Canadian Premier League Archives

From Brampton Soccer to Belgium: Kwasi Poku

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 by Brampton Adult Soccer

How does a young man make the journey from Brampton soccer to Belgium? Kwasi Poku has done it in spectacular fashion as his transfer from CPL’s Forge FC to Belgium’s RWD Molenbeek smashes the previous CPL transfer record. All it took was goals, goals, and more goals. Starting his career with Forge when he signed […]

Brampton Soccer’s Kwasi Poku has a big week

Posted on July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 by Brampton Adult Soccer

Starting with the a match in the Canadian Championship against Toronto FC and finishing up with a match against Pacific FC in the CPL, Brampton Soccer’s Kwasi Poku has had quite the week. For several games now, as an emergency replacement striker for Forge FC with Terran Campbell and Jordan Hamilton both recovering from injuries, […]

Hear from Brampton’s Chris Nanco

Posted on April 14, 2023May 21, 2023 by Brampton Adult Soccer

The Hammer of Sparx podcast is arguably the definitive, independent Forge FC & Canadian Premier League podcast with a focus on ‘getting to know the people in the CPL’ themselves. Not just as players but as individuals off the pitch. All of the episodes have been extremely insightful but we’d be remiss to not highlight […]

Can Brampton’s Soccer Community have one of these?

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 by Brampton Adult Soccer

According to our information providing friend, Google.com, Langley, British Colombia has a population of 25,000 people. The entire Vancouver Metro Area, including the City of Vancouver and all of its suburbs, has 2.6 million people. Compare that to Brampton, with a population of 600,000, Peel Region (Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon) with its population of 1.6 […]

Brampton Soccer’s Shaan Hundal Signs for Vancouver FC

Posted on February 4, 2023February 3, 2023 by Brampton Adult Soccer

Earlier this week Vancouver FC, the CPL’s newest club, announced that they had agreed to a deal with Brampton soccer’s Shaan Hundal. Hundal failed to make an impact in his first stint in the CPL during the Island Games tournament held in PEI. (The CPL’s response to running a season during the height of COVID […]

Vancouver FC: CPL’s 9th Club

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

In the evening on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022, Vancouver FC, a team Canada knew was coming, was unveiled as the 9th Canadian Premier League club for the 2023 season. The press conference held by former Canadian international Rob Friend’s company SixFive Sports & Entertainment unveiled the new club’s name, branding and Head Coach Afshin Ghotbi. […]

So you like goals? (5 Stunners from the CPL)

Posted on September 14, 2022November 4, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

If you play soccer in Brampton, or soccer anywhere for that matter, you like goals. Even defenders like goals, just not against them. Keepers as well… …what keeper doesn’t dream of scoring a game winner in time-added on? Or catching the opposing keeper off their line and chipping them from within their own box? The […]

What CONCACAF League taught us about Canadian Soccer

Posted on August 26, 2022September 11, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

Canadian Premier League teams have been competing in the CONCACAF League, which is essentially our region’s equivalent to UEFA’s Europa League, a tier below the CONCACAF Champions League, since 2019. At the outset, narratives and expectations were minimalist and humble. CPL teams were still within their first year of existence with rosters comprised predominantly of […]

Brampton Soccer’s Lowell Wright

Posted on August 10, 2022September 11, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

If you’ve played in Brampton Adult Soccer for any reasonable amount of time (over the last 5-10 years) then you’ve already been in the presence of Brampton Soccer’s Lowell Wright who has recently seen a rise in his reputation as a potential future Canadian soccer star. Lowell, attending BAS matches with his referee father, Wayne […]

Pacific FC wins BIG in CONCACAF League

Posted on August 9, 2022September 11, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

On Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 Pacific FC hosted Waterhouse FC of Jamaica in the 2nd leg of their CONCACAF League tie. This was Pacific’s first ever CONCACAF match at home and while supporters have seen Pacific FC put up stellar performances against the likes of Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the Canadian Championship, Tuesday night’s performance […]

Aribim Pepple Transfer Highlights Key CPL Benefit

Posted on August 6, 2022September 11, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

Just this past week Cavalry FC and the Canadian Premier League announced another high profile transfer as Aribim Pepple left Calgary to join Luton Town, a club recently promoted to England’s second tier, the EFL Championship. The transfer to Luton Town is a big enough deal in and of itself; Pepple really hit the ground […]

What is an “Olimpico” and where can you see one?

Posted on July 23, 2022September 11, 2022 by Brampton Adult Soccer

What exactly is an ‘Olimpico’? Well, it’s a goal, but to be considered an Olimpico Goal is has to be scored directly from a corner kick, without being touched by any other player on the pitch. (There is some debate whether the keeper getting a slight touch or not disqualifies a goal from being an […]