Adult & Collegiate Flag
The Adult Flag Football Circuit and the Intercollegiate Women’s Flag Championship: Ontario’s top level of 5v5 flag for adult men’s and women’s teams and collegiate programs.
In partnership with the Detroit Lions.
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Live standings, schedules, results, player stats, streams and galleries are all on the circuit website.
What you’ll find
- Registration and deadlines for every event
- Standings for adult and collegiate divisions
- Event information: venues, schedules, maps, vendors
- Player stats
- Streams & gallery
Two competitions, one circuit
Football Ontario and the Detroit Lions are partnering to grow flag football across the province, giving athletes unique opportunities to connect with the NFL and the Lions.
Adult Flag Football Circuit
Open to Canadian and U.S. collegiate programs and competitive community teams, with divisions for adult men and women at the highest level of competition. Qualifier events lead to the Adult Championship.
Intercollegiate Women’s Flag Championship
Open to Ontario universities and colleges, with divisions for collegiate women’s athletes. The top teams earn a spot at the Football Canada Collegiate Championship in May.
See the circuit
Highlights and photos from the Detroit Lions Adult Flag Football Circuit.
Circuit dates
Ontario teams must attend at least one qualifier to be eligible for the Adult Championship. Confirm dates, venues and registration deadlines on playflagontario.ca.
Feb 13
Oshawa Open
Mar 13
London Open
Apr 2027
Intercollegiate Championship, Kitchener
Apr 2027
Adult Championship
How it works
Everything a captain or team manager needs to know before registering.
Registration
- Team captains or managers register and pay for each tournament by its deadline.
- Registration includes tournament entry, a jersey set (new adult teams) and rental flag belts.
- Every athlete needs a current Football Ontario flag membership through the National Registry.
- Ontario teams get registration priority. Out-of-province and international teams are first come, first served.
Rosters & rules
- Adult: up to 12 athletes and 3 coaches.
- Collegiate: up to 15 athletes, 3 coaches and 1 athletic therapist.
- 5v5, played under the IFAF flag football rulebook.
- Rosters, schedules, scores and stats run through TeamLinkt. Adult seeding is set by an online draft before each event.
Where the circuit leads
Every game is filmed, and the circuit is a direct route to national championships and Team Canada.
National championships
Top-ranked teams get priority to represent Ontario at Football Canada’s Senior National Flag Championship. The top intercollegiate teams get priority for the Collegiate National Flag Championship.
Team Ontario & Team Canada scouting
Circuit athletes are scouted for Team Ontario, and Canadian citizens and permanent residents are scouted for Team Canada flag camps through Football Canada’s National Team Pathway.
Game day
Every game filmed, live streams of semifinals and finals, professional photography, plus prizes and Detroit Lions and NFL merch.
Collegiate flag football
Women’s flag football is played at universities and colleges across Ontario. Teams compete through the OWIFA season and at Football Ontario’s Intercollegiate Women’s Flag Provincial Championship, with a path to the national championship.
Intercollegiate Provincial Championship
Held each spring in Peterborough. The Trillium Division features each school’s top team and the Great Lakes Division gives additional and developing teams a championship of their own. Teams are seeded by the previous year’s finish, with new schools seeded by registration time.
OWIFA
The Ontario Women’s Intercollegiate Football Association runs the collegiate season for 500+ athletes across 14 Ontario institutions: 5v5 non-contact flag in the fall and spring, and 11v11 contact flag in the winter.
Nationals and U SPORTS
Top Ontario teams advance to Football Canada’s Canadian Collegiate Flag Football Championship each May. Women’s flag football becomes a U SPORTS pilot sport beginning in 2027–28.
Team rankings
Recent champions, the latest collegiate results and the top six adult teams in the circuit. Live standings, schedules and results are on playflagontario.ca.
Collegiate Champions
Kingston
Toronto
Women’s Championship
Outaouais
London
Men’s Championship
San Diego
Montréal
2026 Provincial Championship Results
| Rank | Team | Result | 2025 finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen’s University | Champion | – |
| 2 | Western University | Finalist | 4 |
| T3 | University of Toronto | Semifinalist | 1 |
| T3 | Brock University | Semifinalist | 3 |
| T5 | University of Guelph | Quarterfinalist | 6 |
| T5 | Laurentian University | Quarterfinalist | 2 |
| T5 | Sheridan College | Quarterfinalist | 7 |
Results from the 2026 Intercollegiate Women’s Flag Provincial Championship at Fleming College, Peterborough. – = did not compete in 2025.
Top 6 Women’s Teams
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | London Legends London |
1012.5 |
| 2 | Rivals Toronto |
990 |
| 3 | Niagara Nitro St. Catharines |
985 |
| 4 | Sweet Heat Toronto |
975 |
| T5 | Double Blue Havoc Oakville |
960 |
| T5 | True Blues Toronto |
960 |
Top 6 Men’s Teams
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamilton Piranhas Hamilton |
1011.7 |
| 2 | Blues Clues Toronto |
985 |
| 3 | KGP Montréal |
975 |
| 4 | Junkyard Dawgs London |
960 |
| 5 | YMCCM Toronto |
955 |
| 6 | GTA Kings Toronto |
948.3 |
Adult circuit points are each team’s average across 2026 qualifiers (1st = 1000, 2nd = 975, 3rd = 960 …), plus a 25-point bonus for attending both qualifiers.
TEAM ONTARIO FLAG · 2026–2027
The Pathway to Team Canada
Football Ontario has unveiled the 2026–2027 Team Ontario Flag pathway, the only way for athletes to be identified for Team Canada. See every phase, date and cost for the Youth (U14, U16, U18) and Adult (Junior U20, Senior 18+) programs.