{"id":595296,"date":"2026-04-10T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:21:08","slug":"cf-montreal-hosts-its-home-opener-this-saturday-against-the-philadelphia-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595296\/","title":{"rendered":"CF Montr\u00e9al hosts its home opener this Saturday against the Philadelphia Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013\u00a0Following six straight road games to start the season, CF Montr\u00e9al will host the Philadelphia Union for its home opener this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. EDT (Apple TV, RDS2, TSN, TSN 690).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Marco Donadel\u2019s squad returns to Montreal looking for its second win of the season. Since joining Major League Soccer in 2012, the Montrealers have a total record of 8-3-3 in home openers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Union head north of the border, having yet to secure a point in MLS this season. The Union\u2019s last victory, in all competitions was a 7-0 victory over Jamaica\u2019s Defense Force FC in Concacaf Champions Cup play. Head coach Bradley Carnell\u2019s side fell 2-1 at home to Chicago Fire FC last Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Bleu-blanc-noir\u00a0will look to capture its 100th MLS regular season win at Stade Saputo. Since 2012, the Club holds a 99-65-37 record in the heart of Hochelaga and scored 328 goals in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montreal bolstered its squad over the past week after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.cfmontreal.com\/news\/cf-montreal-acquires-frankie-amaya-on-loan-from-deportivo-toluca-fc\" title=\"https:\/\/en.cfmontreal.com\/news\/cf-montreal-acquires-frankie-amaya-on-loan-from-deportivo-toluca-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Amaya\u2019s loan from Liga MX side Deportivo Toluca was officialized<\/a> on April 2. The American midfielder joined Montreal in a transfer deadline day loan deal until the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>You can explore everything happening at Stade Saputo by checking out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.cfmontreal.com\/stadium\/activity_guide_gameday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our full activity guide here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013\u00a0Following six straight road games to start the season, CF Montr\u00e9al will host the Philadelphia Union for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,205455,2338],"class_list":["post-595296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cfmtl-media","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595296","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=595296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}