Nationals picture coming into focus with nine Ontario soccer champions crowned

Nine Ontario Cup champions have been crowned. Seven more lucky teams will lift the trophy this weekend and Special Olympics finals will take place. Every year, clubs across the province vie for the chance to compete for the provincial championships. A tournament that begins with nearly 500 teams is down to the final few. This weekend t the tournament will culminate in finals at Oshawa Civic Stadium. If you can't attend the games in person you can watch them live on the web. Over 11,000 viewers took in the games online last weekend. Click here to watch all the games live on the OSA Livestream. Click here to read the Ontario Cup game reports. Click here for the schedule of the Ontario Cup final games.

OSA Coaching Conference - Save the date The OSA has announced that this year's Coaching Conference will be held at RIM Park in Waterloo. In the ever widening event, the conference will be held on March 21 and 22 and the first guest speaker has confirmed her attendance. Vanessa Martínez Lagunas is a FIFA Women’s Soccer Instructor, UEFA/DFB Pro License and NSCAA Premier Diploma holder and former player of the Mexico WNT. She has coaching experience at several levels of the game in Germany, Mexico and the United States in addition to being a featured clinician at the 2012/13 NSCAA Conventions. She is the current Head Coach at the University of Manitoba and is only one of 30 Female Pro License holders in the world. More details, including clinicians and special events, will be released in the coming months.

UPDATED - Changes to league structures coming for 2015 It has been drawn to the OSA’s attention that an error was made in the document sent out entitled ‘League structure changes in 2015′. The number of teams in a conference incorrectly stated 8-12 teams when this should have read 6-8 teams as defined in OSA Policy 15.0 Please circulate the corrected document for the attention of your Membership. The OSA League Management Committee is very aware of the different challenges facing regional leagues in the coming year and will endeavour to support Leagues in their pursuit of providing meaningful, player centric competition. Click here for the revised document on league changes.

Tickets to Women's World Cup 2015 on sale today The road to the Women's World Cup is well underway and now you can secure your place in the action. Stadium Passports and Stadium Half Passes go on sale today. To be eligible to purchase tickets to the Championship Match, played July 5, 2015 at BC Place, fans must purchase a Passport or Half Pass. Click here for more information on tickets.