Toronto, ON — July 18, 2022 — Tickets for the inaugural edition of the League1 Canada Women’s Inter-Provincial Championship go on sale here on Monday, starting at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
Tickets will be sold at $10 a day and include two games. A weekend package is available for $15, which grants entry for all four matches. Children under 12 years old will be admitted free alongside ticket purchasers, with identification.
This year’s four-team women’s tournament, recently announced by Canadian Soccer Business, will be played from Aug. 12 to 14, 2022 at Le Complex Sportive Bois-de Boulogne in Laval, Quebec. It will include one team representing League1 BC, the winner of League1 Ontario’s Women’s Championship and the champion of PLSQ. PLSQ’s league runner-up will round out the field, as event host.
PLSQ’s champions will meet the League1 BC representative in one semi-final round matchup, while PLSQ’s runner-up will take on League1 Ontario’s champion in the other. The semi-final matches will kick off at 4 p.m. ET and 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 12.
A match to decide the third-place finisher will get underway on Sunday, Aug. 14 at 11 a.m. ET, with the Championship Final slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. ET.
All matches in the championship will air exclusively on OneSoccer, the home of Canadian soccer, available as a linear channel through Telus Optik TV (Ch. 980 in the More Sports pack) as well as via the fuboTV Canada platform, at OneSoccer.ca and on the OneSoccer app.
League1 Canada would like to thank the city of Laval, Tourism Laval and Sports Laval for the financial backing as part of Laval SportCité’s event support program.
About League1 Canada
League1 Canada is national alliance of Canada’s existing provincial Division 3 Pro-Am men’s and women’s soccer leagues: League1 BC, League1 Ontario and Première ligue de soccer du Québec (PLSQ). Established in March 2022, League1 Canada aims to achieve meaningful alignment of Canada’s three provincial Pro-Am leagues. It connects with provincial soccer associations that sanction and support the operation of those leagues, as well as with the Canadian Premier League, and a wide range of other stakeholders within Canadian soccer.
About League1 BC
League1 BC is an adult, open-age Pro-Am Soccer League operated by BC Soccer. Established in 2021, the league bridges the gap between youth and professional soccer, targeting the “Training to Compete” stage within Long-term Player Development (LTPD). The league will engage communities across British Columbia providing standard-based competition and training environments for female and male players, coaches, and match officials. League1 BC serves as a key platform for advancement to further opportunities within the game.
About League1 Ontario
League1 Ontario is the province’s Pro-Am, standards-based, senior league. Founded by Ontario Soccer in 2014, L1O has expanded from a 10 to 22-team men’s division, and now boasts a 20-team women’s division. It serves as a stepping stone between the high performance youth level and elite amateur and professional levels of the game. Owned and managed by Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) and sanctioned by FIFA through the domestic bodies of Canada Soccer and Ontario Soccer, L1O’s primary focus is the showcase and development of Canada’s future stars.
About Première ligue de soccer du Québec
The Première ligue de soccer du Québec is a semi-professional soccer league created in 2012 under the aegis of Soccer Québec. Affiliated with Canada Soccer, this is the highest division of soccer in Québec and is recognized as a Division 3 league in Canada.
About OneSoccer
OneSoccer, the dedicated soccer channel launched by Mediapro Canada in 2019, is the home of Canadian soccer, as the exclusive broadcaster of the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Championship, Canada Soccer’s Men’s and Women’s National Team’s home friendliest and Concacaf national team and club tournaments through to 2023. It is available for streaming through the OneSoccer website and with the OneSoccer app. It is also carried as a linear channel on Telus Optik TV (Ch.980), one of Canada’s ‘big three’
telecoms companies, as well as on streaming service fuboTV Canada. Visit OneSoccer, the hub of all things Canadian soccer.
About Canadian Soccer Business
Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) represents a suite of top-tier national assets that are core to the sport of soccer in Canada. This includes representation for all corporate partnerships and media rights (broadcast and distribution) related to Canada Soccer’s core assets including the Qatar 2022-bound men’s national team, the Olympic champion women’s national team, the Canadian Championship, the country’s highest domestic club competition and League1 Canada, along with all rights associated with the Canadian Premier League, Canada’s tier 1 men’s domestic professional league playing in the global FIFA series of competitions.