{"id":8628,"date":"2022-12-09T05:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2022-12-16T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:20:58","slug":"womens-canadian-premier-league-looks-to-launch-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/womens-canadian-premier-league-looks-to-launch-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Canadian Premier League Looks To Launch In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/canadian-premier-league.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Premier League\" class=\"wp-image-8629\" width=\"285\" height=\"188\" title=\"Women's Canadian Premier League Looks To Launch In 2025\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canadian Premier League promoting women\u2019s soccer to launch in 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canada Soccer backs CPL and says it will promote soccer in Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Air Canada and CIBC are founding partners for the proposed Canadian Premier League<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian men\u2019s football team did not win any games at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/betting-opportunities\/fifa-world-cup-2022-preview\">2022 FIFA World Cup<\/a> and exited after the group stage. However, they did enough to win the support of football fans in Canada and spark a renewed interested in soccer throughout the country especially ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/canada-soccer-must-starting-preparing-for-the-2026-fifa-world-cup\">co-hosting the FIFA 2023 World Cup<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canada Soccer<\/strong>, the governing body for soccer in Canada were under pressure to do more to promote soccer in Canada. Canada Soccer has now endorsed a proposed Canadian Premier League that will look to promote women\u2019s soccer in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"canadian-premier-league\"><strong>Canadian Premier League<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/canpl.ca\">Canadian Premier League<\/a> (CPL) is a proposed domestic franchise soccer tournament that is set to launch in 2025. The CPL\u2019s founding partners are big guns as <strong>Air Canada<\/strong> and <strong>CIBC<\/strong> have backed the league which is set to have 8 franchises. Two of those franchises have already been named as <em>Calgary Foothills<\/em> and <em>Vancouver Whitecaps<\/em> have got approval. The remaining six franchises will be named in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of the CPL was initially floated by <strong>Diana Matheson<\/strong>, an ex-national player for the women\u2019s team. Matheson along with <strong>Thomas Gilbert<\/strong>, her business partner said it was the right time to launch a professional women\u2019s soccer league in Canada. They released the initial set of plans for the CPL under a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project8.ca\">Project 8 Sports Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A professional women&#039;s soccer league is coming to Canada\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m5HVLKNzIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Project 8 released a statement and said that the 8 CPL franchises will be led by ex-national players. They are also roping in ex-national players to take on key leadership roles in the CPL. <strong>Stephanie Labb\u00e9<\/strong> has been roped in to be the GM for the Vancouver Whitecaps and will also be involved in the development and planning departments while <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong> is serving as a CPL advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"canada-soccer-backs-cpl\"><strong>Canada Soccer Backs CPL<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Soccer released a statement and threw their full support behind the proposed CPL stating that the organization was ready to back any organization that looked to further advance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/soccer\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> in the country as it is a key part of the strategic plan that Canada Soccer is looking to implement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Nick Bontis<\/strong>, president for Canada Soccer said one of his priorities was to launch a women\u2019s soccer professional league before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary The Canadian men\u2019s football team did not win any games at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and exited after the group stage. 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