National soccer championships for U15 club teams in Newton this week<\/p>\n
Published 1:48 pm Sunday, October 11, 2026<\/p>\n
Some of Canada\u2019s top U15 club soccer teams are in Surrey this week for a pair of national championship tournaments.<\/p>\n
Twenty-four teams \u2014 12 in the boys division, 12 in girls \u2014 play at Newton Athletic Park. Games began Wednesday (Oct. 7) and continue until Thanksgiving Monday with championship finals \u2014 boys teams at 10 a.m., girls at 12:30 p.m., both on field #1 at the park on 128 Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis age group, it\u2019s the first national championship year so this is a new experience for a lot of these players,\u201d said Sarb Lidder, executive director of Surrey FC, national tournament host for a third time. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor all provinces it\u2019s their top-tier team here except for Alberta, B.C., Quebec and Ontario. For those it\u2019s their second-tier teams because their first-tier teams play in the PDP championships (player-development program) held in August, a different level.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a Surrey FC home team on the boys side and also Okanagan FC representing B.C., and on the girls side, it\u2019s Langley United and North Shore girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Games are streamed on Canada Soccer\u2019s Youtube channel<\/a>, schedules posted on canadasoccer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Adult and U17 national soccer championships are held in different Canadian cities this week.<\/p>\n \u201cSurrey is getting to be known as a great host,\u201d Lidder raved. \u201cThe facilities are world-class. We watch these U15s (players), the coaches and parents coming in (at Newton Athletic Park) and they\u2019re just amazed at all the services that are available at one place.<\/p>\n \u201cOur soccer club,\u201d Lidder added, \u201cwe\u2019ve got such a great staff, great volunteers and they are really good at putting a lot of effort into these tournaments. We\u2019re well recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n Sixteen of the provincial rep teams are staying at Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, four at the new Homewood Suites Surrey on King George Boulevard near the hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause these kids are U15, their parents are with them, their families, because they don\u2019t travel alone,\u201d Lidder noted. \u201cThe restaurants are crowded and at hotels in Surrey there\u2019s pretty well no vacancy this weekend. It\u2019s tough to get a hotel room.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, \u201cwe hosted a banquet for all the players and the officials, this first time we\u2019ve done that, so we had 600 players and officials, at the Grand Empire in Surrey. It was a great event, we had Jeevan Badwal from the Whitecaps as a guest speaker. We showcased Surrey, we had some entertainers and a great meal, the players loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National soccer championships for U15 club teams in Newton this week Published 1:48 pm Sunday, October 11, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-930268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930268","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=930268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}