Canadian Soccer Association

Canadian Soccer Association Association canadienne de soccer

founding	May 24, 1912
FIFA accession	1912
CONCACAF accession	1961
president	Victor Montagliani
National teams	Men's national team U-23 , U-20 , U-18 , U-17 , U-15 women's national team
Homepage	www.canadasoccer.com

The Canadian Soccer Association (Canada Soccer) (French: Association canadienne de soccer ) is the Canadian football association .

He organizes the games of the women's and men's national teams and the youth national teams of Canada . Within Canada, the CSA oversees the amateur and youth sector, as well as the national professional and amateur leagues.

history

Before founding

One of the first football games took place in Toronto in 1859 between the St. George's Society and a team of Irish emigrants. Other games were played in New Westminster in 1862 and in Victoria, British Columbia in 1865 . The first game played under modern football rules was in Toronto in 1876, after the Dominion Football Association was founded. This association was also the first football association to be founded outside of Great Britain .

In 1880 the Western Football Association was founded in Berlin (today: Kitchener, Ontario ). This made the sport more and more popular, especially in southern Ontario. The first soccer teams were founded around 1900.

In 1885 and 1886 there were games for the first time between teams from the Western Football Association and the American Football Association, the unofficial federation of the United States .

In the following years other local football associations were founded, for example the Manitoba Football Association was founded in 1896 and the Ontario Football Association in 1901. The Galt Football Club was sent to represent the Western Football Association and Canada for the 1904 Summer Olympics . The team was able to prevail against two school teams from the USA and win the gold medal.

In 1905 the Saskatchewan Football Association was founded. In 1911 the Province of Quebec Football Association and the Alberta Football Association followed.

founding

On May 24, 1912, the Dominion of Canada Football Association was founded in Toronto by representatives of the regional associations. On December 31, 1912, the association became a member of FIFA. In 1926 the first national league was founded, the Canadian National Soccer League. In it mostly teams from Ontario and Québec played .

On June 21, 1926, the DCFA left FIFA. They followed the British federation, which was in a dispute over the payment of amateur footballers with FIFA. It existed until 1997. Since 2006 there is the Canadian Soccer League , which is the national league of Canada. However, this is administered by the Ontario Soccer Association.

In 1957 the association rejoined FIFA. It was not until eleven years later that the Canadian national soccer team played their first official international match. It was played against Australia on June 7, 1924 and lost 3-2.

There are currently three Canadian clubs playing in the top North American football league Major League Soccer : Toronto FC (since 2007), Vancouver Whitecaps (since 2011) and Montreal Impact (since 2012). Two Canadian teams currently play in the second highest North American soccer league, the North American Soccer League , FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury .

In 2008 the Canadian Championship was created. Five Canadian teams, Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps, Montreal Impact, Ottawa Fury and FC Edmonton, play a starting place for the CONCACAF Champions League .

In March 2011, it was decided that Canada would host the women's soccer world championship in 2015 , which will then be held for the first time with 24 teams.

successes

The Canadian national team , provided by the CSA, has so far been able to express the following successes:

In 1958 she won qualifying for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden against the USA , but could not prevail against Mexico .
In 1984 Canada reached the quarter-finals of the Olympic soccer tournament against Brazil , but was eliminated from the eventual silver medalist on penalties.
In 1986 she qualified for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , but the only World Cup participation to date has been eliminated pointless and goalless.
In 1995 the Canadian women's national football team qualified for the 1995 Women's World Cup in Sweden
In 1998 the women's team won the 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship in their own country, in which the USA did not take part and thus qualify for the 1999 Women's World Cup in the USA .
In 2000 the Canadian national team surprisingly wins the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2000 in the USA against Colombia 2-0. The only way to survive the group stage was to toss a coin.
In 2002 Canada reached the semi-finals of the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup .
In 2003, the Canadian women's team finished fourth at the 2003 Women's World Cup in the United States .
In 2010 the women's team won the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup .

Individual evidence

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↑ dfb.de: Women's World Cup 2015 will take place in Canada

Web links

The Canadian Football Association website (English, French)

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[2] .de: Women's World Cup 2015 will take place in Canada