{"id":263757,"date":"2025-11-05T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263757\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:12:07","slug":"university-womens-soccer-championship-comes-to-hamilton-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263757\/","title":{"rendered":"University women\u2019s soccer championship comes to Hamilton this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need a new sports championship to quell your World Series withdrawal?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McMaster University in Hamilton will host top university teams for the 2025 U Sports Women\u2019s Soccer Championship this week.<\/p>\n<p>The games, which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/sports\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broadcast by CBC Sports<\/a>, start Thursday and go to Sunday, with the championship game being played 5 p.m. that day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the McMaster Marauders website, eight teams will compete for the Gladys Bean Memorial Trophy. They are seeded as follows:<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia (UBC)\u00a0University of Montr\u00e9al\u00a0University of Toronto\u00a0Cape Breton UniversityLaval UniversityTrinity Western UniversityMcMaster UniversityUniversity of GuelphUniversity of British Columbia team competing for third-straight title<\/p>\n<p>The UBC Thunderbirds are competing for a third straight national title and have only surrendered one goal all season, McMaster said in a news release Sunday. A victory would make them \u201cthe first program in modern U Sports women\u2019s soccer history to three-peat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The McMaster Marauders are making their first national championship appearance since 2018, when they finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Games will be viewable on <a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC.ca\/sports<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBCSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC Sports YouTube<\/a> and CBC Gem app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teams will compete in Ron Joyce Stadium. Tickets range from $5 to $25 depending on the day and ticket type.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Quarterfinal 1 starts Thursday at 11 a.m.:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762362727_865_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">U SPORTS Women&#8217;s Soccer Championship : Quarterfinal # 1 &#8211; #5 Laval vs #4 Cape Breton<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Universit\u00e9 Laval Rouge et Or (5) and the Cape Breton University Capers (4) go head-to-head in this quarterfinal matchup in the U Sports Women&#8217;s Soccer Championship from McMaster University&#8217;s Ron Joyce Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario.Tournament schedule<\/p>\n<p>Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>11:00 a.m. &#8211; Quarterfinal between Laval and Cape Breton1:30 p.m. &#8211; Quarterfinal between Guelph and UBC5:00 p.m. &#8211; Quarterfinal between Trinity Western and Toronto7:30 p.m. &#8211; Quarterfinal between Montr\u00e9al and McMaster\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<p>11:00 a.m. &#8211; Consolation Semifinal\u00a01:30 p.m. Consolation Semifinal5:00 p.m. &#8211; Semifinal7:30 p.m. &#8211; Semifinal<\/p>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<p>5:00 p.m. &#8211; Consolation Final\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>1:30 p.m. &#8211; Bronze medal match5:00 p.m. &#8211; Gold medal match<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need a new sports championship to quell your World Series withdrawal?\u00a0 McMaster University in Hamilton will host top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-263757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}