After the hype around professional feminine hockey teams, Montreal is preparing to acquire a professional feminine soccer team for 2025.
In 2023, Montreal entered the Professional Women’s Hockey League, which was also created in the same year. This year, Montreal finished in second position with a total of 13 wins and 11 defeats. It was Toronto that finished in first place with 17 victories and 7 losses.
The project’s founder is Diana Matheson, a professional Soccer player, who participated in the Olympics three times. She was also selected to participate in the 2015 Soccer Feminine World Cup. The double Olympic medalist was born in Ontario on April 6th, 1984, so she is 40 years old.
The name of her project is “Project 8” and the two entrepreneurs who made the project come to life are Isabèlle Chevalier and Jean-François Crevier. Isabèlle Chevalier is an entrepreneur who played in the show: “Dans l’oeil du Dragon”. She’s also the president and the CEO of Bio-K+.
For now, the team doesn’t have an identity or a logo “but it’s coming,” says Chevalier with a contagious smile during an interview. The season will start in spring 2025 with approximately 25 matches planned.
The team will not have a sedentary stadium but will play on multiple fields. But as Mrs Crevier said ” We’re in advanced discussions to set up, but what’s important for us is that we choose a hyper-professional environment for the training center because it’s their house. So we want to attract them with a professional environment”.
The other cities that are going to participate in this new sports event are Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, and of course Montreal
