster reaction times, stress management, better recovery, and reaching a flow state on demand — the same program a real player used on his own way to NCAA Division I soccer in the US.
The Same School.
The Same Neighbourhood.
Jonathan Tah — current centreback of the German national team, now at Bayern Munich — grew up in Hamburg and played for HSV. He attended the Heidberg school in north Hamburg, just 5 miles from Duvenstedt. After her studies, Marion Dieseler started working at the same school.
School year players train and study in the exact environment that shaped one of Europe’s finest defenders. Same streets. Same school. Same football culture.
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Trusted by Families Around the World.
“My daughter’s skill level has gone up drastically since doing their camp. She wanted to go overseas with them — she is doing it again next summer!”
“My kids went to Germany with them. Don’t be concerned about the quality of this program. It’s the best we’ve ever done by far.”
Start Shorter. Build Up.
Read the Parent Guide First.
Costs, where they’ll actually live, who Eva and Tobias are, getting around Hamburg, and exactly how residency works — the questions every parent asks, answered honestly, before you fill out the form below.
Read the Parent Guide →Your Year in Germany
Starts With a Conversation.
Fill out the form and Marion or Mirko will schedule a call. We’ll walk you through travel, school enrollment, housing options, and the full program — no pressure, no commitment required.
Prefer email? marion.dieseler@tm17pro.com · +1 854 444 9971
One Year in Germany. A Lifetime of Difference.
German school. German club. German league. No other program comes close.
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