To provide leadership in the pursuit of excellence in soccer, nationally and internationally, in cooperation with its members and stakeholders.
Leading Canada to victory and Canadians to a life-long passion for soccer.
We lead with unwavering integrity. Honesty guides our actions. Our decisions are fair and ethical. We thrive with excellence. Our passion fuels our performance on and off the field of play. We are accountable to our stakeholders. Transparency directs our communication. We respect and include all.
Land Acknowledgement:
As we gather on soccer pitches across the country to play, meet and grow our sport, we recognize that we are connected with one another through the winds that blow air into our lungs and through the waters that rain from the sky to deep into the earth.
We acknowledge that the ground beneath our feet is historically the home of Indigenous Peoples.
We at Canada Soccer do this to reaffirm our commitment to and responsibility for improving relationships between nations and to improving our collaboration with each other.
Message from Canada Soccer President
Canada Soccer has been granted an opportunity of a lifetime.
The co-hosting of FIFA World Cup 2026 provides all of us with a bold target. The visionary milestones contained in this Canada Soccer Achieving 2022-26 Strategic Plan/Canada Soccer Global Gameplan/ are a pathway to achieve heights unseen in our sport. This plan is an evolution of the Canada Soccer Nation 2019-21 Strategic Plan. It sets forth a series of ambitious actions that we will embrace over the coming five years to ensure that the investment, achievements, and aspirations of the Canadian football community come to fruition.
This is true whether they were born in Canada or came to this country in search of something better for their family. We must continue to encourage the development of female, black, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+ players, leaders, coaches, referees, and administrators.
We must diversify the sources of revenue that drive the operations of our soccer federation while still connecting it more directly with our constituents from coast-to-coast-to-coast for whom the game means so much. We must work to ensure a safe, and welcoming sport so that voices are provided to the voiceless through the Canada Soccer Safe Sport Roster. We must continue to invest in development initiatives for our players, coaches, referees, administrators, and volunteers so that they can all raise their level of performance across the system.
In addition to the goals for the next quadrennial, and as we set to work on fulfilling the priorities contained within the Canada Soccer Achieving 2022-26 Strategic Plan, we must keep one eye focused on a future idealized vision for the game. Ambitious targets for the future demand that all stakeholders continuously challenge themselves to strive to achieve greater successes together.
To achieve these ambitions, we must all imagine a future where Canadian professionals regularly ply their trade in the top leagues across the globe, and where domestic leagues and competition structures place a focus on developmentally appropriate, safe, and welcoming environments for all participants.
Sharing of the processes, practices, and standards by which our club development initiatives under the Canada Soccer Club Licensing Program are aligned must be a priority for all involved in sanctioned soccer.
Meanwhile, we must ensure that the increased attention on the game in our country during the lead up and through the FIFA World Cup 2026 is leveraged to attract, engage, and retain an ever-growing audience of fans of Canada Soccer’s National Teams and Competitions.
Achieving the strategic initiatives outlined in this plan will not be enough. Each of us has a role in dreaming bigger, aspiring for higher levels of success, and contributing to a system of development-focused organizations. Our commitment to these strategic objectives will result in Canada’s evolution as a football nation that is respected as a leader on, and off the field.
Canada Soccer has been provided the opportunity of a lifetime as co-host of the FIFA World Cup 2026. Capitalizing on the tremendous success of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007, the FIFA Women’s Under-20 World Cup 2014, and FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015, Canada Soccer has solidified our place as a top-tier event hosting nation and organization. When the world arrives on our doorstep in 2026, we will be a different organization than we are today.
Over the past two decades, the growth of Canada Soccer has been second to none. Our Women’s National Team Program has gone from a Top 10 nation with back-to-back Olympic Bronze Medals to become the World Champions as Gold Medalists at the Tokyo 2020 games. The growth of interest in a domestic women’s professional footprint has placed it within reach.
Our Men’s National Team program has turned a corner with qualification to the FIFA World Cup a reality for Qatar 2022 and a new identity that has positioned many of its players as globally-recognizable stars putting in world-class performances for both club and country. Qualification to the FIFA World Cup is now expected of the Men’s National Team.
Domestically, we have much to celebrate. A growing domestic professional footprint for our Canadian Championship and a professional men’s league to call our own. A renewed focus on developing the next generation of players, coaches, referees, and administrators is within reach with the expansion of our Academy Online Learning platform and the Canada Soccer Club Licensing Program.
But, we cannot rest on the successes of the present. We must aspire to take advantage of the increasingly urgent opportunities that lie in front of us. We must continue to set audacious goals and achieve them. The 2022-26 Strategic Plan does just that. It not only sets a course for the next five years, but, it provides an aspirational blueprint for the kind of thinking required to move the game, and the organization forward during the greatest period of opportunity Canada Soccer has seen.
Canada Soccer will continue to link the grassroots of the game with the aspirational levels of its National Teams’ programming in support of the development of Canadian players, coaches, referees, and administrators, and to expand and clarify its programs in support of best practices in soccer development.
Canada Soccer will work toward providing transparent, accountable, and steady leadership of the game through its stewardship as the governing body of soccer in Canada to ensure an open, welcoming, and supportive soccer environment for all backed by its Safe Sport Roster.
Canada Soccer will work to ensure the growth of the game by maximizing the impact of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026 and providing opportunities to those that have previously encountered barriers to access or advancement.
Aspirational XI for 2030
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