Canadian Premier League season to start in Winnipeg
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This article was published 05/06/2021 (1584 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Free Press has confirmed the Canadian Premier League will start the 2021 soccer season in a bubble in Winnipeg.
The league will make an official announcement today.
All eight teams will arrive in Winnipeg in the third week of June. The clubs will spend four weeks in the Manitoba capital and will play eight games each. All games will be played at IG Field with no current plans for fans to be in the stands. After the four weeks, teams are expected to return to their home markets to play the remainder of their 28-game regular-season schedules.
Similar to what the league did last year in Charlottetown, P.E.I. for The Island Games — a single site tournament that replaced the 2020 season owing to the pandemic — teams will have no interactions with the community. They will quarantine before arriving in Winnipeg and once they arrive, players and staff will be based out of a hotel and only have access to the stadium and practice field with testing protocols in place.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are aiming to start training camp in mid-July. With the other type of football in town, the Blue and Gold will likely have to start their camp at the University of Manitoba Bisons practice field.
According to an independent third party hired by the P.E.I. government, the total economic impact of hosting the 2020 CPL bubble for the maritime province was $11.75 million.
taylor.allen@freepress.mb.ca
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Taylor Allen is a sports reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. Taylor was the Vince Leah intern in the Free Press newsroom twice while earning his joint communications degree/diploma at the University of Winnipeg and Red River College Polytechnic. He signed on full-time in 2019 and mainly covers the Blue Bombers, curling, and basketball. Read more about Taylor.
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Taylor Allen is a sports reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. Taylor was the Vince Leah intern in the Free Press newsroom twice while earning his joint communications degree/diploma at the University of Winnipeg and Red River College Polytechnic. He signed on full-time in 2019 and mainly covers the Blue Bombers, curling, and basketball. Read more about Taylor.
Every piece of reporting Taylor produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
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Updated on Saturday, June 5, 2021 9:48 AM CDT: Amends headline.