About ECSA

Now in its 47th year, Seattle’s Emerald City Softball Association is the Pacific Northwest’s largest softball organization geared to LGBTQIA+ and non-LGBTQIA+ individuals.

The ECSA Open Division is proud to feature 27 teams in the A/B, C, D, and E Divisions. Regular season games are played on Sundays, April through June. We also host a weekend tournament on July 4. Looking for a team? Place a Team Matchmaker ad or email our membership director.

The ECSA started in 1980 in Seattle as a group of friends playing ball and has grown to be a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ players to partake in the competition and spirit of softball. It is now one of the oldest and largest gay softball leagues in the nation.

As a proud member of iPride Softball (IPS), the ECSA sends its top teams to each year’s Gay Softball World Series. The 2026 World Series is Aug 31 – Sep 5 in Columbus, OH. IPS represents more than 20,000 players and 1,000 teams in 58 member cities across the U.S. and Canada.

Future World Series locations: 2027 San Francisco, CA

Seattle Monsters with the 2011 Portland Cup Championship Trophy

The ECSA Hall of Fame members at the 2018 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

Seattle Wolfpack winning the 4th place trophy at the 2019 Palm Springs Winter Classic

Celebrating 47+ Years!

ECSA is celebrating 47+ years as an organization, full of memories, camaraderie, community, and softball! Join ECSA as we celebrate the past 47+ years and look towards many more to come!

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What members are saying

ECSA is so much more than softball. It not only brought me graciously into its community, it brought me my wife, two beautiful children, and their dads.

Ali Peters

I have really found a home, and a family, in the ECSA. It’s more than just the sport that I enjoy, it’s the camaraderie, love, and support that this league offers. If you’re looking to join an organization that will lift you up and accept you for who you are, then the ECSA is what you’re looking for. I look forward to meeting you!

Kevin Hamel

Joining the ECSA, in 2005, was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have met some of my best and life-long friends in this league. It becomes a wild and crazy family, with all kinds of opportunities to meet people and travel all over the US to play in tournaments, and it’s just the most fun thing you can do!

Rusty Garner

For years I wondered how you made friends in Seattle. It turns out you join an ECSA softball team. I’ve met the most supportive, sincere, trust-worthy ride or die friends. It’s only my second year and the whole experience has been better than I could have imagined.

Jeff Gonzales

If you love ECSA, submit your 1-2 sentence testimonial to secretary@emeraldcitysoftball.org