Coaches and Parents,
We draw your attention to the NJYS Respect Campaign and encourage participation
(click here for coverage from NBC). We know there are conduct issues, but we also know there are many examples of players, coaches and teams doing great things and deserve equal, if not more, attention.

That said, we invite you to celebrate the efforts of the Ocean Township 10U Girls Surge team, winners of the April Respect Campaign. 
Click here to read our official announcement about their achievement. Also on that webpage, we encourage you to watch a congratulatory video from Paige Monaghan of Gotham FC and Nathan Harriel of the Philadelphia Union.

Second, we encourage you to lead by example and help us collect and recognize more of these great stories occurring in our communities and on the field. It could be as simple as a player or coach helping a referee by signaling an offsides on your own team. 

Click here to submit a Respect Ambassador nomination.

Thank you for your continued support of youth soccer.
Evan Dabby
NJYS Executive Director

Save the DATE
Piscataway SC 41st Annual Fall Classic
Sept 10-11, 2022
The Annual Fall Classic is back again this year.
Last year we had 189 teams in attendance and expect 200+ this year.

 An email will be sent out once registration is open.
6/23 for returning Teams and 6/30 for new teams.

 Same Format as previous years.
4 Games (2 Saturday and 2 Sunday) Guaranteed U8 through U14.
U15/16 only 3 games (1 Saturday and 2 Sunday) Due to HS Games on Sat AM.

 The Tournament will be at one location as always, The PSC Green Acres Soccer Complex at 450 Sidney Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, with plenty of parking at the adjacent Piscataway High School. Reserved Parking adjacent to the fields for Coaches only. All in one location to give you a true tournament feel.

 Please share this information with your fellow coaches within your club.
 Please feel to drop me an email for information on Multi Team Discounts from One Club and with any questions.

Click Here for a copy of our Rules.
 
Thanks
Mike Majorczak
Tournament Director
Piscataway SC Fall Classic
September 11-11, 2022
mw.majorczak@gmail.com
Team Entry Fee$:
U8 $200
    U9-U10 7v7: $525 – 4 Games
    U11-U12 9v9: $550 – 4 Games
    U13-U14 11v11 $575 – 4 Games
    U15-16 11v11 $350 (3 Games only)


Some of the best blind and visually impaired soccer players in Ontario took to the pitch this past weekend in Mississauga at the 2022 Ontario Parasport Games.

North Mississauga SC and Pickering FC battled it out in a head-to-head four match series, played at the Paramount Field House indoor soccer facility.

For a full recap of the 5-a-side blind soccer at the 2022 OPG, please click here.

A new survey has been launched by the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), and the responses from Ontario Soccer members are of vital importance to ONN’s work. The ONN is an independent network for the 58,000 non-profit organizations in Ontario, focused on policy, advocacy, and services to strengthen Ontario’s non-profit sector as a key pillar of our society and economy. The survey only takes 10 minutes to complete, and is open until May 31, 2022. Click here to learn more about the ONN pandemic pulse check for the future of Ontario’s nonprofit sector survey.

Click here to complete the survey.

If you have any further questions, please contact the ONN atinfo

Ontario Soccer is excited to provide an exclusive & time-limited offer for Registered Ontario Soccer Match Officials, brought to you by SoccerX. In partnership with our friends at SoccerX, Ontario Soccer has put together an exclusive, limited time, special match official kit offer, which can benefit both new and returning match officials, with a special discount of 50%!

This is an outstanding opportunity for new and returning match officials to get a new kit at a great price! But don’t delay, as this offer is only available until May 22, 2022.

For more details on the exclusive SoccerX Match Officials Kit promo, please click here.

Working with our members, Ontario Soccer has teamed up with Victor Insurance, a leading Canadian provider of specialty insurance, to put together a comprehensive employee group benefits plan. Setting itself apart from many traditional insurers, Victor works with carefully selected partners, all leaders within the insurance industry. This combination of specialization and expertise allows Victor to provide a unique range of insurance services.

Ontario Soccer Member organizations have the exclusive opportunity of joining this industry-leading group benefits plan to ensure their employees are covered by this comprehensive suite of benefits.

For more information on this exclusive offer, click here.

The Canadian Sport Policy is set to be renewed in February 2023. The renewed sport policy will help identify Canadian sport priorities. It will also guide how federal, provincial and territorial governments advance sport for the next 10 years (2023 to 2033). Through this survey, you’ll help renew the Canadian Sport Policy.

The Canadian Sport Policy helps to guide policy, program and funding decisions. To make sure the new policy reflects what Canadians want for sport, it’s important we hear from valued, diverse stakeholders such as you, from across the country.

To find background information about the Canadian Sport Policy, click here to visit the SIRC website.

Click here to take the survey.

Ontario Soccer announced a milestone partnership that will see professional soccer in Ontario uniting to support the promotion and development of the game in the province. Expanding on its existing relationship with two of the foremost leaders of the professional game in Canada, both Major League Soccer Pro-Club Toronto FC (TFC) and the Canadian Premier League (CPL), on behalf of its Ontario-based member Clubs: Forge FC, York United FC and Atlético Ottawa, are now Premier Partners of Ontario Soccer.

To read the full announcement, please click here.

Ontario Soccer is partnering with Nothers – The Award Store, to bring you the Team It Up program, an exciting cost savings opportunity for the 2022-23 season to our member Districts, Clubs, and Leagues, supporting grassroots soccer across the Province.

