When CCL adds more Canadian teams, frozen February matches could be the norm 21 Feb 2018 It could become our annual cold-shaming-of-teams-from-other-parts-of-CONCACAF festival. Oh, hi there, Mexican champs! Welcome to -20 C! Oh, hello L.A. Galaxy. Welcome to Winnipeg in February. No, this isn’t “bad” weather to us. This is NORMAL weather to us.
CanPL V-P James Easton talks about how rosters will be built, and competition will be shaped 31 Jan 2018 Easton shared some thoughts on how he sees the league, and what the long-term goals are when it comes to developing Canadian players.
Ledgerwood makes the move south to Calgary Foothills 17 Jan 2018 With FC Edmonton not running a professional program in 2018, Ledgerwood had a conundrum. He needed to find work, he had a possibility of returning to Europe to play, but with a wife and young son, his family circumstances had changed since he last played across the Atlantic.
Organic team identities, team contract options, single table: What CanPL can learn from MLS 15 Jan 2018 As CanPL moves toward its 2019 launch as this country’s division one, despite the presence of three Canadian sides in MLS, it will be interesting to see what the league takes away from MLS — and what it stays away from.
Promotion-relegation. Independent-club system. The future of CanPL, as seen by its new commissioner 10 Jan 2018 The new commissioner of the Canadian Premier League prefers the independent club system. He dreams of a time when Canada has a Premier League, a second division and a third division — and teams are promoted and relegated through those leagues. He envisions Canadian pro soccer teams from coast-to-coast.
Make mine a double double: Tim Hortons exec David Clanachan is CanPL’s first-ever commissioner 10 Jan 2018 The cream has risen to the top. The icing has been spread on the doughnut.
Fath was at last week’s CanPL meetings, but warns not to expect a quick resurrection of FC Edmonton 12 Dec 2017 Fath said his presence at the most recent round of CanPL talks was of an “exploratory” nature.
FCE’s move to cease operations is a bad sign for CanPL, Edmonton World Cup boosters 25 Nov 2017 The Edmonton Economic Development Corporation can do all the promotions it wants, but it’s hard to tell anyone that you can be a soccer city, worth hosting national-team competition, when you can’t sell 4,000 not-expensive tickets to see a pro soccer team. It will be much harder to sell Edmonton to the World Cup Bid Committee and FIFA with a straight face, now.
“What a CanPL will mean for us”: Canadian players speak up 14 Sep 2017 The 11 is reaching out to Canadian players, simply asking them for their thoughts about what a CanPL would mean to them.
Large number of players, agents already making inquiries about CanPL 1 Aug 2017 He said there has been “tons of interest.” Word of the Canadian Premier League is not only spreading in this country, but in other parts of the world. That’s fairly impressive for a league that, as Beirne admitted in Saskatchewan, “hasn’t been announced yet”