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| Full name | Calgary Foothills Football Club | |
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| Stadium | Calgary Soccer Centre | |
| League | League1 Alberta | |
| 2025 | L1AB: 2nd | |
| Website | https://gofoothills.ca/ | |
Calgary Foothills WFC is a Canadian soccer club based inCalgary,Alberta that currently plays inUnited Women's Soccer andLeague1 Alberta. The club was founded as a youth club in 1972 and in 2017 as a UWS franchise. The team is the women's team ofCalgary Foothills FC.
The Calgary Foothills Soccer Club was founded in 1972 as a youth soccer club.[1] In 2014, the club formed amen's semi-pro side to play in the US-basedPremier Development League to begin play in 2015.[2]
In 2015, the club formed a women's side, playing a season of exhibition matches in 2015, with the aim to compete in theUSL W-League beginning in 2016.[3][4] However, the W-League unexpectedly folded after the 2015 season, leaving the club without a league to play in.[5] In 2015, they played a series of 7 friendlies, including a 1–0 victory over the W-League West-leadingSeattle Sounders Women.[citation needed] The club planned to switch to theUWS for 2016, but those plans were put on hold after theCanadian Soccer Association denied the applications of theLaval Comets andQuebec Dynamo for the 2016 UWS.[4]
The following year in 2017, they did manage to join the UWS,[6][7] becoming the first Canadian team in the US-based league,[8] after receiving their sanctioning from the CSA,Alberta Soccer Association, and theUnited States Soccer Federation.[9] The club's inaugural UWS game was played on May 26, 2017, againstReal Salt Lake Women, with Foothills suffering a 3–0 defeat.[10] The club finished theirinaugural season coming in second place in the West Conference.[11]
In2018, the Foothills won their first West Conference title, advancing to the league playoffs where they lost in the semi-finals.[12] In2019, they repeated as West Division Champions, earning a berth in the Final Four tournament for the second year, as well as earning the right to host the tournament atMount Royal University field.[13] After defeating theLancaster Inferno in the semifinals, Foothills would lose the 2019 UWS Championship 1–0 toLA Galaxy OC in front of over 1000 fans.[14][15]
In June 2020, the UWS would announce the cancellation of the 2020 season due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and as such, Calgary Foothills would not play that season.[16] They returned to action in 2021, with a match against a new Canadian expansion franchise from Edmonton,SASA Impact FC, in the first all-Canadian UWS match.[17] In the 2022 season they would win all 10 of their regular season games, before eventually losing to Chicago Mustangs in the 2022 UWS Finals.[18]
In 2021, the club became part of a group looking to create a new Canadian pro-am women's league.[19] In 2022, it was announced that the club would be, alongsideVancouver Whitecaps FC, one of eight teams in a new Canadian women's pro-league started by former national team playerDiana Matheson.[20] The league will debut in 2025 as theNorthern Super League with six teams.
In 2023, they added a second team to play inLeague1 Alberta, while also continuing to play in United Women's Soccer.[21]
The Foot Soldiers were founded in February 2015 with the intention of bringing a passionate atmosphere to Calgary Foothills FC games.[22]
UWS team
| Season | League | Division | Record | Rank | Playoffs | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | United Women's Soccer | West Conference | 4–1–3 | 2nd (5) | did not qualify | |
| 2018 | 7–2–1 | 1st (6) | Semi-finals | |||
| 2019 | 6–1–1 | 1st (5) | Finalists | |||
| 2020 | Season cancelled due toCOVID-19 pandemic | |||||
| 2021 | West Conference | 2–1–1 | 2nd (5) | did not qualify | [23] | |
| 2022 | 10–0–0 | 1st (6) | Finalists | [24] | ||
| 2023 | 5–0–2 | 2nd (5) | did not qualify | [25] | ||
| 2024 | 4–0–2 | 2nd (5) | did not qualify | [26] | ||
League1 Alberta team
| Season | League | Teams | Record | Rank | Playoffs | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | League1 Alberta Exhibition Series | 5 | 5–0–3 | 3rd | did not qualify | |
| 2024 | League1 Alberta | 7 | 5–1–6 | 5th | — | |
| 2025 | 8 | 10–0–3 | 2nd | — |
