Youth football for Charlotte area students

The Charlotte Junior Orioles (CJO) is the youth football program for Charlotte area youth, which includes spring and fall flag football (K-4 grades no prior tackle), tackle football (3-8 grades), and camps. 

Teamwork. Excellence. Community.

Our Mission: To provide a youth football program designed to teach basic fundamentals of sports and sportsmanship to the youth of the community.

Presentational CJO Spring 2026 Flag Football visual

CJO Spring 2026 Flag Football - Spring 2026

Registration will be open March 2-20, 2026 and season dates will run April 20-May 19, on Mondays and Wednesday evenings. K-1 will play from 5:30-6:30p.m. and 2-4 will play from 6:45-7:45p.m.  Cost is $75/player and  practices and games will take place at Gobel field, located at 1149 S. Cochran Rd. Charlotte.  Players will receive an NFL flag jersey and at the end of the season will receive a certificate and flag belt to keep. Our Spring flag fundraiser is a cookbook Fundraiser- submit your recipes through April 23, 2026. Information will come out after to sell/purchase cookbooks. Please visit www.cookbookfundraiser.com, go to "login" and register your name and email to submit recipes. Use group login: "Cjobook2026" and password: goodfood35. 

*Note: all player families will be required to complete a code of conduct/player agreement form. These rules and expectations will be strictly enforced. 

Registration Status:
Open
Regular Registration:
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - Friday, March 20, 2026
Program Duration:
Monday, April 20, 2026 - Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Regular Registration Cost:
$75.00
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