TORONTO - The Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) announced today its 2024 regular season soccer schedules, set to begin on Friday, Sept. 6.

OCAA MEN'S SOCCER REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE | OCAA WOMEN'S SOCCER REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE

KEY DATES
Regular Season Start Date: Friday, Sept. 6
Regular Season End Date: Sunday, Oct. 13
Qualifying Games (Divisional): Wednesday, Oct. 16
Quarter-Finals (Crossover): Saturday, Oct. 19
Championship Dates: Friday, Oct. 25 - Sunday, Oct. 27

MEN'S SOCCER DIVISIONS

WOMEN'S SOCCER DIVISIONS

The regular season schedule will feature a two-division format, with teams playing a single round robin within their division, plus two additional games for 10 total matches each. (With one fewer team in the men's East Division, these clubs will play a single round robin with three additional games).

Combined, OCAA saw three of its clubs earn national medals in 2023, including the provincial champion Seneca Sting (North York) winning the first-ever Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association women's soccer championship for the conference. Seneca begins its quest for a repeat when the Sting visit the Durham Lords (Oshawa) on Sept. 7. Both teams won OCAA medals in 2023 with Durham taking bronze.

The only team to hand Seneca a loss in 2023, the Centennial Colts (Scarborough), host back-to-back matches against the St. Lawrence Surge (Kingston) and Loyalist Lancers (Belleville) on Sept. 7-8, with an anticipated rematch against the Sting on Sept. 19 in North York.

In the men's league, the reigning OCAA champion Conestoga Condors (Kitchener) fell one victory short of a national title in 2023 and will begin its title defence at home against the Sheridan Bruins (Oakville) on Sept. 6. The rematch of last season's gold medal match will take place Sept. 18 when the Condors visit the Humber Hawks (Etobicoke).

The reigning national bronze medalist St. Clair Saints (Windsor) will make its regular season debut with back-to-back home matches Sept. 7-8 against the Redeemer Royals (Ancaster) and Mohawk Mountaineers (Hamilton). A rematch of the 2023 OCAA bronze medal game between Seneca and the George Brown Huskies (Toronto) will take place Sept. 11 in North York, with a return engagement to close the season on Oct. 12 at Esther Shiner Stadium.

Most of the soccer schedule will feature doubleheaders between schools alternating between men's and women's competition. A total of 85 men's and 90 women's games will be played over a span of 37 days.

Similar to 2023, the top eight teams in each division qualify for the post-season. The first round will consist of intradivisional play based according to seeding (1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, etc.). The winners will then advance to interdivisional quarter-final matches (East vs. West). The OCAA championships will consist of back-to-back days of semi-finals and medal matches at the home of the highest remaining seeds. In the event of a tie between the top seeds (eg. No. 1 East and West), the East team will host the women's championship while the West team will host the men's.

All OCAA schedules for the 2024-25 season, including dates, times and locations, are subject to change.

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Josh Bell-Webster
Marketing and Communications
Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
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E-mail: bell-webster@ocaa.com