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Six things to know about Canada Soccer’s 2023 Toyota National Championships from 4-9 October.
Canada Soccer’s Toyota National Championships serves as the nation’s premier amateur competition and provides a meaningful soccer experience for participating teams and their players, coaches, support staff, as well as for officials and volunteers. Across three age categories, the 2023 final competitions take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia (adult), Moncton, New Brunswick (U-17 Cup) and Waterloo, Ontario (U-15 Cup) with matches played from 4 October through Teck Finals Day Monday 9 October. The competing teams represent Canada’s provincial/territorial members and are, for the most part, regional champions from their 2023 (or 2022-23) seasons. Canada Soccer’s partners for the event are Toyota, Teck, CIBC, Visa, GoGoSqueez, Access Storage, Gatorade and the Government of Canada.
Fans from across Canada (and mind you, from all around the world) can watch the Toyota National Championships for free through Canada Soccer’s YouTube page CanadaSoccerTV. In all, 125 matches will be broadcast from the three venues across the week, including all 12 medal matches on Teck Finals Day Monday (gold/silver and bronze medal matches in each competition). Fans can also follow the Toyota National Championship through Canada Soccer’s digital channels on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter featuring the hashtag #ToyotaNatChamps or by visiting the competition website athttps://canadasoccer.com/events/toyota-national-championships/.
Six national champions are crowned on Teck Finals Day, the last day of the Toyota National Championships. All 64 teams are in action on the last day with national rankings established in each competitive category. In Halifax, the amateur men’s champions lift the Challenge Trophy while the women’s champions lift the Jubilee Trophy. Last year’s Challenge Trophy winners Ottawa Gloucester Celtic FC were eliminated this year at the provincial level, but the Jubilee Trophy winners Holy Cross FC from St. John’s, Newfoundland Labrador are in Halifax to defend their 2022 title.
This marks the first year that Canada Soccer have assigned an equal number of male and female referees across the Toyota National Championships. Canada Soccer have assigned 36 referees for the three competitions and they work alongside local referees to help fill out the full schedule of 150 matches across six days (50 matches per venue).
Canada Soccer offers an exciting array of Toyota National Championships merchandise on sale across all three venues. NorthWest Design is Canada Soccer’s on-site merchandiser and they provide a full service including team customisation at venue.
Last year, Holy Cross FC from St. John’s became the first Newfoundland Labrador women’s team to win Canada Soccer’s National Championships, which means that six different provinces have now captured the Jubilee Trophy since 1982. On the men’s side, all 10 provinces have captured the Challenge Trophy since 1962 when the competition reverted to an all amateur competition. Canada Soccer’s National Championships are one of the oldest sporting competitions in Canada, having been inaugurated in 1912-13 as part of the creation of the Dominion of Canada Football Association. The competition’s original trophy was the Connaught Cup and it was replaced by the Challenge Trophy in 1926 while the women’s Jubilee Trophy was introduced in 1982. The men’s Canadian Championship for professional and semi-professional teams was introduced in 2008 and its winner captures the Voyageurs Cup and qualifies for Concacaf Champions League.
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