Women's Football

[jerrym]

The Western Women's Canadian Football League, after not playing for two years due to Covid, will start up with its first week of games on April30th/May1st with its full schedule to be posted soon.

[jerrym]

The Western Women's Canadian Football League can be seen at:
​https://www.facebook.com/wwcfl/photo...type=3&theater

[jerrym]

The Maritime Women's Football League was the only women's interprovincial league to operate last year, with the St. John going undefeated, outscoring opponents 137-6 in the regular season, and won win the championship game 41-6 against Fredricton Lady Gladiators.






https://www.facebook.com/SaintJohnSt...1308770287257/

[jerrym]

And the Maritime Women's Football League's 2022 season has just started with the Halifax Harbour Hawks defeating the Nova Scotia Buccaneers 44-0.

https://www.facebook.com/halifaxhawks

[jerrym]

After two years of no football due to Covid, the Western Women's Canadian Football League has started up again.

https://www.facebook.com/wwcfl/photo...974168/?type=3

[jerrym]

The Central Canada Women's Football League schedule (https://www.ccwfl.ca/calendrier) starts its inaugural season on May 14 with a three team league.

OUR TEAMS








QUEBEC CITY PHOENIX












OTTAWA CAPITAL REBELS




https://www.ccwfl.ca/quebec

[jerrym]

In the first game ever of the Central Canada Women's Football League the Montreal Blitz beat the Quebec City Phoenix 25-0. Other game results can be seen at https://www.ccwfl.ca

[Mocha]

In the first game ever of the Central Canada Women's Football League the Montreal Blitz beat the Quebec City Phoenix 25-0. Other game results can be seen at https://www.ccwfl.ca

Thanks for the link.

It looks as though Montreal trounced Ottawa last weekend, 36-0. And those two teams play again today.

I found a nice photo gallery from the game:

https://www.blitz-rebels-21mai.ccwfl...0-fc004f5f1d91

[Mocha]

And the Maritime Women's Football League's 2022 season has just started with the Halifax Harbour Hawks defeating the Nova Scotia Buccaneers 44-0.

https://www.facebook.com/halifaxhawks

I think the link here is to a men's team that plays in a 4-down Maritimes league.

The Halifax women's team is the Xplosion.

Attachment 997

[Mocha]

Football Canada posted the schedule for the U18 Women's championship in Regina this summer.

Sunday, July 3
Ontario vs. Alberta, 2 p.m.
Saskatchewan vs. New Brunswick, 3:30 p.m.
Manitoba vs. Ontario, 5 p.m.
Alberta vs. New Brunswick, 6:30 p.m.
Saskatchewan vs. Manitoba, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 6
Manitoba vs. Alberta, 3:30 p.m.
Ontario vs. Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.
New Brunswick vs. Manitoba, 6:30 p.m.
Alberta vs. Saskatchewan, 8 p.m.
New Brunswick vs. Ontario, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 9
Third-Place playoffs
3^rd place vs. 5^th place, 2 p.m.
4^th place vs. 5^th place, 3:30 p.m.
3^rd place vs. 4^th place, 5 p.m.
Gold Medal Game
1^st place vs. 2^nd place, 7 p.m.

https://footballcanada.com/news/foot...-championship/

[jerrym]

In the Western Women’s Canadian Football League final Saskatoon Valkyries defeated the Manitoba Fearless 36-6 on June 25th the 2022 Western Women’s Canadian Football League Champions for the eighth time since 2011.

"The Saskatoon Valkyries are heading to the Western Women’s Canadian Football League final, after holding the Edmonton Storm to minus-25 yards of total offence during a 52-0 victory Sunday in Saskatoon. The Valkyries, who went 4-0 during the regular season, will host the Manitoba Fearless in the WWCFL final Saturday, 7 p.m. at SMF Field. Manitoba went 3-1, their only loss a 43-14 setback against the Valkyries on May 1. On Sunday, the Valkyries put up 450 yards of total offence. Edmonton did not get a first down in the game. Sarah Wright ran 13 times for 137 yards and two touchdowns, while Drew Lundquist notched 13 carries for 112 yards and three majors. Haley Girolami and Ricki Obed caught touchdown passes through the air for the Valkyries."

https://thestarphoenix.com/sports/local-sports/valkyries-head-into-league-final-after-lopsided-win-over-edmonton

[jerrym]

In the Maritime Women's Football League on June 25th, "History was made in the Championship game of Season 19! In 35 degree weather off the turf(40 degrees on the turf) the Halifax Xplosion and Saint John Storm fought for 3.5 hours in triple OT to a 10-10 draw. Everyone on both teams played until they had nothing left. The two teams came to a mutual agreement to end the game in a tie and crown both teams co-champions this year!"
https://www.facebook.com/MaritimeWomensFootballLeague/

[jerrym]

The Montreal Blitz dominated the Central Canada Women's Football League outscoring the other two teams 111-0 in four games.

https://www.ccwfl.ca/copie-de-quebec

[Mocha]

How cool would it be to get a tournament with the top 4 teams across the country in it? I'm not sure how the levels of the three leagues compare, but at least a match between the Montreal and Saskatoon powerhouses could be fun.

