A professional women's soccer club based in Montreal, Quebec will compete in the Northern Super League, in the top flight of the Canadian soccer league system. The club will play their first season in 2025, as one of the six charter members of the league. Owned by entrepreneurs Isabèle Chevalier and Jean-François Crevier, it is one of two professional soccer clubs in the province of Quebec, alongside CF Montréal.
The club was co-founded by Quebecer entrepreneurs Isabèle Chevalier and Jean-François Crevier, who bought a licence for a team in the Northern Super League, then tentatively known as Project 8, in July 2023.[1] Chevalier, who gained notoriety as a "dragon" on both the French and French-Canadian adaptations of Dragons' Den, sought a team in the league as a passion project inspired by her advocacy for women's sports, while Crevier, whose companies manufacture and distribute lubricants, sought involvement in the league after news reports covering its establishment piqued his interest.[2][3][4] Their acquisition, along with regulatory approval by Canada Soccer, was achieved in May 2024,[1][5] and the league publicly announced Montreal and Ottawa Rapid FC as the last two of its six charter members at the espnW Summit Canada shortly after.[6][7][8]
During the club's development, Chevalier and Crevier sought advice from former Laval Comets and Canadian national team player Amy Walsh, and former Montreal Alouettes president Patrick Boivin.[4] They appointed former Montréal Alouettes and Montreal Alliance executive Annie Larouche as the club's first president, and former Juvisy and French national team player Marinette Pichon as its first sporting director.[9][10] Larouche, who was still an executive at the Alliance when she was nominated, served out the rest of her tenure at the Alliance to the end of the 2024 CEBL season.[11] Pichon had immigrated to Quebec in 2019, following her tenure as Juvisy's general manager, and participated in the local soccer scene prior to her appointment.[11][12] Pichon appointed Robert Rositoiu, who achieved a League1 Canada treble as coach of A.S. Blainville Féminin in 2022, as the club's first head coach.[13][14] The club initially found difficulty in securing a long-term tenancy at a venue in Montreal, and will adopt a touring model for their inaugural 2025 season, in which their home games will be played in various venues.[4][15]
The club's training ground is the Centre Sportif Bois-de-Boulogne in Laval, Quebec, which will undertake two rounds of renovations to accommodate the club.[13]
The club is independently owned by Isabèle Chevalier and Jean-François Crevier.[1][5] It is led by Annie Larouche as its president, while Marinette Pichon manages the club as its sporting director.[9][10]
Robert Rositoiu serves as the club's head coach.[13][14]
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The applications for professional club admission will be considered at Canada Soccer's annual general meeting in early May in Montreal.
At the espnW Canada conference in Toronto, Matheson also announced Ottawa and Montreal have signed on to join previously announced clubs...
...la nomination d'Annie Larouche à titre de présidente du club, tandis que l'ex-gloire du soccer français Marinette Pichon en sera la directrice sportive.
Larouche leaves her position with the Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League, at the end of this season [...] After her sporting career, [Pichon] was general manager at FCF Juvisy Essonne...
Rositoiu is well known in the world of women's soccer, having won three trophies with AS Blainville in Ligue1 Québec [...] Rositoiu's appointment was the result of a meticulous selection process led by Pichon...
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