Cedar Stars Academy was founded in 2011, we currently are home to 2500+ players across various continents, both male and female. The academy has league partnerships with the top organizations in youth soccer, including the US SOCCER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY since 2014. 

Cedar Stars Academy was founded by George Altirs in 2011 as a small but ambitious club looking to provide the very best coaching, facilities and support to families and players. The club quickly found success on and off the field, expanding, growing and eventually opening its doors to over 2,500 athletes across 10 divisions. 

Today, players from all over the tristate area travel to Cedar Stars Academy’s talent-enriched branches knowing they will be treated with respect and given every opportunity to succeed in the sport – all while learning valuable life lessons along the way. 

Cedar Stars Academy has now established itself as one of the premier youth soccer clubs in the US for developing quality soccer players, and producing high level teams and professional coaching. The result of this was admission into the prestigious MLS Next, a platform that puts the most talented teams and players on display for the Youth National Team Programs and U.S. Soccer, in 2014. 

Cedar Stars Academy continues to focus on becoming one of the top developmental programs in the world through professional training and participation in the highest divisions of youth soccer available, which includes but is not limited to: EDP, NPL, NEPAL, NJYS, and MLS Next. 

In December 2015, Capelli Sport (Division of GMA Group) partnered with German professional club MSV Duisburg through the purchase of a percent stake in the club, marking the first opportunity for outside investment in the club’s decorated history. Established in 1902, MSV Duisburg is recognized as one of the most historic clubs in all of Europe as it is one of the founding members of Germany’s premier soccer league, the Bundesliga. Capelli Sport has financed the operation to build the new youth locker room and functional building at the club’s youth talent development center and  was the initial phase of the partnership, focusing on the development of MSV Duisburg’s youth academy system. Capelli Sport continues to grow their partnership by outfitting the club with apparel and equipment.

The blue and white striped Zebra’s have been creating emotional and exciting football memories for over 120 years. They are home to National and International legends such as Bernhard Dietz, Bachirou Salou and Ewald Lienen. MSV has always been an important part of the history of the German Bundesliga. The teams success is evident of the passion and charisma of the Zebras!

HB Køge is a professional football club founded in 2009 as a merger of two of the proudest clubs in Danish football, Herfølge Boldklub and Køge Boldklub, both former Danish Champions. HB Køge was established through a mutual ambition of developing and running a football club with the aim to compete with the best.  In addition to the proud history and three Danish Championships, HB Køge and the two mother clubs have a great history in terms of developing talents. Both mother clubs have developed players for Danish and International football, as well as the Danish National Team.

HB Køge was formed in the summer of 2009 as a merger of Herfølge Boldklub and Køge BKs men’s football teams. Køge Boldklub, founded in 1895, was a leading force in Danish football in the 1950’s. In fact, Køge Boldklub was the first Danish football club outside Copenhagen to win the Danish Championship (1954). A leading force in Danish football in the 1950’s, Køge Boldklub repeated the feat in 1975. Herfølge, a town of approximately 7.000 residents five kilometres south of Køge, became famous when Herfølge Boldklub, founded in 1921, sensationally won the Danish Superliga in the summer of 2000. Lead by legendary former Danish international John ‘Faxe’ Jensen as player-manager, the minors fooled Danish giants FC Copenhagen and Brøndby IF and took home the title in the second season after having won promotion to the league.

In a bid to create a bigger football force, the two clubs mergedin 2009. Having competed in the Danish second tier since then, apart from a stint in the top league Superliga in 2011-12, HB Køge now fight to get back into the Danish top tier again. As part of this process, two former Danish internationals, Daniel Agger and Lars Jacobsen, took charge of the men’s first team in 2021.

After Capelli Sport started investing in HB Køge, the club’s amateur women’s team rapidly rose through the Danish leagues. Five sensational straight promotions lead them to the Danish top tier Gjensidige Kvindeliga. Having been won by either Fortuna Hjørring or Brøndby IF for the past 19 years, HB Køge incredibly broke the deadlock and took home the national league in their first attempt!  This led to two UEFA Women’s Champions League qualifiers against Sparta Prague. HB Køge continued surprising their opponents and beat the Czechs 3-0 on aggregate.  Playing against the likes of FC Barcelona and Arsenal FC in the UEFA Women’s Champions League group stage in 2021/2022 and Juventus in 2022/2023, HB Køge is now establishing themselves amongst the European top teams.

Barnsley Women’s Football Club is an English Women’s Football Club based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The club currently plays in the FA Women’s National League Division One North, the fourth tier of the English women’s football league system. The club was formed in 1982, under the name ‘Barnsley Ladies Football Club’. The club used this name for 34 years until the end of the 2016/17 Season, when it changed its name to ‘Barnsley FC Ladies’ for the following two seasons until the end of 2018/19. On 16 March 2018, Barnsley Women’s Football Club Limited took over the club and changed its name to ‘Barnsley Women’s Football Club’. In 2021, Capelli Sport became a minority owner of the club, becoming the exclusive supplier of all on-field and off-field player and coach apparel, accessories and equipment. Altirs owns 25% of the club.

Utenis Utena is a football club in northeastern Lithuania with both men’s and women’s squads. Originally founded in 1933, and re-founded in 2014, Utenis Utena has a tradition of excellence on the pitch that dates back nearly a century. With respect to the past, however, all eyes in Utena now look towards the future. In 2022, Capelli Sport became a majority owner of the club, becoming the exclusive supplier of all onfield and off-field player and coach apparel, accessories and equipment. Capelli Sport has ambitious plans to grow the Utena youth academy and give local talent the chance to develop and play both in Lithuania and throughout Capelli Sport’s network of European academies and clubs. In 2022, Capelli Sport became a majority owner of the club, becoming the exclusive supplier of all on-field and off-field player and coach apparel, accessories and equipment. The club focuses on identifying and developing top young talent.

Altirs and his wife, Elisabeth, have taken ownership shares of Accra based Ghana Premier League club Inter Allies FC and expanded Cedar Stars Academy to the African continent with CSA Ghana. The club is focused on recruiting the best young talent throughout Ghana, developing them through game experience and advanced training and will provide players further opportunities through their network in the United States and Europe. For the 2016/2017 season, three Inter Allies players are on loan to Altirs owned Harrisburg City Islanders in the USA 2nd Division league, USL. CSA Ghana, formerly Accra Youth, is a youth academy tied in to Inter Allies and is a feeder system to the pro team. Capelli Sport continues to grow their partnership by outfitting the club with apparel and equipment.