[jerrym]

How cool would it be to get a tournament with the top 4 teams across the country in it? I'm not sure how the levels of the three leagues compare, but at least a match between the Montreal and Saskatoon powerhouses could be fun.

I think it would be great but I think the new Central Canada league needs to achieve greater balance first. The Montreal Blitz outscored the two other teams 111-0, no doubt because they've been playing for two decades in several leagues and independently. Also the Central League is going to find it difficult to expand if Montreal keeps having total domination, just as women's hockey almost got dropped from the Olympics because Canada and the US so utterly dominated the competition there was virtually no interest outside these two countries. So the Canadians and Americans went about helping to develop other countries' teams to keep them in the Olympics and it worked.

[jerrym]

"The first-ever Women’s National Under 18 Football Championships are taking place in Regina at Mosaic Stadium." You can read more about it below.

​https://regina.ctvnews.ca/regina-pla...hips-1.5973791

[jerrym]

The Central Canadian Women's Football League plans to expand with teams in Toronto and Trois Rivieres in 2023, added to the 2022 premier season teams in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. More teams are to be added over the next five years.

A 2023 season has been announced by the league, which aims to expand to include teams in Toronto and Trois-Rivières,^[4] and elsewhere in Quebec and Ontario within five years.^[3]
In May 2022, ten CCWFL players were selected for the primary Canada team roster at the American football 2022 World Championship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...ootball_League

[Mocha]

The Central Canadian Women's Football League plans to expand with teams in Toronto and Trois Rivieres in 2023, added to the 2022 premier season teams in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. More teams are to be added over the next five years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...ootball_League

Expansion would be great. Kingston would be a good locale, I think.

And our women's National Teams plays their first game at this year's Worlds in Finland tomorrow. IIRC, the game vs Australia starts about 6 AM EDT Saturday morning.

[jerrym]

OUA has its first on-field female official: Taylor Mickleboro.

https://usports.ca/en/sports/footbal...otball-history

[jerrym]

The Maritime Women's Football League (MWFL) was the first women's tackle football league in Canada. It is entering its 20th season played under a mixture of Canadian, American, and its own unique rules.

The league was founded in 2004 as the New Brunswick Women’s Football League, NBWFL. In 2006, it changed to its present name, the MWFL, when Halifax joined the competition....

Since the MWFL began, the Western Women's Canadian Football League and Central Canadian Women's Football League have also been established in other regions of the country.

Modified rules[edit]

In the MWFL, the playing field is a regulation Canadian football field, 65 yards wide, but offences are permitted four downs (rather than the usual three) to move the ball forward 10 yards. The one-yard neutral zone is the same as in regular Canadian football. Instead of 12 players per side, MWFL teams play with 11 per team according to the league's 2012 rules.^[5] As of 2012, the four timed quarters are each 12 minutes long ordinarily, but 15 minutes long in the final two weeks of the regular season.^[5] The league's former rules in 2007^[6] stipulated that games were played with 10 players per team, in four quarters of 10 minutes each.
League champions[edit]

The league championship is known as the SupHer Bowl, while the championship trophy is known as the Judy Upward Trophy.^[7]

2004	Simmonds Seagals
2005	Saint John Buccaneers
2006	Capital Area Lady Gladiators
2007	Capital Area Lady Gladiators	[8]
2008	Saint John Storm	[8]
2009	Moncton Vipers	[8]
2010	Saint John Storm	[8]
2011	Saint John Storm	[8]
2012	Moncton Vipers	[8]
2013	Capital Area Lady Gladiators	[8]
2014	Saint John Storm	[9]
2015	Saint John Storm	[10]
2016	Saint John Storm
2017	Saint John Storm
2018	Fredericton Nissan Lady Gladiators
2019	Halifax Xplosion
2020	Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Saint John Storm
2022	Halifax Xplosion & Saint John Storm (co-champions) Championship game tied 10–10 after triple OT	[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariti...ootball_League