Christine Sinclair who was the captain of Canada’s National women’s Soccer team and Diana Matheson, an icon from the team who are both now retired has just announced plans of starting a new Canadian women’s soccer league starting with 8 teams in 2025.
On Monday the two revealed their plans on CBC’s The National where they explained how the new league came to be.
Matheson and her business partners at Project 8 Sports have already begun paving the way for the league, having already secured two major Canadian brands, CIBC and Air Canada as sponsors. This is a big deal and looks promising for the start of this women’s soccer league.
So far the league is still without a name but both the Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Calgary Foothills Soccer Club have confirmed that they’ll be joining the league. Each team will have at least one member of the Canadian national team, and the league will aim to bring over 100 Canadian soccer players that’s overseas back to Canada in hopes that they can succeed at home.
Anyone who wants to be owners of the remains six teams will have to pay a franchise fee of $1 million and will also need to invest eight to ten million dollars to operate their respective clubs through the first five seasons. Project 8 Sports will own 20 per cent of the league while the eight teams will own the remaining 80 per cent.
