{"id":826232,"date":"2026-07-26T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826232\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:51:18","slug":"kamloops-international-cup-begins-saturday-as-wildfire-smoke-leads-to-altered-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826232\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamloops International Cup begins Saturday as wildfire smoke leads to altered schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/059ea187-bf4d-47ba-aeb6-5e83195125df-1.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest fans supporting the club&#8217;s U-21 men\u2019s team at the 2025 Kamloops International Cup. (Image Credit: Facebook\/Kamloops International Cup)<\/p>\n<p>By Marty Hastings<\/p>\n<p>Schedule Changes<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 25, 2026 | 11:15 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 Kamloops International Cup women\u2019s soccer action is slated to begin this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Top-flight English professional team Nottingham Forest will square off against Vancouver Rise FC Academy, with kickoff slated for 6:00 p.m. Saturday (July 25) at Hillside Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamloopsinternationalcup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The tournament schedule<\/a> has been altered due to wildfires burning in the province, with Cavalry FC II of Calgary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamloopsinternationalcup.com\/post\/cavalry-fc-2-unable-to-attend-2026-kamloops-international-cup-due-to-wildfire-conditions?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn7lTqMEObF4kwVshbb0136t3X_QWNrwFd2gpBX3RZKg8uK1l6xAObhck8iv8_aem_9AtVgqk9C9cb9msjlaYKzA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">no longer participating<\/a>. All matches and youth camps  involving Cavalry FC II have been cancelled, and refunds will be offered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are disappointed that we will not be able to welcome Cavalry FC II to Kamloops this year, the safety and well-being of players, staff, participants, and our community must remain the priority,\u201d Tournament Director Lyle Dos Santos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest fans supporting the club&#8217;s U-21 men\u2019s team at the 2025 Kamloops International Cup. (Image Credit: Facebook\/Kamloops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-826232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826232","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=826232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}