Save the date: May 4, 2019. That’s the day Valour FC will play their inaugural home game against FC Edmonton, according to the schedule release from the Canadian Premier League (CPL) The CPL finally released its schedule to the public this week. Valour FC will play 14 home and 14 away games in its first season, with all home games at Investors Group Field (IGF). The first ever game for Valour FC is May 1st when they head to Victoria to play Pacific FC. What is unique about the schedule format is its split into two seasons, a spring season and fall season. The spring season will end with a Canada Day home battle with York 9 FC. The fall season starts on the road with a clash against FC Edmonton on July 17th. Valour’s first home game of the […]
Annual General Meeting
We’re holding our first ever Annual General Meeting at 7:00pm on Thursday February 7th at the King’s Head pub. We’re going to discuss our plan for the inaugural season and elect a board of directors to run the group. If you’d like to get involved on the board you can send your name and the position for which you’re applying to volunteer@redriverrising.ca. The deadline for applications is 11:59pm Sunday February 3, 2019. And if you don’t want to be on the board but still want to pitch in we’ll have opportunities for volunteers to join the committees we’re creating. We’ll focus on things like game day operations, community outreach, merchandise, and communications. We’ll share more details at the meeting. So make sure you join us at the meeting at 7:00pm on February 7, we’re excited for the league kick off […]
Christmas Wish List
As they say, tis the season as the holidays are in the air. With just over four months until Valour FC’s first season in the Canadian Premier League (CPL), we are waiting like kids at the Christmas tree for the first kick off. With recent player signings and the U-Sports draft in the books, the picture is starting to become more apparent with what our team will look like. As the stockings are being hung by the chimney with care, here are some things we wish for in the inaugural Valour FC season. Signing an overseas well known International With the CPL now in play, the potential is there for top Canadian internationals to potentially come home. Just dreaming of the likes of Ian Hume, Milan Borjan, suiting up for a CPL club is mouth-watering. While it is more likely […]
You’re Invited to our Holiday Party!
We’ll be celebrating the end of a very fun year and looking forward to what will surely be an exciting 2019! Join us and our special guest, Valour FC coach Rob Gale, at 7 pm on December 19th at the Kings Head Pub (120 King Street). It will be a fun relaxed night, and if you’ve never been to a Red River Rising gathering, this is the event for you! Bring a friend and join us! We’ll also be collecting donations of cash and non-perishable food items for Winnipeg Harvest. You can RSVP by completing the form below, or at our Facebook event page.
Welcome to Winnipeg Skylar!
For months CanPL fans across the country have been eagerly awaiting news of the first player signings and yesterday, the league cleverly began building anticipation with several teasers. Valour FC posted a letter and video from our first player, giving us a sneak peek at who it might be, and the speculation began with fervor. When Coach Rob Gale teased that he was giving us a ‘set-piece weapon” and we read that our player was ready to put it all out there on the pitch for us, we were hooked. Now we know that our player, the first man committed to representing Valour, is Skylar Thomas and we wholeheartedly welcome him to this city! Born in Scarborough, Thomas played soccer at Syracuse University for four years, before being drafted 11th overall by Toronto FC in 2015. The next four years […]
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