{"id":911877,"date":"2026-09-27T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:20:15","slug":"canada-u20-challenger-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911877\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada U20 &#8211; Challenger Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tCanada U20 Team Heading to Chile: 30 Man Roster Named \u2013 First Match Friday vs Namibia<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s first match in the U20 Challenger Cup will be Friday against Namibia. The tournament is being held in Santiago, Chile. Currently the team are assembled in Toronto, and will fly out Tuesday, not giving them much prep time once they arrive in Chile. The tournament schedule is posted below. We\u2019ll provide updates on live streaming when it\u2019s made available. You can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/canada_u20mens15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">their Instagram account<\/a> for updates as well.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling Squad<\/p>\n<p>Position<br \/>\nName<br \/>\nClub<\/p>\n<p>Prop<br \/>\nBen Koolen<br \/>\nGloucester Rugby Academy<\/p>\n<p>Prop<br \/>\nColin Mitchell<br \/>\nCapilano<\/p>\n<p>Prop<br \/>\nJacob Blackwood<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Prop<br \/>\nEthan Samuels<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Prop<br \/>\nEric Rutledge<br \/>\nPride \/ JBAA<\/p>\n<p>Hooker<br \/>\nAlistair Yeomans<br \/>\nUniversity of Guelph\/Mississauga Blues<\/p>\n<p>Hooker<br \/>\nJosh du Toit<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Hooker<br \/>\nPorter Gook<br \/>\nPride \/ Westshore<\/p>\n<p>Lock<br \/>\nSeb Poyser<br \/>\nNottingham<\/p>\n<p>Lock<br \/>\nNoah Poyser<br \/>\nBishop Stortford<\/p>\n<p>Lock<br \/>\nRonin Smith<br \/>\nUVIC<\/p>\n<p>Lock<br \/>\nCole Thompson<br \/>\nBabson College<\/p>\n<p>Lock<br \/>\nCarter Nickless<br \/>\nSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue<\/p>\n<p>Back Row<br \/>\nCoen Quinn<br \/>\nQueen\u2019s University\/Bytown Blues RFC<\/p>\n<p>Back Row<br \/>\nEliot Marschall<br \/>\nNottingham<\/p>\n<p>Back Row<br \/>\nLiam Kinghorn<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Back Row<br \/>\nJJ Kinnear<br \/>\nWimbledon RFC<\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf<br \/>\nChris Rose<br \/>\nPride \/ Westshore<\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf<br \/>\nRogan Moir<br \/>\nPride<\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf<br \/>\nBrek Ball<br \/>\nUniversity of Western Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf<br \/>\nJoe Kaufmann<br \/>\nRacing 92<\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf<br \/>\nJonty Nicholas<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Center<br \/>\nKoen Schroeder<br \/>\nBurlington Centaurs<\/p>\n<p>Center<br \/>\nAdam Stander<br \/>\nQueens University\/Oakville Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p>Center<br \/>\nLiam Turnbull<br \/>\nUBC<\/p>\n<p>Wing<br \/>\nMalin Hazl<br \/>\nGuelph Goats RFC<\/p>\n<p>Wing<br \/>\nBriar Barron<br \/>\nQueens University<\/p>\n<p>Wing<br \/>\nNoah Hudson<br \/>\nPride<\/p>\n<p>Full Back<br \/>\nCooper Allen<br \/>\nGeorgian Bay Titans<\/p>\n<p>Full Back<br \/>\nLuke Prest<br \/>\nPride<\/p>\n<p>Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Pool A:<br \/>Chile, Hong Kong China, Brazil, Romania<br \/>Pool B:<br \/>Canada, Namibia, Belgium, Portugal<\/p>\n<p>2nd October: CHILE TIME<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fRomania vs Brazil 10:00am<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fNamibia vs Canada 1:00pm \/ 9am PT<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fBelgium vs Portugal 4:00pm<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fHong Kong China U20 vs Chile 7:00pm<\/p>\n<p>7th October:<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fNamibia vs Portugal 10:00am<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fHong Kong China U20 vs Brazil 1:00pm<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fBelgium vs Canada 4:00pm \/ 12pm PT<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fChile vs Romania 7:00pm<\/p>\n<p>12th October:<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fHong Kong China U20 vs Romania 10:00am<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fCanada vs Portugal 1:00pm \/ 9am PT<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fBelgium vs Namibia 4:00pm<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fChile vs Brazil 7:00pm<\/p>\n<p>17th October:<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fFinal Placement Matches<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada U20 Team Heading to Chile: 30 Man Roster Named \u2013 First Match Friday vs Namibia Canada\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-911877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911877","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=911877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}