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Forge FC are just four days removed from winning a championship and they're already looking ahead to the next challenge. Coach Bobby Smyrniotis has had little time to rest on his laurels after Saturday's Island Games Final victory before turning his focus to Forge's upcoming Concacaf League run...
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Long before the Canadian Premier League’s Island Games came to a close last weekend, the post-mortem on Valour FC’s second season was being conducted in full. Hamilton’s Forge FC captured its second straight North Shield with a 2-0 win over HFX Wanderers FC in Charlottetown on Saturday, capping...
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Jeff Paulus caused a stir across Canadian soccer this week, announcing on Monday that he'll be stepping down as head coach of FC Edmonton, continuing on as Manager of Player Development on top of the new Technical Director role he's accepted with amateur club Edmonton Scottish. The move wasn't...
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Bobby Smyrniotis joined TSN 1150 radio in Hamilton on Tuesday to discuss Forge FC repeating as CPL champions with their win over HFX Wanderers FC in The Island Games final last weekend. Smyrniotis explained that Forge’s run in last year’s Concacaf League – it beat Guatemalan outfit Antigua GFC...
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It's still hard to believe that The Island Games are finished. All eight CPL clubs have now safely returned home (some more recently than others), as they begin to settle in for a long off-season — or, in Forge FC's case, for some continental football. There's plenty to break down from the CPL...
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Who saw this coming? The Canadian Premier League wrapped up its season Saturday, crowning Forge FC as league champions for a second straight season. Oh, yeah, the entire single-site campaign, dubbed The Island Games, was held on Prince Edward Island. A worldwide pandemic couldn't stop eight CPL...
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FC Edmonton announced on Monday that Jeff Paulus will not be continuing in his role as head coach, with a search for his replacement to begin immediately. Paulus will remain at FC Edmonton in a new capacity, being named the Manager of Player Development. He'll oversee the FCE academy system...
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Anyone else going through Island Games withdrawal? The truncated 2020 Canadian Premier League season wrapped up on Saturday, with Forge FC leaving PEI as league champions after a 2-0 win over HFX Wanderers FC. Just like you, we here at CanPL.ca are eager to relive as much of The Island Games as...
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For the first time in weeks, it's Monday morning and there's no CPL soccer to look forward to in the coming days. As grand a climax as Saturday's Island Games final was to watch, it's setting in now that the 2020 CPL season has come to a close after a wild six weeks in Prince Edward Island. All...
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Really, there's only one set of numbers that mattered on Saturday: Forge FC 2, HFX Wanderers FC 0. The Hamiltonians conquered the CPL for the second straight year, defeating the Maritimers comprehensively to retain the North Star Shield. Still, it was a highly entertaining contest, with hard...
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The North Star Shield will remain in Steeltown. The big orange machine keeps rolling along, as Forge FC won its second consecutive Canadian Premier League title on Saturday afternoon by defeating HFX Wanderers FC 2-0 in The Island Games final from Charlottetown. By virtue of its victory, Forge...
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Forge FC: Canadian Premier League Champions... again. The Hamilton-based club captured its second consecutive CPL title on Saturday with a 2-0 win over HFX Wanderers FC in the 2020 CPL Final on Prince Edward Island. A cagey affair decided by Alex Achinioti-Jonsson’s 60th-minute header, Forge...
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The Canadian Premier League paid tribute to local doctors and paramedics during Saturday's CPL Final between Forge FC and HFX Wanderers FC in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Following the playing of the national anthem, the match coin and ball were delivered to referee Juan Marquez by the...
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Forge FC defeated HFX Wanderers FC 2-0 on Saturday in the CPL Final from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Forge's Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson and Maxim Tissot scored second-half goals to sink the Wanderers. Watch the video of the match highlights above.
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The Canadian Premier League announced the finalists for its end-of-season awards on Friday, and not surprisingly, Forge FC and HFX Wanderers FC lead the way in nominations. HFX forward Akeem Garcia, Forge captain Kyle Bekker and Pacific FC attacker Marco Bustos are the nominees for the Player of...
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Charlottetown, PE (September 18, 2020) – Today the Canadian Premier League is pleased to announce the 2020 Award Nominees for their coveted individual awards that the Clubs’ Players and Head Coach will win at the 2020 Canadian Premier League Awards Ceremony later this year. The Awards – each a...
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In the latest edition on the OneSoccer Hangout, the panel of Adam Jenkins, Kurt Larson, Oliver Platt and Gareth Wheeler preview Saturday's CPL Final between Forge FC and HFX Wanderers FC, debate who should win the MVP award and much more.
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How do you solve a problem like Forge FC? The CPL champions don't lose often. That's... uh... why they're the champions. Just one team has managed to get the best of them in 2020, and that's 905 Derby rivals York9 FC, who won 3-2 on Aug. 26 at The Islands Games. Actually, York9 also holds the...
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The 2020 CPL Final will be (and probably already has been) played out several times on the chalkboards of both Forge FC and HFX Wanderers FC. Bobby Smyrniotis and Stephen Hart will enter the title match with a meticulously thought-out plan for defeating the other; every player will have their...
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How to beat HFX Wanderers FC is the big question facing Forge FC at the moment. A victory over HFX is the only thing standing between Forge and back-to-back league titles, as the sides meet in the 2020 CPL Final on Saturday (2 p.m. ET/3 p.m. AT, OneSoccer and CBC). Cavalry FC was the lone outfit...
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Just like that, The Island Games are almost over. The 2020 Canadian Premier League Finals between Forge FC and HFX Wanderers FC takes place on Saturday (2 p.m. ET/3 p.m. AT, OneSoccer and CBC) from Charlottetown's UPEI Turf Field after a gruelling six weeks of competition. A soccer season held...
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In the latest edition on the OneSoccer Hangout, the panel of Asa Rehman, Kurt Larson, Oliver Platt and Gareth Wheeler discuss the six teams that have returned home from the Island Games, and ask what kind of changes FC Edmonton will make in the off-season and whether or not coach Jeff Paulus...
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