Project 8 says at least six clubs want in for 2025 launch
Three extra golf equipment have submitted purposes to Canada Soccer to hitch Project 8, the home ladies’s professional soccer league at the moment beneath development.
Project 8 didn’t establish the brand new golf equipment. Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto have already signed up for the brand new league.
The purposes for skilled membership admission can be thought-about at Canada Soccer’s annual basic assembly in early May in Montreal.
“This milestone brings Project 8 closer to realizing the launch of Canada’s first professional women’s soccer league in 2025,” Project 8 stated in an announcement Thursday.
Canadian Tire, CIBC, Air Canada and DoorDash have already joined the league as “founding partners.”
“We began with the assumption that there have been companions and traders who would acknowledge the once-in-a-lifetime alternative to construct a ladies’s professional soccer league that might not solely change the pathways and futures of Canadian gamers however reshape the Canadian sport business and its followers,” Project 8 CEO and co-founder Diana Matheson, a former Canadian worldwide, stated within the assertion.
“Over this past year, that belief has shifted to reality. An incredible group of individuals, who will be introducing themselves over the coming weeks, have stepped up as partners and owners.”
Project 8 says league branding, participant signings and ticket pre-sales are slated to start in the summertime.
The plan is for an eight-team, two-conference league to start out play in 2025. AFC Toronto City turned the brand new league’s third founding franchise in April 2023, becoming a member of the Vancouver Whitecaps and Calgary Foothills.
The franchise payment is $1 million with a necessity for an estimated $8 million to $10 million in whole invested capital over the primary 5 seasons along with mandatory spending on infrastructure. Owners are shopping for a chunk of the league in addition to their very own franchise.
Matheson is joined by Thomas Gilbert because the leaders of Project 8 Sports Inc.
