Niagara to host Ontario and Canada dodgeball championships in 2027

Niagara has lined up two of the country’s biggest dodgeball weekends for 2027, with Sport Niagara setting the Dodgeball Ontario Provincial Championships for Feb. 27-28 at Canada Games Park in Thorold and the Dodgeball Canada Club Championships for April 28-May 2 at the same complex. The announcement extends a run that has already made the region a familiar stop for the sport’s top teams.

The return is built on the 2026 provincial championships, held April 4-5 at Canada Games Park in Thorold, where roughly 300 athletes competed for provincial places. Valkyrie won the women’s gold medal match and Saiyan Elite took men’s gold, giving Niagara a championship weekend with enough scale and quality to bring the events back the following year.

The provincial tournament is important because it sits inside Dodgeball Ontario’s sanctioned system, which uses World Dodgeball Federation rules. That makes Niagara more than a one-off host site. It is becoming part of the competitive pathway that shapes who reaches the national level, and the 2027 provincial return gives local athletes and clubs another chance to stay plugged into that ladder at home.

The bigger prize for the region is the Canada Dodgeball Club Championships, which Dodgeball Canada describes as an annual foam event bringing together qualified club teams from across the country. Dodgeball Canada’s 2027 bid package calls the Niagara edition the 11th anniversary and 10th edition of the event, a sign that this is an established national championship with history behind it, not a new tournament testing the market. For Niagara, hosting it at Canada Games Park puts the region in position to present itself as a national destination for the sport.

Sport Niagara is also keeping the calendar active before those championships arrive. Dodge Wars: Corporate Throwdown is scheduled for Jan. 30, 2027, at Canada Games Park, and Sport Niagara describes it as a one-day event that brings together corporate, political and community teams under Dodgeball Ontario’s official event staff and ruleset. That gives the region a bridge between grassroots fundraising and elite competition, while keeping local volunteers and organizers engaged through the winter and spring.

Taken together, the 2027 slate shows Niagara trying to do more than host two banners on a wall. It is using Canada Games Park, a working local organizing base and a steady competition calendar to build credibility with the sport’s governing bodies, deepen club activity and keep championship-level dodgeball in the region beyond a single weekend.