The Canadian Premier League released the 2025 regular season schedule on Wednesday afternoon, presented by WestJet. The Halifax Wanderers open the season with two matches on the road against Atletico Ottawa (April 5) and York United (April 13).
Halifax returns to the Wanderers Grounds for the club’s home opener on Saturday, April 19, against Pacific FC (4:30 p.m. AT kickoff). Single-match tickets are available now at hfxwanderersfc.ca/tickets or by clicking here.
“With a record number of season tickets sold for 2025, the addition of 1,000 seats and several new zones at the Wanderers Grounds, downtown Halifax is going to be rocking when the squad returns to the pitch for the home opener on April 19,” Wanderers founder and president Derek Martin said. “We are excited to bring back our popular holiday matches, move our kickoff times a little later in the day and, for the first time, try a couple of Friday night matches under the lights this summer ”
The Wanderers’ opening match on April 5 against Ottawa is the first of a three-match triple-header to kick off the 2025 CPL season. As in past years, each team will meet all seven of its opponents twice at home and twice on the road, for 14 home matches and 14 away matches.
Playoff berths and postseason seeding will be confirmed on Saturday, Oct. 18, during The Outcome!, which will see all eight clubs kick off in unison for the second time in the League’s existence. The regular-season finale will kick off at 5 p.m. AT, with the Wanderers hosting Atletico Ottawa. The top five teams in the league standings at the end of the day will advance to the 2025 CPL Playoffs.
The road to the North Star Cup will begin on Wednesday, Oct. 22. It will once again see competing clubs compete in the League’s five-team playoff format, which puts added emphasis on the regular season standings and gives an advantage to the teams that perform best over the 28-game schedule. The 2025 CPL Final is to be played on November 8 or 9, depending on which club earns the right to host the marquee match.
All regular season and playoff matches will be broadcast on OneSoccer, the dedicated home of soccer in Canada. OneSoccer is available in 35 countries as an affordable streaming service through the OneSoccer.ca website, via Roku, Chromecast and Apple TV devices and with the OneSoccer app for iOS and Android devices. It is also available as a linear channel on Optik TV (Ch. 980), the pay-TV service operated by TELUS, as well as on streaming service fuboTV Canada.
About Canadian Premier League
The Canadian Premier League (CPL), Canada’s Tier 1 domestic men’s soccer league, is committed to its mission of providing opportunities for Canadian players to showcase their abilities on home soil and to gain prominence on the global soccer scene. A link between the amateur and professional games in the country, the CPL develops homegrown talent in support of the growth of Canadian soccer domestically and internationally. The CPL is proud to bring high-quality, professional soccer to communities from coast to coast, partnering with strong ownership groups, world-class corporate partners and passionate supporters to build a league Canadians can proudly support on and off the field. The CPL, which will contest its seventh season in 2025, plays in Concacaf and FIFA sanctioned competitions. For more updates and information, please visit CanPL.ca
About OneSoccer
OneSoccer is the dedicated home of soccer in Canada, which broadcasts a suite of marquee Canadian soccer content such as the Canadian Premier League, the country’s first-division men’s professional soccer league; the TELUS Canadian Championship, Canada Soccer’s domestic soccer cup competition involving all professional soccer clubs in Canada; and the home friendly matches of Canada Soccer’s Women’s and Men’s National Teams.
About WestJet
WestJet took to the skies in 1996 with just over 200 employees and three aircraft operating service to five destinations. Since then, WestJet has pioneered low-cost travel in Canada, cutting airfares in half, and increasing the flying population in Canada by more than 50 per cent. Following integration with Sunwing in 2025, more than 14,000 WestJetters support nearly 200 aircraft and connect guests to more than 100 destinations across North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
As a major Canadian employer that includes WestJet Airlines, Sunwing Vacations Group and WestJet Cargo, the WestJet Group is Canada’s leading low-cost airline and largest vacation provider, with a united purpose of providing affordable and accessible air and vacation travel to Canadians.
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