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Canada Soccer and the player associations representing the two senior national teams have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement. The CBA formalizes a framework agreement reached in 2024 with the men's and women's national teams.

Canada will learn today which country it will face to open the FIFA World Cup on June 12. The winner of today's playoff game between Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina will join Canada, Qatar and Switzerland in Group B at the tournament.

FIFA's proposal to change the offside law hugely in favor of the attacking team starts trials in the Canadian Premier League this weekend after failing to win support from European soccer officials.

Every team has an unlikely leader -- not the best player, and not the biggest personality, but a player whose presence speaks to something larger about the game and its possibilities. Some players lead by being part of the team at all. For Canada's . ...

Jonathan David scored twice from the penalty spot in the second half before Tajon Buchanan was shown a straight red card as Canada battled back from a 2-0 deficit to salvage a 2-2 draw with Iceland in an international men's soccer friendly Saturday . ...

The national squad hosts Iceland Saturday in an international friendly and gets another test Tuesday against Tunisia. Canada will play two more exhibition matches this spring before its World Cup opener June 12 in Toronto.

With the men's World Cup a little more than two months away, Canadian soccer coach Marsch faces questions at nearly every position, either because of injury or, more thankfully, hard choices between good options.

A Canadian soccer star is speaking out about the need to make sports safe for trans athletes -- and the world safer for trans people -- as restrictive laws come into effect across North America.

Italy finally won a match in the World Cup playoffs. Now the four-time champion needs to win one more to avoid failing to qualify for a third straight time. The Azzurri beat Northern Ireland 2-0 in the European semifinals on Thursday.

It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon, Bim Pepple remembers, the day before Canada Soccer announced its men's roster for this month's international window. He received a message from Jesse Marsch offering an invitation to camp. Pepple played ...