The Canadian Soccer League wants to re- establish itself as the foremost soccer league in Canada and is doing so with the help of Italian equipment supplier Givova. Givova is now one of the fastest growing suppliers of soccer uniforms, apparel and equipment in the world and is the official supplier to 51 of the world’s top clubs.
The CSL and Givova have entered into a working relationship that will revive and expand an agreement struck in 2010 to re-brand the league’s championship for the Givova Cup and to return to the Givova Canadian Soccer League banner. The new-look CSL will unfold immediately .
The CSL, with 14 teams in two divisions, is considered to be the top league in Canada, attracting players from overseas, mostly from Europe, playing at a semi-professional level under the pyramid of three Canadian teams in Major League Soccer (Toronto FC, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps) and two Canadian teams (FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury FC) of the North American Soccer League. Both of these leagues are based in the U.S. and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation.
In 2012, the CSL was identified as a league with more than 40 players selected for various national teams, mostly youth national teams, during the period 2009 to 2012.
The CSL-Givova partnership will focus on promotion of the league and its member clubs, of attractive First Division soccer and improving attendances and the development of players in the CSL Second Division and clubs with an academy structure. It resumes a popular television soccer show, The CSL This Week, in conjunction with the BeIN and Ethnic Channels Group networks. The show will kick-off Thursday night with the following schedule this week:
Thursday July 14, 2016
7:30pm and 10:30pm
Friday July 15, 2016
4:00pm and 11pm
Saturday July 16, 2016
7:30am and 12:00pm
Sunday July 17, 2016
7:00pm
“We are looking to build a larger, better CSL and will be doing so with the help of Givova, a company we are familiar with and which has grown in recent years to be a highly regarded supplier to the soccer community,“ said Pino Jazbec, the CSL’s league administrator, in announcing the new agreement.
Other features of the Givova-CSL agreement are under discussion and further details
to view The CSL This Week will be released Thursday.