The Nothers Team It Up program is proud to provide a subsidy to help our member Districts, Clubs, and Leagues with award expenses to bring you some budget relief during this recovery season.

Under the Ontario Soccer umbrella, the more organizations that participate and Team It Up to take advantage of this great program, the more each individual medal will be subsidized. Think of it as organizations teaming up together along with Ontario Soccer to get the best price for medals possible.

For a detailed program breakdown, please click here.

Please contact Brad Harwood at Nothers – The Award Store for more information.

Canada Soccer held their first in-person Annual Meeting of Members since the global pandemic, as members from all over the country came together to celebrate the Canada Soccer 2022 Award Winners. This year’s list of winners included the late Gary Miller, Ontario Soccer Director of Soccer Operations, who was awarded the inaugural Tony Waiters Coaching Excellence Award.

To read more about this distinction, including comments from Canada Soccer’s Jason deVos and Ontario Soccer CEO Johnny Misley, click here.

Gary’s tremendous legacy included multiple tenures at Ontario Soccer, and he continues to be honoured every fall with the OPDL Gary Miller Charity Shield.

For the full article on the Canada Soccer 2022 Award Winners, click here.

The Canadian National Para Soccer Team recently competed at the 2022 IFCPF Men’s World Cup, finishing 9th. The result marks Canada’s fourth top-10 finish in nine appearances at the IFCPF Men’s World Cup since 2005. Samuel Charron was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2022 IFCPF Men’s World Cup, marking the second time Charron has won the honour at the biennial tournament, having last won the award in 2019.

Charron, 24 from Ottawa, Ontario, helped Canada match their best ever finish at the event, with the 9th place finish. Charron has made 56 career international appearances for Canada since he debut in 2012 at age 14. Charron led Canada with five goals and three assists in five matches played. Charron is also Canada’s all-time leading para soccer scorer, with 48 goals in 56 caps.

For more information and an event recap, please click here.

Canada Soccer have announced the eNational Team roster for the upcoming FIFAe NationsSeries Online Qualifiers. Returning eNational Team Captain, GoalMachine, will be joined alongside AJ, the winner of Canada Soccer’s eNational Team Selection Tournament. GoalMachine, who is currently the highest ranked Canadian based player on the EA FIFA22 servers, is also a FIFA esports professional player for Toronto FC.

Online qualifiers will kick-off on May 20th, and all of the Canadian Soccer eNational Team matches will be streamed live on twitch.tv/CanadaSoccer.

Click here to learn more about the announcement.

The Ontario Player Development League (OPDL), Ontario Soccer’s youth high performance league, has officially entered its eight season, with games kicking-off all across the province.

With more than 190 teams registered across all OPDL divisions for the 2022 season, there will be upwards of 3,500 full-time players competing and developing through the OPDL and Talented Pathway.

Visit OPDL.ca for results, schedules, scores, and more!

The 2022 Provincial Xcel Showcase Ontario vs Québec Series, presented by Gatorade Canada, has wrapped up with the event being deemed a tremendous success! Squads representing Ontario Soccer and Soccer Québec played a fierce and intense competition, finishing with an even series record of 6 wins, 6 losses, and 6 draws.

Top players from the U14, U15, U16, and U18 divisions participated in a three-match series between April 29 and May 1, 2022.

Ontario Soccer provided a livestream broadcast of six games over the course of the weekend. To watch the archived game broadcasts, visit the Ontario Soccer Livestream channel.

Click here for more information on the Provincial Xcel program and 2022 Provincial Xcel Showcase Ontario vs Quebec Series.

Click here to view the photo gallery from the 2022 Provincial Xcel Showcase Ontario vs Québec Series.

After two years of collaborative planning, a pilot project for the Central Region of Ontario called the “IModel” (Integrated Model) is set to go this week on fields across Huronia, York Region, Toronto, North York and Durham Region. In total, 210 youth aged (U13-U18) competitive boys and girls teams will partake in this pilot spanning the 2022 Outdoor Season.

The new IModel concept is an innovative approach to provide a new competition and player development opportunity within the LTPD “Soccer 4 Life” competitive stream. These are the competitive levels for youth soccer at what has been known as District and Regional Level soccer.
Visit www.ontariosoccer.net/imodel for more information.

For the full article on the IModel Pilot Project, click here.

The MilkUP Ontario Cup, the Provincial Soccer Championship for the LTPD Soccer for Life Stream, is the largest Club competition of its kind in Canada.

This year will mark the 106th edition of the MilkUP Ontario Cup, with 17 divisions participating.

The MilkUP Ontario Cup 2022 Draw results are posted on the Ontario Soccer website. Click here to view the MilkUP Ontario Cup 2022 Draw results.

Follow Ontario Soccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to share in the excitement of the MilkUP Ontario Cup 2022!

Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), the marketing group representing Ontario dairy farmers and the largest sector of Ontario agriculture, has expanded its collaboration with Ontario Soccer to become the newest Premier Partner of the provincial organization, and the exclusive title partner of the prestigious Ontario Cup Provincial Championships.

The MilkUP Ontario Cup, the Provincial Soccer Championship for the LTPD Soccer for Life Stream, is the largest Club competition of its kind in Canada. One of the oldest sporting events in the country, Ontario Soccer’s Ontario Cup was first staged in 1901. The MilkUP Ontario Cup 2022 will mark the 106th edition of the competition and celebrate the arrival of DFO as the newest title partner.

Ontario Soccer is thrilled with the continued support DFO will bring to Youth leadership development.

Click here to learn more about this partnership.