CONCACAF League expanded to include Canadian teams

[narduch]

Yesterday Forge booked their place. 

They will become the 4th Canadian club to play in a continental competition. 

[narduch]

Is it too early to ask about the TV situation for these games?

[Ansem]

 

 

[narduch]

Not sure why they changed that date. The start time blows.  

[Rintaran]

13 hours ago, narduch said:

Not sure why they changed that date. The start time blows.  

Don't know about the date, but the start time is better than the 8:00pm that it was originally.

Anyone know we can watch the CL matches? I highly doubt it's on TSN, and I don't think MediaPro bought the rights (so OneSoccer is out)...

[narduch]

Im wondering about TV as well. My guess is CONCACAF website. But I'm not interested in paying separately for it

[narduch]

So it looks line One Soccer will have only Forge's home games.

 

[Admin]

"in" the soil eh.... will it look like this?

 

[narduch]

So Forge beat Antigua of Guatemala 2-1 on aggregate and advance to the Round of 16.

They will take on CD Olimpia of Honduras, 2017 Concacaf League Champions.

This will be the 2nd time Olimpia will face a Canadian club. In 2008/2009 Champions League they faced the USL Montreal Impact. Impact won the road leg 2-1 and tied the home leg 1-1.

The first match is Aug. 22 in Hamilton with the return leg the following week on Aug 29.

Forge's match on Aug 21 v. HFX will have to be moved. Forge also have a big game against Cavalry scheduled for the Sunday following the 1st leg.

Edit: Just noticed that Whitecaps played Olimpia in 2015 CL Group Stage. Both teams won their home matches 1-0.

Edited August 9, 2019 by narduch