Why Canada needs its own league: A perspective from a soccer parent 15 Mar 2018 The CanPL will debut in 2019. This letter offers some insight to why the Canadian Premier League will be so important to soccer families in this country.
FCE to CanPL? It will require “the greatest comeback story in the history of Edmonton sport.” 21 Feb 2018 If FC Edmonton, which left NASL at the end of the 2017 season, is to field a pro team in the Canadian Premier League in 2019, the club needs its fans to rally. It needs a massive ground game to sell season-ticket commitments. And, maybe, if the team is to survive, Wednesday’s night’s meeting of soccer supporters will be remembered as the Alberta Capital’s very own Tennis Court Oath, soccer style.
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.
MLS Cup in ’17 will be one last hurrah ahead of a harsh 2018 for Canadian club soccer 7 Dec 2017 The truth is, 2018 will be a low point for men’s soccer in Canada. Boy, is it going to suck. It will be ultimate in lame-duck years. Canadian jobs will dwindle. We’ll have fewer teams to support. And even in TFC beats Seattle 10-0 on Saturday, that’s not going to change a thing.
Miller, FC Edmonton part ways on “great terms” 4 Dec 2017 On Monday, FC Edmonton, which has already announced it had discontinued its professional operations, announced that Miller’s contract as the team’s head coach was no longer, and that goalkeeping coach Darren Woloshen’s time at the club was also done.
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.
Fath: FC Edmonton will not return in any league unless Edmonton proves soccer can be sustainable 24 Nov 2017 “As for the Canadian Premier League, I love the idea, I think it’s important for Canada. But what we require is it to be sustainable. We need to be sustainable. Whatever we do, it won’t be USL. And the NASL is not sustainable in Edmonton.”
With the club’s path unclear, FC Edmonton begins releasing players 16 Nov 2017 The group of FC Edmonton players had their contracts expire on November 15. And with the team in limbo at the moment, it’s really no surprise that the team is now making the news of these players’ departures official.
FC Edmonton owner Fath hopeful NASL can still salvage Div-2 status after U.S. court defeat 4 Nov 2017 “I was very disappointed in the initial decision to not sanction NASL as a Division-2 league, because it should be,” Fath said Saturday. “And now I am very disappointed that the injunction didn’t go through. Now, the league will look at options, we’ll be looking at the next steps.”
FCE finishes disappointing season by losing fall-season clincher to Miami FC 28 Oct 2017 If Saturday’s game in Miami will indeed go down as FC Edmonton’s final NASL match, or, gulp, last contest ever no matter the league, it was at least nice to see that the club’s all-time leading scorer added to his tally. Daryl Fordyce roofed a penalty kick in the 56th minute after he was brought down in the penalty area …
