New under-21 minutes threshold confirmed for 2020 CPL season

With a shortened 2020 Canadian Premier League season comes adjusted regulations, including to the CPL’s under-21 rule. Michael Findlay, the CPL’s Director of Football Development, confirmed to CanPL.ca this week that clubs will be required to field domestic under-21 players for 250 combined minutes during The Island Games, which is down from the 2019 season’s 1,000-minute threshold. All domestic players born Jan. 1, 1999 or after will be classified as an under-21, including loanees and CPL-U SPORTS Draftees. Teams are still required to have at least three under-21s signed to their rosters for the campaign, which all eight clubs have confirmed. RELATED READING: The Island Games: 2020 CPL season previews for all eight teams CPL teams didn’t have trouble hitting the 1,000 minute threshold for Canadian under-21s in the league's first season: All seven clubs made the target by late August, and each side had at least one player single-handedly collect their team’s required minutes. Incredibly, Pacific FC surpassed the benchmark in just their third match of last season, away to Forge FC on May 8. In all, under-21 players combined for 36,161 minutes across the CPL in 2019. Here’s a team-by-team breakdown of under-21s players signed for the 2020 CPL season.