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The history of Canadian football is permeated with geographical complexities, infrastructural failings, and a collective exasperation amongst native fans—but has a newly-established league put an end to decades of disillusionment? In this five-part series, Ryan Murray attempts to understand whether the Canadian Premier League is the vehicle that will help to awake a sleeping giant from its slumber, and re-address the balance of power across the North American footballing landscape. Legitimate hope or another false dawn? Let’s find out.
Artwork by Onkar Shirsekar
Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.
With every passing decade, Canada’s need to establish a viable top-tier has become increasingly pressing. The commercial strength, mass appeal, and broadcasting reach of the world’s best leagues has effectively raised the bar. To even hang onto the coattails of these all-powerful institutions, less high-profile competitions must always find new ways to improve their outputs.
We see these efforts manifesting right across the global footballing landscape, as national and league governing bodies undertake a host of measures in a bid to develop the quality of their domestic product. Football Australia have mandated that all A-League sides (men’s and women’s) are subject to club licensing regulations (a tool used to manage and support clubs in relation to five key areas of focus—sporting, infrastructure, personnel and administrative, legal, and financial), Liga MX and the MLS have united forces to create a competitive dual-league tournament (uninspiringly dubbed the ‘Leagues Cup’), and we’re perhaps already a little too familiar with the money-spinning methods deployed by Saudi Pro League stakeholders in this respect. Yet, these are just a handful of examples. Indeed, even leagues which are based outside football’s traditional epicentres of power are becoming increasingly more professionalised, as they continue to follow the blueprint set…
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Author : Ryan Murray
Publish date : 2023-11-23 13:31:12
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