CPL opener now set for April 15 at Starlight Stadium
No sport travels quite like soccer, with banks of visiting-team supporters a staple of games in the U.K. and Europe. That has been hard to replicate in North America due to the far greater distances between cities in Major League Soccer and the Canadian Premier League.
The PFC-VFC game would have originally kicked off the CPL season as a standalone on April 14. It will now be the third game of an opening-day triple-header April 15 following earlier kick-offs that day between the HFX Wanderers of Halifax and Atletico Ottawa at TD Place Stadium in the nation’s capital and between visiting Cavalry FC of Calgary against defending-champion Forge FC at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ont.
It will kick-start an Island-heavy beginning to the PFC season, which sees the Tridents open with three consecutive home games at Starlight Stadium, continuing April 23 against Cavalry FC and April 30 versus Forge FC. In total, four of PFC’s first five games and nine of its first 13 are scheduled for Starlight Stadium. That includes a league co-leading span of four consecutive home dates from June 18 to July 8.
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