The Northern Super League\u2019s inaugural final will be played at Toronto\u2019s BMO Field on Nov. 15, the league announced Friday at halftime of a match between Montreal Roses FC and AFC Toronto.<\/p>\n
The long-awaited Canadian women\u2019s professional soccer league kicked off a 25-game regular season in April with six founding franchises: Montreal, Toronto, Calgary Wild FC, Halifax Tides FC, Ottawa Rapid FC and Vancouver Rise FC.<\/p>\n
The regular season\u2019s top four teams advance to a home-and-away semifinal series. The two clubs with the highest aggregate scores advance to the championship.<\/p>\n
Toronto hosted Montreal in its first fixture on April 19 at BMO Field, the 30,000-capacity home of Major League Soccer\u2019s Toronto FC and the CFL\u2019s Toronto Argonauts. The club has otherwise played its regular-season matches at York Lions Stadium.<\/p>\n
BMO Field will also host six games at next summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n
Before Friday\u2019s action, Toronto (8-3-1) topped the NSL standings with 25 points, seven more than second-place Montreal (5-3-3) with one additional game played.<\/p>\n
Ottawa (4-4-2) and Calgary (4-5-2) rounded out the top four with 14 points apiece, while Vancouver (3-5-3) and Halifax (3-7-1) ranked fifth and sixth, respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment is for the players, coaches and clubs who have given everything to build this league from the ground up \u2014 the long days, the early mornings, and the sacrifices they\u2019ve made, all with one goal in mind: to win the NSL Final,\u201d NSL founder and chief growth officer Diana Matheson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Final is our chance to celebrate everything they\u2019ve accomplished and to show the world what our athletes are truly capable of. It will be a historic moment \u2014 but also the start of something even bigger. We can\u2019t wait to share it with Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Super League\u2019s inaugural final will be played at Toronto\u2019s BMO Field on Nov. 15, the league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906","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=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}