A new professional women’s soccer league is coming to Canada.
The Calgary Foothills Soccer Club announced Monday that it will be home to one of two foundation teams when the eight-team league begins in 2025.
The other foundation team belongs to the Vancouver Whitecaps. Homes for the six other teams are expected to be named in 2023.
The league will operate nationwide across two conferences, with four teams in each conference.
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Diana Matheson, a former member of the Canadian women’s national soccer team, and her business partner Thomas Gilbert are launching the league under the banner of Project 8 Sports Inc.
The Whitecaps say in a release that the league will be led “primarily by former national team players,” with gold medalists Christine Sinclair and Stephanie Labbe “contributing to the planning and development of the league.”
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“The creation of this league is something we have championed for many years and to be a part of seeing it come to fruition is truly exciting,” Labbe, the Whitecaps’ general manager of women’s football, said in a statement said. “We look forward to working with stakeholders across the Canadian soccer environment to make this league successful.”
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