Ontario youth teams win 2025 OPDL titles

Eight youth teams have qualified for Canada Soccer’s 2026 Player-Development Program Championship including 2025 OPDL Premier Division champions Woodbridge SC (boys’ U-16 and girls’ U-16), Ottawa South United SC (boys’ U-14), and LFC International Academy Mississauga (girls’ U-14).

Woodbridge SC, who won both the Boys’ PDP U-17 Cup and Boys’ PDP U-15 Cup in 2025, qualified three teams to the 2026 PDP Championship: they qualified for both boys’ divisions and the girls’ U-17 division.

As part of Canada Soccer’s Youth Competitions Network, the PDP Championship features four divisions across the PDP U-17 Cup and PDP U-15 Cup (boys and girls in each age category). Two Ontario teams in each of four OPDL divisions qualified for the 2026 PDP Championship, which will take place in the province of Québec through Labour Day weekend next September (the host city will be announced at a later date).

For the Boys’ PDP U-17 Cup, Woodbridge SC won the OPDL U-16 Premier Division while Vaughan SC finished as runners up. For the Girls’ PDP U-17 Cup, the same two clubs finished as OPDL U-16 Premier Division winners and runners up.

For the Boys’ PDP U-15 Cup, Ottawa South United SC won the OPDL U-14 Premier Division while Woodbridge SC finished as runners up. For the Girls’ PDP U-15 Cup, LFC International Academy Mississauga won the OPDL Premier Division while Pickering FC finished as runners up.

In the other OPDL divisions, Woodbridge SC also won the Boys’ U-15 Premier Division and the Boys’ U-17 Premier Division (after winning the PDP Championship in both divisions). Pickering FC, meanwhile, both the Girls’ U-15 Premier Division and the Girls’ U-17 Premier Division (after winning the Girls’ PDP U-17 Cup).

Canada Soccer’s Player-Development Program features a network of standards-based programs that represent high-level amateur youth soccer in Canada. Participating organisations, both clubs and academies, all meet the requirements for standards-based programming including recognition as an active National Youth Club Licensee. The 2026 competition will feature clubs from the BC Soccer Premier League, the Alberta Player Development League, the Ontario Player Development League, and the Québec Youth Soccer Premier League (Première Ligue de Soccer Juvénile du Québec).

 

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