Winnipeg CPL named for famed trio of Victoria Cross medal winners Matthew Gourlie Winnipeg has a rich soccer history. The Manitoba capital also has a distinguished military history. Wednesday those two storied pasts came together when Valour FC was launched in Winnipeg as the newest member of the Canadian Premier League. Valour FC joins the…
HFX Wanderers FC unveiled in Halifax Matthew Gourlie The Canadian Premier League is trying to learn from the mistakes of those that came before them to create a league that endures. In an interesting twist of fate, a pair of small setbacks helped align the stars to get Derek Martin and Sports & Entertainment Atlantic…
Calgary’s CPL team to call equestrian complex home starting in 2019 Matthew Gourlie Tommy Wheeldon Jr. came to Calgary to play professional soccer. Sixteen years later Wheeldon helped bring professional soccer back to his adopted home. Wheeldon will be the general manager and head coach of Cavalry Football Club when they take the pitch in…
Brennan & Co. hoping to help future generations of local soccer talent with CPL club By Matthew Gourlie Jim Brennan has been a Canadian soccer pioneer before. In 2007 he returned home from English football to be the first singing for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer. Now, Brennan is helping bring soccer home on…
By Matthew Gourlie With the York9 FC launch set for Thursday, let’s conclude our three part discussion of branding for the Canadian Premier League by focusing on kits. The difficulty when evaluating kits is that so much of their appeal is subjective. The quality of a logo in particular, or even a name, feels much more…
Path clear for Calgary, Halifax, Port City and York to join the Canadian Premier League By Matthew Gourlie The inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League continues to take shape after four more franchises were approved for professional club membership at the Canadian Soccer Association’s annual general meeting in Yellowknife Saturday. The CSA has now…
Canadian Premier League unveils logo and manifesto By Matthew Gourlie Supporters across the country got up early or stayed up late watching a clock tick down with anticipation of a child on Christmas morning. When the clock struck zero, the Canadian Premier League unveiled its logo, a manifesto and a promotional video. The Canadian soccer…
By Matthew Gourlie The Canadian Premier League web site has launched a countdown clock for a Friday morning announcement. The CPL trademarked a series of possible team names on April 5. After discussing logos in the first part of this three-part series on branding, that seemed like a natural place to go next. When it…
By Matthew Gourlie In the past couple of months, Leeds United unveiled one of the most universally mocked badges in history, Major League Soccer’s change kits have largely gone monochrome and Roy Nasrallah and his Canadian Premier League team crossed the country to tour prospective markets and some possible franchise names hit the internet. So,…
By Mathew Gourlie The growth of Major League Soccer to the modern era — the so-called MLS 2.0 — can be traced to one moment. It’s not the David Beckham signing or the first soccer-specific stadium. It’s not expansion to Toronto or Cascadia. No, MLS began the road to financial stability and coming of age…
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