VIDEO: Vancouver FC out of playoffs after loss in Calgary<\/p>\n
Published 4:40 pm Sunday, October 25, 2026<\/p>\n
After 14 weeks hanging on to the fourth playoff spot, Vancouver FC lost on Sunday, Oct. 25, the final day of the Canadian Premier League regular season, falling 1-0 to Cavalry in Calgary, while rival Supra Du Qu\u00e9bec claimed the fourth and final spot with a 4-3 win over Halifax Wanderers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the 29th minute a free-kick by Michael Baldisimo was tapped in by Ali Musse to give the hosts a 1-0 lead, and that was where the game finished.<\/p>\n
Going into the game, both Vancouver and Calgary had been predicting an intense match.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth teams are going for a win,\u201d Vancouver FC head coach Martin Nash observed.<\/p>\n
Vancouver FC goalkeeper Callum Irving said it was possible to beat Calgary, but it would be tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re willing to do the dirty work, you\u2019re willing to scrap and work hard, I think you can be in a game, and that\u2019s the bare minimum of what you need if you want to win against a team with their quality,\u201d Irving said. <\/p>\n
Cavalry FC defender Daan Klomp noted Calgary had a good record against Vancouver.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo last time it was a big commotion about Vancouver beating us for the first time. I mean, it was a one-off, and now it\u2019s showing them again who we are.\u201d <\/p>\n
It was a physical, aggressive game, that began with a heavy tackle from Vancouver\u2019s Isak Ssewankambo just 12 seconds into the match, and wrapped up with the Eagles\u2019 Marcello Polisi sent off for a challenge on Cavalry defender Levi Laing late in the match.<\/p>\n
As a result of their wins Sunday, Supra becomes the first expansion team in league history to qualify for the playoffs, while the Cavalry lifted the 2026 CPL Shield on home field and qualified them for the 2027 Concacaf Champions Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Vancouver FC out of playoffs after loss in Calgary Published 4:40 pm Sunday, October 25, 2026 After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,163792],"class_list":["post-946378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946378","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=946378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}