User:RedPatch/Canadian National League

Canadian National League
Organising body	Canadian Soccer Association
Country	Canada
Confederation	CONCACAF
Level on pyramid	2
Domestic cup(s)	Canadian Championship

The Canadian National League is a proposed semi-professional men's soccer league in Canada, to play as a Division II league in the Canadian soccer league system.

In the Canadian soccer league system, it would sit below the Canadian Premier League (CPL)

History

The league was began to have discussions in late 2019 from Canadian clubs sanctioned in the US who began discussions of forming a league amid discussions of potential sanctioning issues for Canadian teams in US-based leagues in the future.^[1] The Canadian National League is to be a league launched independently from the Canadian Premier League, are open to the idea of an affiliation or other form of partnership with the CPL, featuring teams primarily from Western and Central Canada, in regional divisions.^[1]

A women's league is also under consideration.^[1]

Current clubs

The following teams are members of the league for the 2022 season.

Team	City	Stadium	Joined
Current teams
FC Tigers Vancouver	Vancouver, British Columbia		2022
Okanagan FC	Kelowna, British Columbia		2022
Edmonton Scottish	Edmonton, Alberta	Grant MacEwan Park	2022
Edmonton City SC	Edmonton, Alberta		2022
Calgary Foothills FC	Calgary, Alberta		2022
Saskatchewan Selects	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	SMF Field	2022
FC Manitoba	Winnipeg, Manitoba	John Scouras Field	2022